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Author : Vivek Pandey
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ISBN 13 : 9781303763458
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (634 download)
Download or read book Three Essays in Corporate Sustainability written by Vivek Pandey and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey M. Gauthier
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Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Corporate Sustainability and the Role of the Consumer written by Jeffrey M. Gauthier and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenge of sustainability has become an increasingly important concern for organizations. Sustainability raises new questions of legitimacy for organizations, compelling them to address stakeholder expectations of economic, environmental, and social performance. Although consumer stakeholders act as the ultimate arbiter of legitimacy for many firms, we know little about how consumers may influence corporate sustainability. This dissertation consists of three essays that examine the role of consumers in influencing corporate sustainability. The first essay examines how companies may attempt to manage sustainability ratings assigned by ratings agencies in an attempt to retain consumer stakeholder support. I argue that an understanding of cognitive choice models helps to reveal conditions under which firms may pursue improvements in sustainability performance in non-core practices rather than in core practices. The second essay is a quantitative analysis of corporate social performance in theU.S.insurance industry. With arguments grounded in the stakeholder salience framework of stakeholder theory, I argue that a firm's proximity to end-consumers will be related to specific dimensions of corporate social performance (community and diversity performance). Results of the study indicate that closer proximity to end-consumers (i.e., a greater percentage of revenues from end-consumers as opposed to businesses) is associated with stronger community and diversity performance. The third essay is a discourse analysis that examines how discourse is used to maintain legitimacy when consumer stakeholders' legitimacy concerns pose a threat to the firm's legitimacy. Drawing on rhetorical analysis and critical discourse analysis, I identify three themes (social, environmental, and economic) and three rhetorical justifications (ethos, logos, and pathos) in texts produced by Monsanto. I offer potential explanations for the relative frequency of themes and rhetorical justifications, and further identify taken-for-granted assumptions in Monsanto's texts. Taken together, these essays suggest that consumer stakeholders hold a significant role in influencing firms' actions, as well as the communication of those actions, regarding sustainability. More broadly, this dissertation reveals the insights that may be gained by foregrounding consumer stakeholders in management research.
Author : Zhao Yang
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Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Three Essays on Sustainable Growth and Environmental Control written by Zhao Yang and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the second essay, Rawls' "just saving principle" is fonnulated with a model for constant utility in an intergenerational allocation framework. A term comparing consumption of adjacent generations is added to the utility function. The model is analyzed in the context of optimal control theory. In a two-sector economy, consumption growth is incorporated with equity. This property removes the disadvantage that a society starting out poor will be in such poverty forever, which is inherent in the model of constant consumption with nonrenewable resources. Different forms of generalized Hartwick's Rule are obtained. Optimal consumption path is characterized to achieve the highest utility." --
Author : Cheryl Lynn Brown
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Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Three Essays on Issues of Agricultural Sustainability written by Cheryl Lynn Brown and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dale S. Rothman
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Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Three Essays on Environmental Economics written by Dale S. Rothman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald B. Marron (Jr.)
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Three Essays on Environmental Policy and Institutions written by Donald B. Marron (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays in Sustainable Operations Management with Implications for the Triple Bottom Line written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (939 download)
Download or read book See the Good, Speak the Good, Do the Good written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research provides a descriptive analysis of radical organizational change in the context of corporate adoption of sustainability policies. The study consists of three essays which focus on three different aspects of change towards sustainability. The first essay uses survey data from 922 senior-level executives and is aimed at understanding how the concept of sustainability is framed by organizations and their managers. By contrasting the practical application of sustainability principles with the varied academic definitions in the literature, this essay provides a further refinement on the theoretical understanding of corporate sustainability. Survey results demonstrate a widespread use of uni-dimensional definitions of sustainability, and there is evidence that size and ownership impact the dimensionality of managers' sustainability definitions. The second essay investigates how organizations determine the content of a change process. In particular, it tests whether the diffusion of a specific environmental practice implementation of environmental management systems is directed by institutional pressures. I argue that change may be suboptimal if the choice of change is driven by these institutional pressures rather than by firm specific contingencies. Therefore, this essay examines one mechanism by which action towards organizational change can fail to attain beneficial results for the organization. The study finds that institutional pressures do impact the adoption of environmental practices; however the direction of impact for mimetic pressures is in the opposite direction of that theorized. These results reveal some interesting differences between mimetic pressures for market versus non-market driven corporate objectives. The final essay analyzes the process and implementation of organizational change toward sustainability. Using a simulation methodology this essay studies how different change sequences impact the duration and performance of a change process. The simulations show that the sequence in which different organizational elements are changed does indeed impact the length of the period of organizational transformation. The results also demonstrate a relationship between sequence and a firm's ability to maintain or recover competencies during a period of transition. With these three essays, my dissertation captures the evolution of organizational change by analyzing; 1 how the need for change is framed, 2 what organizational elements are selected for adaptation, and 3 the order in which these elements are changed.
Author : Christopher R. Jeffords
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (795 download)
Download or read book Three Essays in Environmental Economics and Environmental Human Rights written by Christopher R. Jeffords and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bin Hu
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ISBN 13 : 9780494559291
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (592 download)
Download or read book Three Essays on Environmental and Resourceeconomics written by Bin Hu and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Three essays upon deeper environmental ethics written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elena Domene
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Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Three Essays on Urban Sustainability written by Elena Domene and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rong Zhou
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (942 download)
Download or read book Three Essays on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics written by Rong Zhou and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Koji Kotani
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Total Pages : 202 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays in Environmental Economics written by Koji Kotani and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eleni Stathopoulou
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Download or read book Three Essays in Green Technology and Environmental Policy written by Eleni Stathopoulou and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Garth Heutel
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics written by Garth Heutel and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Stuart Mill
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Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism written by John Stuart Mill and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
