Based on longitudinal data, collected over a period of 16 years, this paper addresses how management responds to stakeholders' concerns about the natural environment by prioritizing their activities and thus improving the environmental performability of the firms. The paper specifically seeks to...

To stay at the competitive forefront successful firms have for quite a while addressed environmental issues as part of their strategy. The competitive 'imperative' is however not restricted to large enterprises entirely. This paper reports empirical findings from a series of identical surveys...

During the last decades there has been an increasing focus on the firm-nature relationship. As a consequence some companies have started to take actions on a voluntarily basis whereas others have been forced to do it by introduction of legislation or economic regulation. This paper describes the...

Corporate environmental management turned into a more formulated concept and a new managerial discipline two to three decades ago. Many companies have fully or partly adopted the concept in their efforts to eliminate or reduce the impacts on the natural environment caused by their business...

Regulation has been an important instrument in pushing the business community towards im-proved environmental performance. However, there has also been increasing pressure from a growing number of stakeholders, including employees, customers, neighbours and NGOs, etc. In order to improve...

The field of MoT cannot continue indefinitely to ignore the importance of the natural environment as a fundamental basis for technological development. This paper will therefore focus on the various linkages between management of technology and sustainable development, discussing both the...

Corporate environmental management have gradually developed into a more mature discipline during the past two to three decades. Many companies have in varying degrees adopted environmental considerations into their activities to eliminate or reduce the impacts on the natural environment caused...