The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment

Author: Andrew J. Hoffman, Pratima Bansal

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

GBP 95.00

Environmental issues now loom large on the social, political, and business agenda. Over the past four decades, “corporate environmentalism” has emerged and been constantly redefined, from regulatory compliance to more recent management conceptions such as “pollution prevention”, “total quality environmental management”, “industrial ecology”, “life cycle analysis”, “environmental strategy”, “environmental justice,” and, most recently, “sustainable development.”

As a result, understanding the intersection of business activity and environmental protection has become increasingly complex, and there has emerged a focus in academic research on business decision-making, firm behavior, and the protection of the natural environment. This Handbook reviews the state of the field as it grows into a mature area of study within management science, its achievements, and its future avenues of research. It brings together original contributions in the field along several lines of enquiry. The first six focus on disciplines as delineated in contemporary business schools: business strategy; policy and non-market strategies; organizational theory and behavior; operations and technology; marketing; and accounting and finance. The seventh section reviews emergent and associated perspectives, whilst a concluding section, written by long-standing leaders in the field, discusses the future outlook for research.

Table of Contents:

Part I: Introduction

1 Introduction

Part II: Business Strategy

2 Competitive Strategy

3 International Business and the Environment

4 Environmental Entrepreneurship

5 The Value of Managing Stakeholders

Part III: Policy and Non-Market Strategies

6 Industry Self-Regulation

7 Environmental Governance

8 Business and Environmental Law

Part IV: Organizational Theory and Behavior

9 Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions

10 Intergenerational Beneficence and the Success of Sustainability Initiatives in Organizational Contexts

11 Bringing the Environment into Organizational Culture

12 Institutional Approaches to Organizations and the Natural Environment

13 Institutional Pressures and Organizational Characteristics: Implications for Environmental Strategy

14 Social Movements, Business, and the Environment

Part V: Operations and Technology

15 Greener Supply Chain Management

16 Closed-Loop Supply Chains

17 Industrial Ecology: Business Management in a Material World

18 Information Systems, Business, and the Natural Environment: Can Digital Business Transform Environmental Sustainability? Nigel P. Melville

Part VI: Marketing

19 From Green Marketing to Marketing for Environmental Sustainability

20 Why not Choose Green Consumer Decision Making for Environmentally Friendly Products

21 Using Market Segmentation Approaches to Understand the Green Consumer

Part VII: Accounting and Finance

22 Sustainability and Social Responsibility Reporting and the Emergence of the External Social Audits: The Struggle for Accountability? Rob Gray and Irene Herremans

23 Environmental Management, Measurement and Accounting: Information for Decision and Control? Nola Buhr and Rob Gray

24 Corporate Environmental Financial Reporting and Financial Markets

25 Values-driven and Profit-seeking Dimensions of Environmentally Responsible Investing

26 Environmental Risks and Financial Markets: A Two-Way Street

27 Corporate Decision Making, Net Present Value, and the Environment

Part VIII: Emergent and Associated Perspectives

28 Corporate Social Responsibility

39 Business, Society and the Environment

30 The New Corporate Environmentalism and the Symbolic Management of Organizational Culture

31 Critical Perspectives on Business and the Natural Environment

32 Approaching Business and the Environment with Complexity Theory

Part IX: Future Perspectives