Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business

We have entered a new era where business, technologies, communities, and even pandemic deceases cross borders with unprecedented speed and intensity.

This book presents the current causes and effects of implementing sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) as well as green supply chain management (GSCM) strategies in the automotive industry.

This book analyses from a management perspective how the aviation industry can achieve a sustainability transformation in order to reach the Paris climate targets for 2050 and provides various strategic and operational recommendations in this regard.

This book explores the importance of the agriculturally-based fiber and textile industry, and how local, small-scale operations and markets, coupled with a connection to soil health, can lead the way to new transformative changes.

This edited book aims to ignite both an academic and practitioner-oriented discussion regarding the question how the business and government sector can adapt to today's fast-changing climate.

Shared value is a management strategy in which companies find business opportunities in social problems.

This book explores the history of social impact measurement, offering justifications for the use of social impact measurement in modern society.

This book explores the interaction between sustainability, corporate responsibility, consumers, and the market.

This book contains a collection of studies on the interactions between businesses in Africa and Global Value Chains (GVCs) in terms of social, environmental and economic sustainability.

This book is about the stories being told in the Anthropocene.

Can innovations in business change society?

This book provides a clear, critical, and timely analysis of the state of corporate sustainability within the context of the climate crisis.

This volume examines the importance of leadership in developing an effective sustainability strategy.

This book seeks to understand how society and businesses are affected by, and respond to, the coronavirus crisis in various parts of the world.

As environmental legislation grows more stringent in response to the escalating climate crisis, some of the world's largest corporations have adopted fraudulent mechanisms to keep their margins of profit, and achieve improper competitive advantage.

The purpose of this book is to study the association of corporate environmental responsibility (CER) with financial performance, capital structure, innovative activities, corporate risk, working capital management and accounting quality.

This book discusses corporate citizenship, corporate responsibility and business ethics across Africa generally, and Botswana specifically.

This book addresses the status quo of Corporate Social Responsibility practices and their development since 2008.

This book presents scheduling with a medium- and short-term focus, which makes it possible to capitalize on fleeting market opportunities while simultaneously working to reconcile economic and environmental priorities.

The rise of sustainability has swept away the traditional views about firms' competitiveness, survival and profitability, advocating new approaches.

Since the process of liberalization and opening of markets in the 1990s, the emerging markets have created a thriving culture of entrepreneurship, creativity and global collaboration.

Sustainable development and corporate social responsibility drive countries, regions, and businesses to take environmental and social concerns into account when realizing economic objectives.

The phrase "e;greening of the workplace"e; refers to the range of resources used by an organization to ensure its management and industrial processes are conducive to the adoption of workplace pro-environmental behaviors by its employees, irrespective of their position, the nature of their work or their rank within the organization.

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This book examines the role of intangible assets (IA) in companies and countries for achieving sustainable economic growth.

In this book we capture and explore different aspects of value in corporate social responsibility (CSR).

Despite the progress made so far, the links between environmental, social and governance (ESG) sustainability pillars remain underexplored, particularly in the context of firms investing in hydrogen for decarbonization.

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to corporate social responsibility (CSR), examining economic sciences and managements to show the complexity of the contemporary perception and development of CSR in Poland.

This book aims to cover the multitude of corporate approaches towards mainstreaming biodiversity conservation and ecological management in policies and action plans, and explores the roles of these efforts in achieving national and global targets for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This book is a first step towards understanding the complexity of corporate environmental strategy while explaining the relationships between the numerous dimensions of the concept.

This book covers state-of-the-art technologies, principles, methods and industrial applications of electronic waste (e-waste) and waste PCB (WPCB) recycling.

This edited book assesses the impacts of various extreme weather events on human health and development from a global perspective, and includes several case studies in various geographical regions around the globe.

This book provides a business-oriented analysis of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

This book discusses the concept of sustainability valuation, a method in which corporate social responsibility (CSR) among other factors is embedded in the cash value of a given firm.

This book addresses key aspects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and explores them from a variety of perspectives in a case study on the Marange diamond mines in Zimbabwe.

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of how local corporate water strategies influence global water governance objectives.

This book provides a rich collection of essays discussing and showcasing the transformation of businesses around the world towards sustainability and responsibility.

This book critically examines the implementation and adoption of integrated reporting (IR) in organizations and corporations.

This book is a first step towards understanding the complexity of corporate environmental strategy while explaining the relationships between the numerous dimensions of the concept.

Modern capitalism has focused on profit maximization at the expense of non-renewable natural resources.

Sustainable finance involves making investment decisions that consider not only financial returns, but also environmental, social, and governance factors.

This edited volume brings together contributions from multiple experts in academia to explore the practical implications of the Net Zero Economy for corporate social responsibility and sustainable value creation in today's world.

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Managing Sustainability: First Steps to First Class provides a compelling case, real-world examples, and the tools to follow a proven strategy for aligning sustainability efforts with existing organizational priorities.

This timely and pivotal volume explores the nexus of a wide range of travel disruptions and their multifaceted implications on the global travel and tourism industry.

"e;A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation.

This book discusses various interactions in the sustainability and development sector.

A historic energy revolution is underway in the United States.

'Crucially, this book bridges a gap in our understanding of how different societal sectors can be united to define roles, identify shared interests and devise strategies that complement progress towards more sustainable material use.