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Grant Ledgerwood - Greening the Boardroom: Corporate Governance and Business Sustainability - 9781874719021 - V9781874719021
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Greening the Boardroom: Corporate Governance and Business Sustainability

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Description for Greening the Boardroom: Corporate Governance and Business Sustainability Hardcover. 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. Editor(s): Ledgerwood, Grant. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: KJG; KJMV; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 520.

On a world scale, the implicit deal between corporation and community is undergoing a revolution in the period 1990–2000. For the first time, corporate boardrooms are having to confront the environmental challenge not as a peripheral issue around "public relations", but as a core issue of credibility with its customers. As trust in big business has declined, consumer willingness to alter buying behaviour to register disapproval has accelerated. As a result, boardrooms in the largest companies are having to redraw their strategic procedures regarding the environment.

This book aims to advance the general understanding of corporate environmental governance as an ... Read more

To date, the "business and environment" strategic conversation has reached only a minute proportion of a global audience. Over the next twenty years, this dialogue will transform business into the 21st century. Moreover, it will become internalised into a way of working within Corporate Culture. Greening the Boardroom explores through case studies and surveys some of the changes in this process, in Europe as well as in Asia and North America.

Suitable for readers in general management, business, government and academia, this book is an important contribution to the corporate environmental debate by the author of The Environmental Audit and Business Strategy: A Total Quality Approach.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Greenleaf
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Saltaire, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781874719021
SKU
V9781874719021
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-4

Reviews for Greening the Boardroom: Corporate Governance and Business Sustainability
"The increasing globalisation of business and the drive to apply uniform standards across boundaries sets all of us new challenges...examples of how other companies have tracked such issues are particularly welcome, and...this book will providevaluable input for many companies.' Sir Anthony Cleaver, Chairman, AEA Technology plc, UK. 'This book will...focus debate on corporate environmental governance and...provide some clues on what ... Read more

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