The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment

by Bansal, Pratima; Hoffman, Andrew J.

• ISBN13: 9780199584451
• ISBN10: 0199584451
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Pratima Bansal is Professor at the Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario, and Director of the Center 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 (U.S.) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan, a position that 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 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 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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
List of Tables	p. x
List of Abbreviations	p. xi
List of Contributors	p. xiii
Introduction
Retrospective, Perspective, and Prospective: Introduction to The Oxford Handbook on Business and the Natural Environment	p. 3
Business Strategy
Competitive Strategy and the Environment: A Field of Inquiry Emerges	p. 29
International Business and the Environment	p. 50
Environmental Entrepreneurship	p. 70
The Value of Managing Stakeholders	p. 83
Policy And Non-Market Strategies
Industry Self-Regulation and Environmental Protection	p. 103
Environmental Governance	p. 122
Business and Environmental Law	p. 140
Organizational Behavior And Theory
Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions	p. 161
Intergenerational Beneficence and the Success of Environmental Sustainability Initiatives in Organizational Contexts	p. 176
Organizational Culture and Environmental Action	p. 194
Institutional Approaches to Organizations and the Natural Environment	p. 211
Institutional Pressures and Organizational Characteristics: Implications for Environmental Strategy	p. 229
Social Movements, Business, and the Environment	p. 248
Operations And Technology
Greener Supply Chain Management	p. 269
Closed-Loop Supply Chains	p. 290.
Industrial Ecology: Business Management in a Material World	p. 310
Information Systems, Business, and the Natural Environment: Can Digital Business Transform Environmental Sustainability?	p. 327
Marketing
From Green Marketing to Marketing for Environmental Sustainability	p. 347
Why not Choose Green? Consumer Decision Making for Envirorrmentally Friendly Products	p. 366
Using Market Segmentation Approaches to Understand the Green Consumer
Accounting And Finance
Sustainability and Social Responsibility Reporting and the Emergence of the External Social Audits: The Struggle for Accountability?	p. 405
Environmental Management, Measurement, and Accounting: Information for Decision and Control?	p. 425
Corporate Environmental Financial Reporting and Financial Markets	p. 444
Values-Driven and Proflt-Seeking Dimensions of Environmentally Responsible Investing	p. 462
Environmental Risks and Financial Markets: A Two-Way Street	p. 482
Corporate Decision-Making, Net Present Value, and the Environment	p. 502
Emergent And Associated Perspectives
The Relevance of the Natural Environment for Corporate Social Responsibility Research	p. 519
Business, Society, and the Environment	p. 537
The New Corporate Environmentalism and the Symbolic Management of Organizational Culture	p. 556
Critical Perspectives on Business and the Natural Environment	p. 572
Approaching Business and the Environment with Complexity Theory	p. 591
Future Perspectives
Beyond the Brave New World: Business for Sustainability	p. 611
Looking Back, Thinking Forward: Distinguishing Between Weak and Strong Sustainability	p. 620
Enterprise Sustainability 2.0: Aesthetics of Sustainability	p. 630
Tomorrow's C-Suite Agenda	p. 639
The Third-Generation Corporation	p. 647
Capitalism Critique: Systemic Limits on Business Harmony with Nature	p. 657
Index	p. 675
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