Enhancing global competitiveness through sustainable environmental stewardship
By: edited by Subhash C. Jain and Ben L. Kedia
Contributors: University of Connecticut. Center for International Business Education and Research; Wang Center for International Business Education and Research
Series: New horizons in international business; New horizons in international business
Publisher: Edward Elgar; Edward Elgar Publishing; Brand: Edward Elgar Pub; Edward Elgar Pub
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781848448742
Subjects: International business enterprises; Climatic changes; Congresses; Business; Sustainable development; Social responsibility of business; Competition
Notes: Papers from a conference organized by the Centers for International Business Education and Research (CIBERs) at the University of Connecticut and the University of Memphis, held in Storrs, Conn., May 14-16, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Climate change and global business : challenges, opportunities and research guidelines / Subhash C. Jain; title: Sustainable enterprises : addressing management challenges in the twenty-first century / Paul Shrivastava and Raymond Paquin; title: Globalization, environmental sustainability, and system equilibrium / John Alexander; title: Institutions, MNEs, and sustainable development / Ben L. Kedia, Jack Clampit and Nolan Gaffney; title: The effect of technology type on the adoption and effectiveness of global environmental standards / Glen Dowell and Ben Lewis; title: The Global Reporting Initiative : collaboration and conflict in the development of non-financial reporting / David L. Levy and Halina Szejnwald Brown; title: Driving to distraction or disclosure? : shareholder activism, institutional investors and firms' environmental transparency / R. Scott Marshall, Darrell Brown and Marlene Plumlee; title: Dynamic networks and successful social action : a theoretical framework to examine the Coca-Cola controversy in Kerala, India / Sridevi Shivarajan; title: How can sustainable environmental stewardship enhance global competitiveness? / Irene Henriques.