Greening the Boardroom : Corporate Governance and Business Sustainability / Grant Ledgerwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ledgerwood, Grant, author.

Contributor:

Ledgerwood, Grant, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy.

Social responsibility of business.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor and Francis, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"On a world scale, the implicit deal between corporation and community is undergoing a revolution in the period 1990-2000. For the first time, corporate boardrooms are having to confront the environmental challenge not as a peripheral issue around "public relations", but as a core issue of credibility with its customers. As trust in big business has declined, consumer willingness to alter buying behaviour to register disapproval has accelerated. As a result, boardrooms in the largest companies are having to redraw their strategic procedures regarding the environment. This book aims to advance the general understanding of corporate environmental governance as an issue capable of separate and detailed analysis. It aims to provide not an overview, but a series of test cores into the generally unexamined issues surrounding the changing ethos of corporate action and environmental investment. To date, the "business and environment" strategic conversation has reached only a minute proportion of a global audience. Over the next twenty years, this dialogue will transform business into the 21st century. Moreover, it will become internalised into a way of working within Corporate Culture. Greening the Boardroom explores through case studies and surveys some of the changes in this process, in Europe as well as in Asia and North America. Suitable for readers in general management, business, government and academia, this book is an important contribution to the corporate environmental debate by the author of The Environmental Audit and Business Strategy: A Total Quality Approach."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

About the author; Copyright page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Corporate Environmental Governance; 1. Environmental Stewardship of the Planet: The New Premier League; 2. World Environmental Industries: Market Drivers, Developments and lmplications for Corporate Strategies; 3. Early Warning of Environmentally-Driven Market Changes: A Theoretical Approach and an Empirical Investigation; 4. Small Firms and Environmental Technology: An International Perspective; 5. Investing in Europe: Government Support for Environmental Technology

6. Real-Time Management and Environmental Telematics: Implications for Distributed Corporate Systems and Urban Regeneration7. Beyond the Green Wall: Rethinking the Environment for Business Advantage; 8. Rhetoric and Reality in the Greening of Organisational Culture; 9. Environmental Positioning for the Future: A Review of 36 Leading Companies in the Pacific Northwest Region of the United States of America; 10. Environment: What do Europe's Boardrooms Think?; 11. Consulting the Stakeholder: A New Approach to Envimnmental Reporting for IBM (UK) Ltd

12. The Global 500, Big Oil and Corporate EnvironmentaI Governance: How Shell Became Transparent in the 1990s13. The Parent Company's Role in Environmental Protection: Experiences in Developing Countries; Epilogue: Stakeholder Theoy and Corporate Environmental Governance: A Research Framework and Agendaf or the New Century; About the Authors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 20, 2014).

ISBN:

1-351-28346-4

1-351-28347-2

1-351-28348-0

9781351283489

OCLC:

1004027734