The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment

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. Cover Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations List of Contributors PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Retrospective, Perspective, and Prospective: Introduction to The Oxford Handbook on Business and the Natural Environment PART II: BUSINESS STRATEGY 2. Competitive Strategy and the Environment: A Field of Inquiry Emerges 3. International Business and the Environment 4. Environmental Entrepreneurship 5. The Value of Managing Stakeholders PART III: POL ICY AND NON-MARKET STRATEGIES 6. Industry Self-Regulation and Environmental Protection 7. Environmental Governance. 8. Business and Environmental LawPART IV: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND THEORY 9. Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions 10. Intergenerational Beneficence and the Success of Environmental Sustainability Initiatives in Organizational Contexts 11. Organizational Culture and Environmental Action 12. Institutional Approaches to Organizations and the Natural Environment 13. Institutional Pressures and Organizational Characteristics: Implications for Environmental Strategy 14. Social Movements, Business, and the Environment PART V: OPERATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY. 15. Greener Supply Chain Management16. Closed-Loop Supply Chains 17. Industrial Ecology: Business Management in a Material World 18. Information Systems, Business, and the Natural Environment: Can Digital Business Transform Environmental Sustainability? PART VI: MARKETING 19. From Green Marketing to Marketing for Environmental Sustainability 20. Why not Choose Green? Consumer Decision Making for Environmentally Friendly Products 21. Using Market Segmentation Approaches to Understand the Green Consumer PART VII: ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE. 22. Sustainability and Social Responsibility Reporting and the Emergence of the External Social Audits: The Struggle for Accountability?23. Environmental Management, Measurement, and Accounting: Information for Decision and Control? 24. Corporate Environmental Financial Reporting and Financial Markets 25. Values-Driven and Profit-Seeking Dimensions of Environmentally Responsible Investing 26. Environmental Risks and Financial Markets: A Two-Way Street 27. Corporate Decision-Making, Net Present Value, and the Environment PART VIII: EMERGENT AND ASSOCIATED PERSPECTIVES. 28. The Relevance of the Natural Environment for Corporate Social Responsibility Research29. Business, Society, and the Environment 30. The New Corporate Environmentalism and the Symbolic Management of Organizational Culture 31. Critical Perspectives on Business and the Natural Environment 32. Approaching Business and the Environment with Complexity Theory PART IX : FUTURE PERSPECTIVES 33. Beyond the Brave New World: Business for Sustainability 34. Looking Back, Thinking Forward: Distinguishing Between Weak and Strong Sustainability. "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 fieldalong 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 andassociated perspectives, whilst a concluding section, written by long-standing leaders in the field, discusses the future outlook for research."--Provided by publisher