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Price: $175.00

Format:
Hardback 736 pp.
171 mm x 246 mm

ISBN-10:
0199584451

ISBN-13:
9780199584451

Publication date:
December 2011

Imprint: OUP UK

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The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment

Edited by Pratima Bansal and Andrew J. Hoffman

Series : Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management

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.

Readership : Academics, researchers, and graduate students in Business, Management, Environmental Studies, and Environmental Protection.

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

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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 holds joint appointments at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the School of Natural Resources & Environment. He also serves as Associate Director of the Frederick A. and Barbara M. Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise and was a Visiting Fellow at the Smith School of 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 2003 Faculty Pioneer/Rising Star award from the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute. 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 Michigan League of Conservation Voters, TRIRIGA Software Solutions, Earth Portal, Center for Environmental Innovation, and Canopy Partnership, as well as the editorial board of Organization & Environment.

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Special Features

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