Wayne Visser

The Quest for Sustainable Business (eBook, ePUB)

An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This treasure trove of a book is full of stories, ideas, best practices and tools for making sustainable business work in a myriad of different contexts, cultures and settings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351277624
• Artikelnr.: 49265945

Autorenporträt

Wayne Visser

Inhaltsangabe

Author's introduction Prologue: Roots and shoots. Early days (Zimbabwe)
PART I: AFRICA 1. Divided and united: Investing in change (South Africa) 2.
Holism and hope: Towards a SANE society (South Africa) 3. Governance and
greed: Accounting for impacts (South Africa) 4. Tears and flowers:
Recreating a culture of ethics (Kenya) 5. Friends and foes: Oil on troubled
waters (Nigeria) PART II: EUROPE 6. Directives and policies: Eurocrats take
on CSR (Belgium) 7. Green and growing: Re-engineering growth (Germany,
Austria)8. Breakdown and breakthrough: Navigating the chaos (Hungary) 9.
Partnerships and poverty: New governance for a new world (Switzerland) 10.
Cycles and cradles: Faster, further and higher (The Netherlands) PART III:
ASIA PACIFIC 11. Kaizen and kyosei: Driving a better future (Japan) 12. Yin
and yang: Striving for harmony (China) 13. Too much sun: A slow starter
(Australia) 14. Merlions and orang-utans: A new breed of entrepreneurs
(Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand)15. Access and justice: Purpose out of chaos
(India) PART IV: THE AMERICAS 16. Mythology and pathology: Unmasking the
corporation (Canada) 17. Plantations and houses: The lessons of shared
responsibility (Guatemala, Mexico) 18. Emergence and convergence: Birth of
a new capitalism (United States) 19. Globalisation and innovation:
Redefining growth and progress (United States) 20. Economics and evolution:
Barefoot journeys towards abundance (Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica,
Ecuador) PART IV: THE UNITED KINGDOM 21. Humans and ecology: From New Age
to 'new' economics (United Kingdom) 22. Meaning and change: Making a
difference (United Kingdom) 23. Research and reading: Landmarks for
Sustainability (United Kingdom) 24. Pioneers and paradoxes: In search of
sustainable business (United Kingdom) 25. Death and rebirth: From CSR 1.0
to CSR 2.0 (United Kingdom) Epilogue: Smart, shared and sustainable. The
alchemical quest