1st Edition
Greening the Corporation Management Strategy and the Environmental Challenge
By Peter Thayer Robbins
Copyright 2001
216 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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Corporate responses to environmental challenges are often held directly or indirectly responsible for significant worldwide environmental destruction. Corporations are beginning to respond to environmental and social concerns and are taking these into account. This process, known as the greening of the corporation is fraught with contradictions since the foremost aim of corporations is to earn... Read more
List of tables * Acronyms and Abbreviations * Acknowledgements * Preface * Environmental Challenges and Corporate Responses * Corporate Management of Environmental Challenges * An Analysis of Two Corporations with a Traditional Corporate Culture * An Analysis of Two Corporations with a 'Social-environmental' Corporate Culture * Greening the Corporation: Shades of Green * Endnotes * References * Index
Biography
Peter Robbins is a lecturer in sociology in the Institute of Water and Environment at Cranfield University.
'A well structured book written in an easily accessible style. It presents a welcome sociological view of the greening of corporations, using the theory of ecological modernization as a framework of analysis and explanation for corporate responses to the environmental challenge.' Business Strategy and the Environment Journal
