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Environmental Challenges and Corporate Responses: Atmosphere -- Toxic chemicals and hazardous waste -- Freshwater -- Land -- Oceans -- Biotechnology and biological diversity -- Corporate response to specific environmental challenges -- Management responses. Theories of Corporate Greening: Ecological modernization -- The discourse of ecological modernization -- Ecological modernization theory -- Three key aspects of ecological modernization -- The sociology of management -- Rational choice theory -- Organizational theory -- Corporate culture -- Green economics and business -- Environmental economics -- The greening of business -- Business ethics and the environment. Corporate Management of Environmental Challenges: Corporate environmental management structures: Policies -- Summary of corporate policies -- Corporate environmental management structures: Programmes -- Sustainable development issues -- Summary of corporate environmental management structures -- Corporate environmental management styles -- Compliance oriented management -- Preventive management -- Strategic environmental management -- Sustainable development management -- Summary of corporate environmental management styles. An Analysis of Two Corporations with a Traditional Corporate Culture: ARCO Chemical Company -- Environmental policy -- Environmental record -- Summary: ARCO Chemical Company -- Shell -- Environmental policy -- Environmental record -- Summary: Shell. An Analysis of Two Corporations with a 'Social-environmental' Corporate Culture: The Body Shop -- Environmental policy -- Environmental record -- Summary: The Body Shop -- Ben & Jerry's -- Environmental policy -- Environmental record -- Summary: Ben & Jerry's. Greening the Corporation: Shades of Green:Ecological modernization as institutional learning -- Ecological modernization as technocratic project -- Ecological modernization as cultural politics -- Structures, styles and cultures -- Implications for further study -- Policy implications. "In this book, Robbins examines traditional and social-environmental corporate cultures, green management styles, environmental regulatory systems in North America, Europe and Asia and social auditing."--Jacket. |
