Corporate environmental governance : perspectives on organizing and communication Upplaga 1

Corporate Environmental Governance brings together contributions that add to our under standing of how the natural environment and the quest for sustainability is institutionalized in organizational policies an d practices. The aim of this volume is to reflect upon current approac hes and to contribute to an agenda for studying the relatively new res earch field of organizations and the natural environment. In doing so, this book contri butes to conceptual as well as empirical approaches to studying how different organizations deal with issues of the natura l environment and sustainable development from an organizational and m anagement studies perspective.One central aim of this book is to prese nt a variety of approaches to studying the field of organizations and the natural environment. Some contributions are founded within manager ial and organizational economics perspectives, while others adopt a so cial constructivist approach. Readers will thus be presented with a ho st of issues concerning how environmental and sustainability managemen t works in real life, as well as different theoretical approaches to s tudying these issues. The book is intended primarily for graduate and post-graduate students, as well as researchers within organization, bu siness and social science research related to environmental issues. Ho wever, managers involved in organization and communication of environm ental and social issues could also benefit from reading this book.