Christopher Wright

Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations (eBook, ePUB)

Processes of Creative Self-Destruction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity, a definitive manifestation of the well-worn links between progress and devastation. This book explores the complex relationship that the corporate world has with climate change and examines the central role of corporations in shaping political and social responses to the climate crisis. The principal message of the book is that despite the need for dramatic economic and political change, corporate capitalism continues to rely on the maintenance of 'business as usual'. The authors explore the different processes through which corporations engage with climate change. Key discussion points include climate change as business risk, corporate climate politics, the role of justification and compromise, and managerial identity and emotional reactions to climate change. Written for researchers and graduate students, this book moves beyond descriptive and normative approaches to provide a sociologically and critically informed theory of corporate responses to climate change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316408780
• Artikelnr.: 52965215

Autorenporträt

Chris Wright is a qualified accountant and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) with over 30 years' experience providing financial and IT advisory and risk management services. He worked for 16 years at KPMG, where he managed a number of IT due diligence reviews and was head of information risk training in the UK. He has also worked in a wide range of industry sectors including oil and gas, small and medium enterprises, public sector, aviation and travel.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Clive Hamilton
Acknowledgements
1. Climate change and corporate capitalism
2. Creative self-destruction and the incorporation of critique
3. Climate change and the corporate construction of risk
4. Corporate political activity and climate coalitions
5. Justification, compromise and corruption
6. Climate change, managerial identity and narrating the self
7. Emotions, corporate environmentalism and climate change
8. Political myths and pathways forward
9. Imagining alternatives
Appendix
References
Index.