UID:
almafu_9961004405302883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 222 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781009116817
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1009116819
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9781009106733
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1009106732
Series Statement:
Organizations and the natural environment
Content:
There are as many ways for companies to improve their environmental performance as there are stakeholders who are calling upon them to do so. If companies make the right choices, they can satisfy their stakeholders, enhance their financial position, and help address the climate crisis. The wrong choices invite stakeholder scorn and risk wasting valuable resources. What problems do companies need to solve, and how can they solve them, to achieve the promise of shared value environmental performance? This book presents a framework for companies to design, develop and implement an effective environmental strategy that identifies environmental improvements, enables value exchanges with stakeholders, and improves competitive advantage. The step-by-step guide through this framework, illustrated with many examples, shows the promise of environmental initiatives that align with strategic opportunities and resources and the pitfalls of those that do not.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2023).
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Cover -- Half title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Environmental Impacts as Opportunities -- 1.2 A Framework for Environmental Strategy -- 2 Foundations and Background -- 2.1 Markets and Environmental Problems -- 2.2 Solving Environmental Problems -- 2.3 Companies, Environmental Impacts, and Stakeholder Exchanges -- 2.3.1 Environmental Stakeholders -- 2.3.2 Transaction Costs and Coasian Exchanges -- 2.3.2.1 Search and Screening Costs -- 2.3.2.2 Bargaining and Transfer Costs -- 2.3.2.3 Monitoring, Enforcement, and the Holdup Problem -- 2.4 Conclusion -- 3 Environmental Strategy Choices and Challenges -- 3.1 Search and Screening: Identifying Environmental Improvements, Costs, and Stakeholders -- 3.1.1 Identifying Supply: Environmental Impacts, Improvements, and Costs -- 3.1.2 Identifying Demand: Environmental Stakeholder Analysis -- 3.2 Bargaining and Transfer: Channels for Exchanging Value -- 3.2.1 Market Channels -- 3.2.1.1 Environmental Products and Services -- 3.2.1.2 Financial Channels: Investors, Lenders, and Insurers -- 3.2.1.3 Human Resources -- 3.3 Monitoring and Enforcement: Mechanisms for Credibility -- 3.3.1 Measurement and Reporting -- 3.3.2 Company Brands and Culture -- 3.3.3 Certifications -- 3.4 Market Environmental Strategies -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4 Nonmarket Strategy -- 4.1 Stakeholders and Institutions -- 4.1.1 Governments -- 4.1.2 People and Communities -- 4.1.3 Environmental NGOs -- 4.1.4 Companies -- 4.2 Institutions and Nonmarket Strategy -- 4.2.1 Engaging Environmental Institutions -- 4.2.2 Collaborating and Institutions -- 4.2.2.1 Nonmarket Strategy Case: Huawei Technologies and the Joint Auditing Cooperative -- 4.3 Conclusion -- 5 Environmental Strategy and Strategic Resources -- 5.1 Resources for Environmental Strategy.
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5.1.1 Assessing Environmental Impacts and Costs -- 5.1.2 Resources for Stakeholders Analysis Engagement -- 5.1.3 Channels, Resources, and Capabilities -- 5.1.4 Credibility and Resources -- 5.2 Organizational Structure and Human Resources for Environmental Improvements -- 5.2.1 Information and Incentive Problems for Environmental Improvements -- 5.2.2 Organizational Structure, Capabilities, and Sustainability within Companies -- 5.2.2.1 The Board of Directors and Senior Executive Management -- 5.2.2.2 CSOs and Sustainability Departments -- 5.2.2.3 Green Teams -- 5.2.2.4 Company Culture -- 5.2.2.5 Human Resource Capabilities for Sustainability -- 5.3 Conclusion -- 6 Green Products and Services -- 6.1 Strategy for Green Products and Services -- 6.2 Identifying Green Products' Environmental Benefits and Costs -- 6.3 Demand for Green Products -- 6.3.1 Co-benefits and Green Products -- 6.3.1.1 Functional and Quality Co-benefits -- 6.3.1.2 Emotional Co-benefits -- 6.3.1.3 Social Co-benefits -- 6.3.2 Complexities with Green Products and Their Co-benefits -- 6.3.3 Stonyfield's Yogurt and Its Benefits to Consumers -- 6.4 Channels for Selling Green Products -- 6.5 Green Lemons and the Credibility Challenge -- 6.5.1 Certifications -- 6.5.2 Co-benefits and Credibility -- 6.5.3 Branding -- 6.6 Conclusion -- 7 Employee Engagement -- 7.1 Employee Engagement and Companies' Environmental Performance -- 7.1.1 Environmental Improvements for Employee Engagement -- 7.1.2 Stakeholder Demand and Employee Engagement -- 7.1.3 Channels for Capturing Value -- 7.1.4 Credibility and Employees -- 7.2 EEE Programs -- 7.2.1 Environmental Problems for Engagement Programs -- 7.2.2 Employee Demand and Environmental Engagement Programs -- 7.2.3 The Value of EEE Programs -- 7.2.4 Credibility and EEE Programs -- 7.3 Conclusion -- 8 Environmental Groups.
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8.1 Environmental Groups and Sustainability -- 8.2 Environmental Groups and Their Strategy -- 8.3 Environmental Groups and Activist Campaigns -- 8.3.1 Targeting for an Activist Campaign -- 8.3.2 Nonmarket Stakeholders and Demand for Environmental Improvements -- 8.3.2.1 Activist Campaigns and Co-benefits -- 8.3.3 Channels: The Value Consequences of Activist Campaigns -- 8.3.4 Holdup Problems, Credibility, and Activist Campaigns -- 8.4 Partnerships between Companies and Environmental Groups -- 8.4.1 Environmental Problems for Partnerships -- 8.4.2 Demand and Partnerships: Environmental Groups and Their Stakeholders -- 8.4.3 Partnerships and Channels for Capturing Value -- 8.4.3.1 Partnerships' Contributions and Benefits -- 8.4.3.2 Contributions -- 8.4.3.3 Benefits -- 8.4.4 Credibility and Partnerships -- 8.5 Conclusion -- 9 Conclusion -- 9.1 Environmental Strategy Overview -- 9.2 Nike, Environmental Apparel, Production, and Design -- References -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009107334
Additional Edition:
ISBN 100910733X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009098991
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1009098993
Language:
English
