Business and sustainability / Michael Blowfield.

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Blowfield, Mick

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TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2013.Description: 363 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780199642984

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DDC classification:

338.927

Contents:

1. Business and sustainability overview -- 2. Sustainability challenges confronting business -- 3. Business in a resource-constrained world -- 4. Leadership, entrepreneurship and change -- 5. Strategy and execution -- 6. Innovation, planning and design -- 7. Financing sustainability -- 8. Cooperation, collaboration and partnership -- 9. Next-generation competences -- 10. Governance -- 11. Sustainable consumption and production -- 12. Looking to the future.

Summary: Climate change, the resource constrained economy, and sustainability in general are amongst the hottest and most problematic topics in contemporary business today. Increasingly, new enterprises are being established to address key twenty-first century environmental challenges, incumbent industries are implementing new strategies to comply with stringent legislation to retain their licenses, and multi-nationals are endeavouring to link tackling issues from poverty to deforestation to their bottom line.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Business and sustainability overview --
2. Sustainability challenges confronting business --
3. Business in a resource-constrained world --
4. Leadership, entrepreneurship and change --
5. Strategy and execution --
6. Innovation, planning and design --
7. Financing sustainability --
8. Cooperation, collaboration and partnership --
9. Next-generation competences --
10. Governance --
11. Sustainable consumption and production --
12. Looking to the future.

Climate change, the resource constrained economy, and sustainability in general are amongst the hottest and most problematic topics in contemporary business today. Increasingly, new enterprises are being established to address key twenty-first century environmental challenges, incumbent industries are implementing new strategies to comply with stringent legislation to retain their licenses, and multi-nationals are endeavouring to link tackling issues from poverty to deforestation to their bottom line.

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