Peter N. Nemetz

Corporate Strategy and Sustainability

From Excellence to Fraud

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Produktbeschreibung

Corporate Strategy and Sustainability is a substantially updated, detailed overview of sustainability issues for business and economics students. Built to teach the evolution of the history of sustainability practices, this textbook is an ideal companion to instructors and students of sustainability in business, economics and management.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9780367773120
• ISBN-10: 0367773120
• Artikelnr.: 70600339

Autorenporträt

Peter N. Nemetz received a PhD in Economics from Harvard University and is Professor Emeritus of Strategy and Business Economics in the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia, Canada. For twenty-nine years he held a visiting research position in the Department of Health Sciences Research at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He has published more than one hundred books, academic articles, and consulting reports in the areas of natural disaster economics, natural resource and environmental economics and policy, international business, sustainability, and epidemiology. His most recent works include: The Economics and Business of Sustainability (Routledge 2022) and Unsustainable World: Are We Losing the Battle to Save our Planet? (Routledge Earthscan 2022).

Inhaltsangabe

PART 1: INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL Preface Chapter 1. Introduction and Context
Chapter 2: A Brief History of Corporate Response to Sustainability Issues
PART 2: SOME KEY CONCEPTS AND METHODOLOGY Chapter 3: Eco-efficiency,
Circular economy and other paradigms Chapter 4: Closing the Loop: Mimicking
Nature - Biomimicry and Industrial Ecology Chapter 5: Thinking Systemically
(I) Mass Balances and Industrial Metabolism Chapter 6: Thinking
Systematically (II) Life-Cycle Analysis Chapter 7: Thinking Systemically
(III): Carbon Accounting Chapter 8: Thinking Systemically (IV): LCA, Carbon
Footprinting and Input-Output Analysis PART 3: CASE STUDIES Chapter 9:
Waste to Profits. The Case of Consolidated Mining and Smelting Ltd. Chapter
10: Designing the Corporation of the 21st Century. Case Study of Interface
Inc. Chapter 11: MOWI - world leader in aquaculture - a questionable
solution Chapter 12: The Search for Innovative Business Models. Case Study
of Ooteel Forest Products Ltd. Chapter 13: Assessing Ooteel's Strategic
Options Chapter 14: Defining Sustainability and its Components. Case Study
of Suncor Ltd. Chapter 15: Volkswagen: a case study in corporate
malfeasance and recovery Chapter 16: Five short cases: Patagonia, H&M,
Walmart, Ford, fossil fuel companies PART 4: SPECIAL TOPICS Chapter 17:
Internalizing Sustainability into Corporate Strategy Chapter 18: Reforming
the financial system Chapter 19: Social Enterprise and the Social Return to
Investment Chapter 20: Corporate Culture and Leadership Chapter 21:
Afterword