Patient Capital: The Role of Family Firms in Sustainable Business

ISBN-13: 9781107123663 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 256 str.

Sanjay Sharma; Pramodita Sharma

Opis

Applies the family business lens to the exploration of corporate environmental strategy. Taking the wine industry as a case study, this book develops fresh insights into the balancing of short-term financial performance with long-term corporate strategies.

Recenzje

'This is a must read for anyone interested in sustainability management. Sanjay Sharma and Dita Sharma's book provides a very intriguing seminal contribution that helps to understand how family firms, from industrialized and developing countries, approach environmental sustainability. Family businesses represent the vast majority of firms around the globe both in terms of employees and economic output. Yet, most sustainability management research has ignored these firms, focusing instead on publicly traded companies from industrialized countries. Relying on rigorous in-depth case studies, this book proposes a comprehensive interdisciplinary framework identifying different drivers of greener business strategies. Their framework also shows that, given their greater longer-term orientation and values, family firms have a higher tendency to be greener than public firms. Overall, this is captivating book that will be of great interest to sustainability management scholars.' Jorge E. Rivera, George Washington University, Washington DC

Spis treści

1. Definitions; 2. Primary data: cases from the winery industry in Canada, France and Chile; 3. Exogenous drivers of corporate environmental strategy; 4. Organizational drivers of corporate environmental sustainability strategy; 5. Managerial drivers of environmental sustainability strategy; 6. Bringing the family into the corporate environmental sustainability strategy: implications for research, education and policy.