Global Sustainability as a Business Imperative [electronic resource] /
Stoner, J.editor.
This first volume in the series addresses the pressing need to align business practices with the requirements of a sustainable world. Delivering new models for conducting business, implications of undertaking new approaches, and ways businesses are transforming and being transformed by their environments.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. New models for globally sustainable businesses. How business, resources, and people fit together in a sustainability model / James A.F. Stoner and Charles Wankel. Business logic for sustainability / Aileen M. Ionescu-Somers. Sustainability as a business model / Wendy Stubbs. Investing in sustainable entrepreneurship and business ventures in the developing world : key lessons and experiences of the ecoenterprises fund / Tammy E. Newmark and Jacob Park -- pt. 2. Action implications : motivating and influencing business. Sustainability in business curricula : toward a deeper understanding and implementation / Blanca Luisa Delgado-Márquez, J. Alberto Aragón-Correa, and Nuria E. Hurtado-Torres. The contribution of interdisciplinary skills to the sustainability of business : when artists, engineers, and managers work together to serve enterprises / Vera Ivanaj and Silvester Ivanaj. Public disclosure of corporate environmental performance : pollutant releases and transfer registers (PRTRS) / Javier Delgado-Ceballos and Antonio Rueda-Manzanares. The adjustment of corporate governance structures for global sustainability / Natalia Ortiz-de-Mandojana, Javier Aguilera-Caracuel, and J. Alberto Aragón-Correa. Taxes and sustainability / John L. Stancil -- pt. 3. Business transformations of and by its environment. Why changing the way we use energy is essential for global sustainability / Richard H. Jones. From carbon to carbohydrates : toward sustainability in the plastics industry / Avrath Chadha. Informal waste-pickers in Latin America : sustainable and equitable solutions in the dumps / Candace A. Martinez. Sustainability of the wine industry : New Zealand, Australia, and the United States / Anatoly Zhuplev and Cynthia Aguirre. New trends for sustainable consumption : the farmer's market as a business imperative for the re-education of consumers / Alessio Cavicchi and Benedetto Rocchi. Participation of agribusiness stakeholders in global sustainability questions : the case of climate change and bioenergy of Brazil / Denise Barros de Azevedo, Eugênio Ávila Pedrozo, and Guilherme Cunha Malafaia.
This first volume in the series addresses the pressing need to align business practices with the requirements of a sustainable world. Delivering new models for conducting business, implications of undertaking new approaches, and ways businesses are transforming and being transformed by their environments.
Leadership.
Management.
Sustainable development.
Business ethics.
Development economics.
Industrial management—Environmental aspects.
Business Strategy/Leadership.
Management.
Sustainable Development.
Business Ethics.
Development Economics.
Sustainability Management.