Erfolgreiche Unternehmensführung basiert auf den Prinzipien ökologischer Nachhaltigkeit. Die Idee der Industrial Ecology, durch Kreisläufe Stoffströme umweltfreundlicher zu gestalten, funktioniert aber nur bei einer vertrauensvollen Kooperation zwischen Unternehmen. „Industrial Ecology...

In this book, a resource-oriented perception of sustainable management is presented. Firms that decide to act more sustainable have to bear in mind that they do not only need resources for economic activities today, but that they will need these tomorrow as well. This leads to contradictory...

Introduction -- The Essence for Quick Readers -- Understanding Sustainability: Sustainability and Society -- Quo Vadis, Environmental Management? -- Quo Vadis, Social Responsibility? -- Sustainability as Economic Rationality -- Theoretical Impulses: A Theory of Management Ecology -- Dominant...

Die Umsetzung eines nachhaltigeren Managements macht Unternehmensentscheidungen komplexer. Studierende und Führungskräfte lernen in diesem Buch, dass es insbesondere die Widersprüchlichkeit der Managementrationalitäten sind, die diese Komplexität verursachen. Sie äußern sich vor allem in...

We clarify the definition and interpretation of sustainability economicsʺ (Baumgärtner and Quaas, 2010) in response to recent comments by van den Bergh (2010), Bartelmus (2010) and others. For that sake, we distinguish between general and specific definitions of sustainability and...

While economists have been contributing to the discussion of various aspects of sustainability for decades, it is just recently that the term sustainability economicsʺ was used explicitly in the ecological, environmental, and resource economics community. Yet, the contributions that use the...

Strong sustainability, according to the common definition, requires that different natural and economic capital stocks be maintained as physical quantities separately. Yet, in a world of uncertainty this cannot be guaranteed. To therefore define strong sustainability under uncertainty in an...