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This volume explores through case studies and surveys some of the environmental challenges for the corporate boardroom. Suitable for readers in general management, business, government and academia, it seeks to contribute to the corporate environmental debate.
List of contents
Foreword Per Grunewald, AB Electrolux, Sweden Introduction: Corporate environmental governance Dr Grant Ledgerwood, University of Greenwich, UK 1. Environmental stewardship of the planet: The new premier league Grant Ledgerwood 2. World environmental industries: Market drivers, developments and implications for corporate strategies Patrick ten Brink and Richard Haines 3. Early warning of environmentally-driven market changes: A theoretical approach and an empirical investigation Ulrich Steger and Matthias Winter 4. Small firms and environmental technology: An international perspective Jorma Heinonen 5. Investing in Europe: Government support for environmental technology Keith Clement 6. Real-time management and environmental telematics: Implications for distributed corporate systems and urban regeneration Steve Perham and Grant Ledgerwood 7. Beyond the green wall: Rethinking the environment for business advantage Robert D. Shelton and Jonathan B. Shopley 8. Rhetoric and reality in the greening of organisational culture Andrew Crane 9. Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America Monica Scallon and Mark J. Sten 10. Environment: What do Europe's boardrooms think? Dion Vaughan, Paul Scott and Craig Mickle 11. Consulting the stakeholder: A new approach to environmental reporting for IBM (UK) Ltd Patrick ten Brink, Richard Haines, Stephen Owen, David Smith and Brian Whitaker 12. The Global 500, big oil and corporate environmental governance: How Shell became transparent in the 1990s Grant Ledgerwood 13. The parent company's role in environmental protection: experiences in developing countries Hiroshi Sato Epilogue: Stakeholder theory and corporate environmental governance: A research framework and agenda for the new century Grant Ledgerwood
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Ledgerwood, Grant
