Greening the Corporation

Book description

Corporate responses to environmental challenges are often held directly or indirectly responsible for significant worldwide environmental destruction. Corporations are beginning to respond to environmental and social concerns and are taking these into account. This process, known as the greening of the corporation is fraught with contradictions since the foremost aim of corporations is to earn profits. Robbins analyses the approaches of four major international companies: ARCO Chemical; Ben & Jerry's; Shell; and The Body Shop.

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Tables
  7. Acronyms and Abbreviations
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Preface
  10. 1 Environmental Challenges and Corporate Responses
    1. Introduction
    2. Atmosphere
    3. Toxic chemicals and hazardous waste
    4. Freshwater
    5. Land
    6. Oceans
    7. Biotechnology and biological diversity
    8. Corporate response to specific environmental challenges
      1. Management responses
    9. Conclusion
  11. 2 Theories of Corporate Greening
    1. Introduction
    2. Ecological modernization
      1. The discourse of ecological modernization
      2. Ecological modernization theory
      3. Three key aspects of ecological modernization
    3. The sociology of management
      1. Rational choice theory
      2. Organizational theory
      3. Corporate culture
    4. Green economics and business
      1. Environmental economics
      2. The greening of business
      3. Business ethics and the environment
    5. Conclusion
  12. 3 Corporate Management of Environmental Challenges
    1. Introduction
    2. Corporate environmental management structures: Policies
    3. Summary of corporate policies
    4. Corporate environmental management structures: Programmes
      1. Sustainable development issues
    5. Summary of corporate environmental management structures
    6. Corporate environmental management styles
      1. Compliance oriented management
      2. Preventive management
      3. Strategic environmental management
      4. Sustainable development management
    7. Summary of corporate environmental management styles
    8. Conclusion
  13. 4 An Analysis of Two Corporations with a Traditional Corporate Culture
    1. Introduction
    2. ARCO Chemical Company
      1. Environmental policy
      2. Environmental record
    3. Summary: ARCO Chemical Company
    4. Shell
      1. Environmental policy
      2. Environmental record
    5. Summary: Shell
    6. Conclusion
  14. 5 An Analysis of Two Corporations with a ‘Social-environmental’ Corporate Culture
    1. Introduction
    2. The Body Shop
      1. Environmental policy
      2. Environmental record
    3. Summary: The Body Shop
    4. Ben & Jerry’s
      1. Environmental policy
      2. Environmental record
    5. Summary: Ben & Jerry’s
    6. Conclusion
  15. 6 Greening the Corporation: Shades of Green
    1. Introduction
    2. Ecological modernization as institutional learning
    3. Ecological modernization as technocratic project
    4. Ecological modernization as cultural politics
    5. Structures, styles and cultures
    6. Implications for further study
    7. Policy implications
    8. Conclusion
  16. Endnotes
  17. References
  18. Index

Product information

  • Title: Greening the Corporation
  • Author(s): Peter Thayer Robbins
  • Release date: September 2010
  • Publisher(s): Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781136534942