Environmental issues now loom large on the social, political, and business agenda. Over the past four decades, "corporate environmentalism" has emerged and been constantly redefined, from regulatory compliance to more recent management conceptions such as pollution prevention, total quality environmental management, industrial ecology, life cycle analysis, environmental strategy, environmental justice, and, most recently, sustainable
development.As a result, understanding the intersection of business activity and environmental protection has become increasingly complex, and there has emerged a focus in academic research on business
decision-making, firm behavior, and the protection of the natural environment. This handbook reviews the state of the field as it grows into a mature area of study within management science, its achievements, and its future avenues of research. It brings together original contributions in the field along several lines of enquiry. The first six focus on disciplines as delineated in contemporary business schools: business strategy; policy and non-market strategies; organizational theory and
behavior; operations and technology; marketing; and accounting and finance. The seventh section reviews emergent and associated perspectives, whilst a concluding section, written by long-standing leaders in
the field, discusses the future outlook for research.
Environmental issues now loom large on the social, political, and business agenda. Over the past four decades, "corporate environmentalism" has emerged and been constantly redefined, from regulatory compliance to more recent management conceptions such as pollution prevention, total quality environmental management, industrial ecology, life cycle analysis, environmental strategy, environmental justice, and, most recently, sustainable
development.As a result, understanding the intersection of business activity and environmental protection has become increasingly complex, and there has emerged a focus in academic research on business
decision-making, firm behavior, and the protection of the natural environment. This handbook reviews the state of the field as it grows into a mature area of study within management science, its achievements, and its future avenues of research. It brings together original contributions in the field along several lines of enquiry. The first six focus on disciplines as delineated in contemporary business schools: business strategy; policy and non-market strategies; organizational theory and
behavior; operations and technology; marketing; and accounting and finance. The seventh section reviews emergent and associated perspectives, whilst a concluding section, written by long-standing leaders in
the field, discusses the future outlook for research.
Part I: Introduction
1: Andrew J. Hoffman and Tima Bansal: Introduction
Part II: Business Strategy
2: Michael V. Russo and Amy Minto: Competitive Strategy
3: Petra Christmann and Glen Taylor: International Business and the
Environment
4: Mike Lenox and Jeffrey G. York: Environmental
Entrepreneurship
5: George Kassinis: The Value of Managing Stakeholders
Part III: Policy and Non-Market Strategies
6: Andrew King, Andrea M. Prado and Jorge Rivera: Industry
Self-Regulation
7: David P. Baron and Tom P. Lyon: Environmental Governance
8: Cary Coglianese and Ryan Anderson: Business and Environmental
Law
Part IV: Organizational Theory and Behavior
9: Lisa L. Shu and Max H. Bazerman: Cognitive Barriers to
Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions
10: Leigh Plunkett Tost and Kimberly A. Wade-Benzoni:
Intergenerational Beneficence and the Success of Sustainability
Initiatives in Organizational Contexts
11: Jennifer Howard-Grenville and Stephanie Bertels: Bringing the
Environment into Organizational Culture
12: Michael Lounsbury, Samantha Fairclough and Min-Dong Paul Lee:
Institutional Approaches to Organizations and the Natural
Environment
13: Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel: Institutional Pressures
and Organizational Characteristics: Implications for Environmental
Strategy
14: Klaus Weber and Sara B. Soderstrom: Social Movements, Business,
and the Environment
Part V: Operations and Technology
15: Robert D. Klassen and Stephan Vachon: Greener Supply Chain
Management
16: James D. Abbey and V. Daniel R. Guide, Jr.: Closed-Loop Supply
Chains
17: Reid Lifset and Frank Boons: Industrial Ecology: Business
Management in a Material World
18: Nigel P. Melville: Information Systems, Business, and the
