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Pollution and the Firm
ISBN: 9781858986395 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting new concepts of the marginal cost of substituting non-pollutive for pollutive goods, this book focuses on three main concepts: substitutions in consumption, emission abatement and exposure avoidance. Combining theories of the firm with a welfare economics approach, this title is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Presenting new concepts of the marginal cost of substituting non-pollutive for pollutive goods, this book focuses on three main concepts: substitution...
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600,74 |
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Global Aspects of the Environment
ISBN: 9781858987415 / Angielski / Twarda / 1200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a two-volume collection devoted to global environmental issues. It provides a variety of material from journal articles which are aimed at researchers and teachers of theoretical ecology, resource and environmental economics, industrial ecology and environmental science.
This is a two-volume collection devoted to global environmental issues. It provides a variety of material from journal articles which are aimed at res...
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2813,71 |
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Corporate Culture and Environmental Practice: Making Change at a High-technology Manufacturer
ISBN: 9781847201003 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative book explores from an insider's perspective a company's environmental decisions and actions. Based on close observation at a major semiconductor manufacturer, Jennifer Howard-Grenville details how the company's culture - revealed through its internal practices, decisions, and norms - guided action on environmental issues. While demonstrating gaps between the mainstream work of the company and the demands placed by environmental considerations, the author's analysis demonstrates how differences were negotiated over time, offering important insights into the processes of change...
This innovative book explores from an insider's perspective a company's environmental decisions and actions. Based on close observation at a major sem...
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498,05 |
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Environmental Regulation and Competitive Advantage: A Study of Packaging Waste in the European Supply Chain
ISBN: 9781840642599 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study focuses in detail on the environmental compliance/competitiveness relationship with respect to the regulation of packaging waste. It emphasizes backward and forward linkages. An entire supply chain is considered: packaging manufacturers and suppliers, food processors and the food retail sector, to study the competitiveness effects of environmental standards on manufacturing companies and the vertical links and supply responses. A variety of regulatory regimes is represented by including within the study companies from Germany, Italy, the Republic of Ireland and the UK. Analyses...
This study focuses in detail on the environmental compliance/competitiveness relationship with respect to the regulation of packaging waste. It emphas...
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693,16 |
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Corporate Governance of Sustainability: A Co-evolutionary View on Resource Management
ISBN: 9781847202284 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book considers corporate governance of sustainability from a co-evolutionary perspective. It explores the linkages between pro-active approaches at the corporate level, market-based incentives and environmental networks involving various actors. Relevant theory on corporate governance, competition, market failures and regulatory tools is also examined. The authors go on to present an assessment methodology suitable for empirical network analysis at the meso-level, and demonstrate its application using eight case studies. Based on the findings of this research Raimund Bleischwitz and his...
This book considers corporate governance of sustainability from a co-evolutionary perspective. It explores the linkages between pro-active approaches ...
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575,06 |
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Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility
ISBN: 9781847205612 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the concepts of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the context of globalisation and its many challenges, focusing on different legal perspectives that arise. Particular problems presented include the varied definitions of CSR and the related dilemmas of opting for a self-regulatory approach or a greater level of external regulatory control. The roles of the state and the market and how they interrelate are considered in this book against a background of increased intervention by international institutions. The potential contribution of individual citizens and...
This book examines the concepts of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the context of globalisation and its many challenges, focusing on differen...
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549,39 |
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Stakeholders
ISBN: 9781848447806 / Angielski / Twarda / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This landmark book takes a retrospective look at the most important and influential works in the study of stakeholders since Freeman's 1984 publication, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach. 2009 marked the 25th anniversary of this watershed in organizational scholarship, so now is an excellent time for Phillips and Freeman to revisit this topical and exciting subject.
This landmark book takes a retrospective look at the most important and influential works in the study of stakeholders since Freeman's 1984 publicatio...
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1596,83 |
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The Environment in Corporate Management: New Directions and Economic Insights
ISBN: 9781858989167 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text asks an important question about how the management of the environment may benefit firms. The authors take an objective, neutral perspective on the extent to which environmental issues should, or should not, be addressed within the management of business corporations. The work includes a treatment of business practices, norms and standards, using the tools of microeconomic and industrial organization analysis to provide an ordered and consistent picture. The analysis is couched within stakeholder theory, which determines how costs and benefits are defined for the firm. It also...
This text asks an important question about how the management of the environment may benefit firms. The authors take an objective, neutral perspective...
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713,70 |
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Handbook on Responsible Leadership and Governance in Global Business
ISBN: 9781843766360 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nineteen original contributions from international scholars explore the concepts of responsible leadership and governance and their application in the modern business environment. A sampling of topics includes leadership and the social construction of charisma; the influence of CEO transformational leadership on firm-level commitment to corporate s
Nineteen original contributions from international scholars explore the concepts of responsible leadership and governance and their application in the...
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1001,23 |
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Corporate Environmental Strategy and Competitive Advantage
ISBN: 9781845420055 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A major dilemma for businesses has been the struggle to understand how to adopt and implement proactive environmental practices while meeting the core business objectives of growth and competitive advantage. The international contributors - leading scholars in the field of environmental strategy and management - shed light on this difficult balance as they examine the generation and deployment of capabilities, processes, and routines that help a business develop advanced environmental practices while simultaneously lowering costs and creating differentiation benefits. The first book to gather...
A major dilemma for businesses has been the struggle to understand how to adopt and implement proactive environmental practices while meeting the core...
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641,81 |
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Sustainable Resource Management: Reality or Illusion?
