Stakeholders, the Environment and SocietySanjay Sharma, Mark Starik Edward Elgar, 2004 - 314 pages The role of stakeholders is integral to corporate sustainability as society increasingly demands that corporations play a role in achieving environmental objectives in addition to building shareholder wealth. In the first book to gather cutting-edge research on the interactions between stakeholders and organizations within the context of corporate sustainability, the contributors to this volume provide a diversity of perspectives from North America, Europe, and Oceania. The authors examine the role stakeholders play in influencing regulations on global issues such as climate change and national and regional problems. Stakeholder selection of companies and the sustainability issues they choose to target are explored, as are the ways in which organizations motivate them to participate in the evolution of holistic sustainable solutions. The interactions between stakeholder pressures, organizational characteristics and corporate sustainability practices are also covered. Finally, the volume provides an examination of the dynamic structure of organizational fields in the European automobile industry in order to analyze the factors that foster or hinder ecological modernization. Academics, environmental consultants, sustainability managers, NGOs, and international development institutions will find this timely volume of great value. |
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... users and institutions as holistic , self - regulating systems ( Ostrom 1990 ; Bromley 1992 ; Burger et al . 2001 ) . In the commons literature , resources such as water , fisheries and wildlife have been analyzed as common pool ...
... user's use diminishes other users ' ability to use them ) , it is difficult to exclude anyone from appropriating them , and effects of their use are dis- persed ( water pollution moves downstream ) ( Bromley 1992 ; Grima and Berkes 1989 ) ...
... user groups through a collective choice process that also respects the ecological integrity of the resources . At the regional level the method for protecting aquatic bio- diversity and providing for needs of other water users is by ...
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