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NEW RELEASE: Oxford Handbook on Business and the Natural Environment

  • 1.  NEW RELEASE: Oxford Handbook on Business and the Natural Environment

    Posted 11-29-2011 09:49

    The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment

    Edited by Pratima Bansal and Andrew J. Hoffman

     

    ISBN13: 9780199584451ISBN10: 0199584451 Hardback, 720 pages

    RELEASED: December 2011

    http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Business/Management/OrganizationalBehavior/?view=usa&sf=toc&ci=9780199584451

    Description

    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.

    Features

    • Sections on key areas of the business curriculum - Strategy, Policy, Organization Theory, Operations, Marketing, Accounting and Finance
    • Introductory chapter synthesizes and analyzes the individual chapters
    • Contributions from leading scholars in each discipline
    • Disciplinary focus enables reader to gain roadmap of developments in a specific field

    Table of Contents

    Part I: Introduction

    1. Introduction , Andrew J. Hoffman and Tima Bansal

     

    Part II: Business Strategy

    2. Competitive Strategy , Michael V. Russo and Amy Minto

    3. International Business and the Environment , Petra Christmann and Glen Taylor

    4. Environmental Entrepreneurship , Mike Lenox and Jeffrey G. York

    5. The Value of Managing Stakeholders , George Kassinis

     

    Part III: Policy and Non-Market Strategies

    6. Industry Self-Regulation , Andrew King, Andrea M. Prado and Jorge Rivera

    7. Environmental Governance , David P. Baron and Tom P. Lyon

    8. Business and Environmental Law , Cary Coglianese and Ryan Anderson

     

    Part IV: Organizational Theory and Behavior

    9. Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions , Lisa L. Shu and Max H. Bazerman

    10. Intergenerational Beneficence and the Success of Sustainability Initiatives in Organizational Contexts , Leigh Plunkett Tost and Kimberly A. Wade-Benzoni

    11. Bringing the Environment into Organizational Culture , Jennifer Howard-Grenville and Stephanie Bertels

    12. Institutional Approaches to Organizations and the Natural Environment , Michael Lounsbury, Samantha Fairclough and Min-Dong Paul Lee

    13. Institutional Pressures and Organizational Characteristics: Implications for Environmental Strategy , Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel

    14. Social Movements, Business, and the Environment , Klaus Weber and Sara B. Soderstrom

     

    Part V: Operations and Technology

    15. Greener Supply Chain Management , Robert D. Klassen and Stephan Vachon

    16. Closed-Loop Supply Chains , James D. Abbey and V. Daniel R. Guide, Jr.

    17. Industrial Ecology: Business Management in a Material World , Reid Lifset and Frank Boons

    18. Information Systems, Business, and the Natural Environment: Can Digital Business Transform Environmental Sustainability? Nigel P. Melville , Nigel P. Melville

     

    Part VI: Marketing

    19. From Green Marketing to Marketing for Environmental Sustainability , Debra Scammon and Jenny Mish

    20. Why not Choose Green Consumer Decision Making for Environmentally Friendly Products|? Andrew Gershoff and Julie R. Irwin , Andrew Gershoff and Julie R. Irwin

    21. Using Market Segmentation Approaches to Understand the Green Consumer , Timothy M. Devinney

     

    Part VII: Accounting and Finance

    22. Sustainability and Social Responsibility Reporting and the Emergence of the External Social Audits: The Struggle for Accountability? Rob Gray and Irene Herremans , Rob Gray and Irene Herremans

    23. Environmental Management, Measurement and Accounting: Information for Decision and Control? Nola Buhr and Rob Gray , Nola Buhr and Rob Gray

    24. Corporate Environmental Financial Reporting and Financial Markets , Charles Cho, Dennis Patten and Robin Roberts

    25. Values-driven and Profit-seeking Dimensions of Environmentally Responsible Investing , Rob Bauer and Jeroen Derwall

    26. Environmental Risks and Financial Markets: A Two-Way Street , Jean-Louis Bertrand and Bernard Sinclair-Desgagne

    27. Corporate Decision Making, Net Present Value, and the Environment , Bryan Routledge

     

    Part VIII: Emergent and Associated Perspectives

    28. Corporate Social Responsibility , Krista Bondy and Dirk Matten

    39. Business, Society and the Environment , James E. Post

    30. The New Corporate Environmentalism and the Symbolic Management of Organizational Culture , Linda C. Forbes and John M. Jermier

    31. Critical Perspectives on Business and the Natural Environment , Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee

    32. Approaching Business and the Environment with Complexity Theory , David L. Levy and Benyamin B. Lichtenstein

     

    Part IX: Future Perspectives

    33. Beyond the Brave New World: Business for Sustainability , John R. Ehrenfeld

    34. Looking Back, Thinking Forward: Distinguishing Between Weak and Strong Sustainability , Nigel Roome

    35. Enterprise Sustainability 2.0: Aesthetics of Sustainability , Paul Shrivastava

    36. Tomorrow s C-Suite Agenda , John Elkington and Charmain Love

    37. The Third-Generation Corporation , Stuart L. Hart

    38. Capitalism Critique: Systemic Limits On Business Harmony With Nature , Thomas N. Gladwin

     

     

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    Andrew J. Hoffman
    Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise
    Director, Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise

    University of Michigan
    701 Tappan Street, R4472
    Ann Arbor, MI 48109
    Phone: 734.763.9455
    Fax: 734.764.2555
    Email: ajhoff@umich.edu
    Twitter: @HoffmanAndy
    Web: http://www.andrewhoffman.net/
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