ISBN: 9781845425944 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This provocative book examines the broad and complex conceptual issues that must be addressed in order to achieve sustainable development. It begins with several case studies that reflect innovative policy and strategic initiatives within the corporate and public sectors, followed by a sector-by-sector analysis of specific opportunities and challenges within the critical resource domains of energy and global climate, human health, fisheries, agriculture, biodiversity, and forestry. It concludes by discussing how to measure and assess national economic and corporate activity, and whether...
This provocative book examines the broad and complex conceptual issues that must be addressed in order to achieve sustainable development. It begins w...
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765,04 |
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The World Guide to CSR : A Country-by-Country Analysis of Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility
ISBN: 9781906093372 / Angielski / Twarda / 451 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The World Guide to CSR is the first book to provide comparable national profiles that describe the evolution and practice of Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility (CSR) for 58 countries and 5 global regions. Each regional and national profile includes key information about the relevant CSR history, country-specific issues, trends, research and leading organisations.
The World Guide to CSR is the first book to provide comparable national profiles that describe the evolution and practice of Corporate Sustainability ...
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707,28 |
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Private Institutions and Global Governance: The New Politics of Environmental Sustainability
ISBN: 9781847202314 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyses the recent emergence of transnational forms of environmental regulation within the larger conceptual context of global governance research and institutional theory. Increasingly, private policies at the transnational level complement, and in some cases even replace, public interventions. The author takes a deep and broad look at the phenomenon to account for both the emergence and the influence of private institutions in global governance and sustainability.
This book analyses the recent emergence of transnational forms of environmental regulation within the larger conceptual context of global governance r...
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559,66 |
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Getting it Right: Making Corporate-Community Relations Work
ISBN: 9781906093198 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A company begins exploration of future operations in a remote and rural area of a poor, but resource-rich country. The communities in this area welcome the company's interest, seeing the prospects for improved social and economic conditions. They look forward to the creation of jobs and other income opportunities, and they look forward to being connected to the outside world through the company.
A company begins exploration of future operations in a remote and rural area of a poor, but resource-rich country. The communities in this area welcom...
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195,06 |
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Strategic Sustainability : The State of the Art in Corporate Environmental Management Systems
ISBN: 9781874719618 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The last decade has seen increasing awareness of the importance of understanding corporate environmental management systems (EMSs) and their relationships with sustainability, competitiveness and institutional practice. It is now assumed that most large companies have some version of an EMS in place with systems ranging from informal policies and practices to formalised third-party certified systems that are widely publicised by companies and are now integral to their strategic direction. No matter what level and type of system a firm chooses, both practitioners and researchers wish to...
The last decade has seen increasing awareness of the importance of understanding corporate environmental management systems (EMSs) and their relations...
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302,37 |
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The Profit of Peace : Corporate Responsibility in Conflict Regions
ISBN: 9781874719908 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It may seem a strange notion to give the private sector a role in conflict prevention or resolution, but multinational corporations (MNCs) do have some characteristics that make them good partners in a well-designed strategy for peace and stability. By focusing on their core competencies, their presence in a conflict region can help to provide prosperity for rebuilding society and its institutions, and improved respect for human rights.
It may seem a strange notion to give the private sector a role in conflict prevention or resolution, but multinational corporations (MNCs) do have som...
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165,80 |
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Ants, Galileo, and Gandhi: Designing the Future of Business Through Nature, Genius, and Compassion
ISBN: 9781874719762 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although sustainability efforts in business are still a work in progress, it is increasingly clear that key elements of a new generation of enterprises will be radically different from those of our contemporary modern industrial economy. The core distinctions between what currently exists and what is being created are communicated in this book through the compelling metaphor of Ants, Galileo, and Gandhi.
This collection, developed from The Natural Step's conference on Sustainability and Innovation in 2002, provides radical ideas for generating a new perspective on the... Although sustainability efforts in business are still a work in progress, it is increasingly clear that key elements of a new generation of enterprise...
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536,56 |
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Ants, Galileo, and Gandhi : Designing the Future of Business through Nature, Genius, and Compassion
ISBN: 9781874719717 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although sustainability efforts in business are still a work in progress, it is increasingly clear that key elements of a new generation of enterprises will be radically different from those of our contemporary modern industrial economy. The core distinctions between what currently exists and what is being created are communicated in this book through the compelling metaphor of Ants, Galileo, and Gandhi.
This collection, developed from The Natural Step's conference on Sustainability and Innovation in 2002, provides radical ideas for generating a new perspective on the... Although sustainability efforts in business are still a work in progress, it is increasingly clear that key elements of a new generation of enterprise...
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165,80 |
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Industry Genius : Inventions and People Protecting the Climate and Fragile Ozone Layer
ISBN: 9781874719687 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents the inventive genius behind technological breakthroughs by ten global companies including Alcoa, DaimlerChrysler, Honda, ST Micro and Visteon. Readers will gain understanding and insight into how cutting-edge technology is helping protect the climate and/or the ozone layer, while contributing to the company's bottom line. Each chapter chronicles the challenge and triumph of invention, introduces the engineers and executives who overcome conventional wisdom, and demonstrates the contribution these companies are making to environmental protection. In full colour and crammed...
This book presents the inventive genius behind technological breakthroughs by ten global companies including Alcoa, DaimlerChrysler, Honda, ST Micro a...
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165,80 |
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Theories of Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9780415390255 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While sustainability has become a buzzword in discussions about the environment and development, work on theories of sustainable development has received much less attention. However, theory is vital as understanding the origins and development of the concept is the key to achieving successful implementation of sustainability. This book offers an interdisciplinary collection of research articles on the theories of sustainable development, drawing on a wide range of subjects including history, politics, governance, complex systems, economics and philosophy. It advocates viewing... While sustainability has become a buzzword in discussions about the environment and development, work on theories of sustainable development has re... |
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253,60 |
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