Stakeholders, the environment, and society

The role of stakeholders is integral to corporate sustainability as society increasingly demands that corporations play a role in achieving environmental objectives in addition to building shareholder wealth. In the first book to gather cutting-edge research on the interactions between stakeholders...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Starik, Mark
Other Authors: Sharma, Sanjay
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, U.K Edward Elgar c2004
Series:New perspectives in research on corporate sustainability
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Collection: Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:The role of stakeholders is integral to corporate sustainability as society increasingly demands that corporations play a role in achieving environmental objectives in addition to building shareholder wealth. In the first book to gather cutting-edge research on the interactions between stakeholders and organizations within the context of corporate sustainability, the contributors to this volume provide a diversity of perspectives from North America, Europe, and Oceania
1. Stakeholders, the environment and society : multiple perspectives, emerging consensus -- 2. Stakeholders and the management of freshwater resources in New Zealand : a critical commons perspective -- 3. Influential environmental stakeholders : a grounded model of processes for effecting change -- 4. Stakeholder influence strategies for smarter growth -- 5. Toward stakeholder responsibility and stakeholder motivation : systemic and holistic perspectives on corporate sustainability -- 6. Who speaks for the trees? : invoking an ethic of care to give voice to the silent stakeholder -- 7. Managing organizational project risks of stakeholder demands in industrial investments -- 8. Organizational innovation as an opportunity for sustainable enterprise : standardization as a potential constraint -- 9. Contributions of product-oriented environmental management to corporate sustainability -- 10. Institutional pressure and environmental management practices -- 11. Environmental management systems and sustainability : a framework for understanding stakeholder influence -- 12. The ecological modernization of organizational fields : a framework for analysis
Physical Description:xv, 314 p ill
ISBN:9781843764595
9781845423629
1843764598