Natural Environment: Can Digital Business Transform Environmental
Sustainability? Nigel P. Melville
Part VI: Marketing
19: Debra Scammon and Jenny Mish: From Green Marketing to Marketing
for Environmental Sustainability
20: Andrew Gershoff and Julie R. Irwin: Why not Choose Green
Consumer Decision Making for Environmentally Friendly Products
21: Timothy M. Devinney: Using Market Segmentation Approaches to
Understand the Green Consumer
Part VII: Accounting and Finance
22: Rob Gray and Irene Herremans: Sustainability and Social
Responsibility Reporting and the Emergence of the External Social
Audits: The Struggle for Accountability? Rob Gray and Irene
Herremans
23: Nola Buhr and Rob Gray: Environmental Management, Measurement
and Accounting: Information for Decision and Control? Nola Buhr and
Rob Gray
24: Charles Cho, Dennis Patten and Robin Roberts: Corporate
Environmental Financial Reporting and Financial Markets
25: Rob Bauer and Jeroen Derwall: Values-driven and Profit-seeking
Dimensions of Environmentally Responsible Investing
26: Jean-Louis Bertrand and Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné:
Environmental Risks and Financial Markets: A Two-Way Street
27: Bryan Routledge: Corporate Decision Making, Net Present Value,
and the Environment
Part VIII: Emergent and Associated Perspectives
28: Krista Bondy and Dirk Matten: Corporate Social
Responsibility
39: James E. Post: Business, Society and the Environment
30: Linda C. Forbes and John M. Jermier: The New Corporate
Environmentalism and the Symbolic Management of Organizational
Culture
31: Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee: Critical Perspectives on Business
and the Natural Environment
32: David L. Levy and Benyamin B. Lichtenstein: Approaching
Business and the Environment with Complexity Theory
Part IX: Future Perspectives
33: John R. Ehrenfeld: Beyond the Brave New World: Business for
Sustainability
34: Nigel Roome: Looking Back, Thinking Forward: Distinguishing
Between Weak and Strong Sustainability
35: Paul Shrivastava: Enterprise Sustainability 2.0: Aesthetics of
Sustainability
36: John Elkington and Charmain Love: Tomorrow s C-Suite Agenda
37: Stuart L. Hart: The Third-Generation Corporation
38: Thomas N. Gladwin: Capitalism Critique: Systemic Limits On
Business Harmony With Nature
Pratima Bansal is Director of the Centre for Building Sustainable
Value and the Executive Director for the Network for Business
Sustainability. In 2008, she was awarded the Aspen's Institute
title of Faculty Pioneer for Academic Leadership. She also held the
title of Faculty Scholar from 2008-2010, awarded by the University
of Western Ontario. Her first co-edited book with Elizabeth Howard,
Business and the Natural Environment, took a disciplinary
perspective. She has sat on six different editorial boards and is
presently an Associate Editor for the Academy of Management
Journal. Her research has also been cited in the popular press
including The Independent,
The Wall Street Journal, The National Post, and the Globe and Mail.
She has also been awarded 13 research grants. Tima has been
researching social and environmental issues since she completed her
doctorate in 1996 at the University of Oxford.
Andrew J. Hoffman is the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable
Enterprise at the University of Michigan, where he holds joint
appointments at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the
School of Natural Resources & Environment. He also serves as
Director of the Frederick A. and Barbara M. Erb Institute for
Global Sustainable Enterprise and the Environment, University of
Oxford. He has written, edited, or contributed to ten books and
over ninety articles and book chapters on these
issues. He was awarded the 2011 Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship,
the 2009 Aspen Environmental Fellowship, the 2009 Manos Page Prize,
and the 2003 Faculty Pioneer/Rising Star Award. His book, From
Heresy to
Dogma, was awarded the 2001 Rachel Carson Prize from the Society
for Social Studies of Science. Andy serves on advisory boards of
the SustainAbility Council, Next Era Renewable Energy Trust, and
the Michigan League of Conservation Voters, as well as the
editorial board of Organization & Environment.
"... a good resource for business reference and presents a good starting point for anyone interested in studying how business affects and is affected by the natural environment." -- Ed Hahn, Weber State University
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