
Competitive Environmental Strategy
256 pages
8.5 x 11
256 pages
8.5 x 11
Environmental concerns can greatly affect business success, regardless of whether a business person or corporation shares those concerns. Today's corporate managers must understand the power of environmental issues, and shift their mindset from one focused on environmental "management" to one focused on strategy.
Competitive Environmental Strategy examines the effects of environmentalism on corporate management, explaining how and why environmental forces are driving change and how business managers can think about environmental issues in a strategic way. The author discusses:
Competitive Environmental Strategy offers a valuable overview of the subject, and provides a wealth of real-world examples that demonstrate the validity and applicability of the concepts for business people, clearly showing how managers are turning an understanding of environmental issues to competitive advantage.
List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes
Preface
PART I. A New Framework for Business Strategy
Chapter 1. From Environmental Management to Environmental Strategy
PART ll. Drivers of Environmental Protection in a Changing Business Context
Chapter 2. Regulatory Drivers
Chapter 3. International Drivers
Chapter 4. Resource Drivers
Chapter 5. Market Drivers
Chapter 6. Social Drivers
PART III. New "Rules of the Game"
Chapter 7. Altering Strategic Objectives
Chapter 8. Strategy Originates within the Organization
Chapter 9. The Organization Lies within a Broader Institutional Context
PART IV. Competetive Environmental Strategy
Chapter 10. Environmental Strategy in an Institional Context: Two Sectoral Studies
Chapter 11. Environmental Strategy and Sustainable Development
Appendix A. US Environmental Laws
Appendix B. Environmental Information Resources
Notes
About the Author
Index