BUSINESS AND SUSTAINABILITY, 1E
Author: Michael Blowfield
ISBN: 978-0198846680
Price: Rs. 800.00 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition
Book Overview
Business and sustainability is the first textbook to offer students a comprehensive overview of how the worlds sustainability challenges are affecting, and being affected by, business. Climate change, the resource constrained economy, and sustainability in general are amongst the hottest and most problematic topics for contemporary businesses. This textbook has been written specifically to cater for the growing number of courses and modules focused on sustainability in the business context. Through a mix of practitioner and theoretical perspectives, the author offers an insightful review of the subject across three core areas: The global business context, business management and ownership, and the external environment. Each of these areas contains chapters on particular aspects of sustainability and management, and draws from a range of global case studies and exercises. Key features written specifically for both undergraduate and postgraduate students studying business and sustainability provides an objective, comprehensive overview of different strands of thought contains original analysis and examples of sustainability as it is practised and encountered by business, including guidance on how to use materials each Chapter offers a consistent, learning-oriented structure and includes snapshots of business, discussion points for use in Class, end-of-chapter questions and assignments, key concepts, and case studies provides a one-stop shop for students and lecturers working in this area at undergraduate and postgraduate levels online resources for students: web links featuring links to company sustainability initiatives and sustainability organisations. Lecturer resources: teaching suggestions for the case studies from the book. Power point slides links to films, online videos, and other audio-visual resources, with teaching notes. Electronic versions of figures and diagrams from the book table of Contents section one - The global context 1: Business and sustainability overview 2: The sustainability challenges confronting business 3: Business in a resource constrained world section two - managing sustainability 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 competencies section three - The external environment 10: governance 11: sustainable consumption and production 12: looking to the future major case studies.
Browse this title within our Social Sciences and Education collection. Edition details: Images in this review, English, 392 pages. Reference ISBN: 978-0198846680.
About the Author
Michael Blowfield, Senior Research Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University; Teaching Fellow in Corporate Responsibility, London Business School; Visiting Professor, University of Middlesex Business School. His textbook Corporate Responsibility, also published by OUP and co-authored with Alan Murray, won the CMI/British Library Management and Leadership Textbook of the Year award 2011/12.
Book Specifications & Quick Facts
- Reading Level
- Students & Academic Researchers
- Language & Format
- English • Images in this review
- ISBN Reference
- 978-0198846680
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- Oxford University Press
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What is this book about?
Business and sustainability is the first textbook to offer students a comprehensive overview of how the worlds sustainability challenges are affecting, and being affected by, business. Climate change, the resource constrained economy, and sustainability in general are amongst the hottest and most...
Who should read this book?
Essential reading for students, entrepreneurs, and curious minds seeking practical life insights, productivity principles, and deeper intellectual perspectives.
Why Readers Pick This Edition
- You’ll love how this book makes sustainability practical, relevant, and impossible to ignore in today’s business world. Instead of abstract theory alone, it blends real global case studies with clear frameworks that help you see how climate change, resource limits, and ethics directly shape management decisions. Whether you’re an undergraduate or postgrad, it supports your coursework while building a mindset for responsible leadership you can actually use.
- Published by Oxford University Press.
- Language: English.
- Page count: 392.
Catalog Description
Business and sustainability is the first textbook to offer students a comprehensive overview of how the worlds sustainability challenges are affecting, and being affected by, business. Climate change, the resource constrained economy, and sustainability in general are amongst the hottest and most problematic topics for contemporary businesses. This textbook has been written specifically to cater for the growing number of courses and modules focused on sustainability in the business context. Through a mix of practitioner and theoretical perspectives, the author offers an insightful review of the subject across three core areas: The global business context, business management and ownership,...
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