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The social embeddedness of industrial ecology

Boons, Frank (contributor); … - 2009

Most work on industrial ecology continues to emphasize its roots in engineering and the technological sciences. This book differs in that it explores the social context of industrial ecology and presents empirical work addressing how cognitive, cultural, political and structural mechanisms...

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Corporate environmental strategy and competitive advantage

Aragón Correa, Juan Alberto (contributor); … - 2005

The first book to gather cutting-edge research on this complex relationship, Corporate Environmental Strategy and Competitive Advantage presents conceptual ideas and empirical findings, as well as a valuable review of extant literature and future directions for researchers. At an organizational...

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Creating ecological value : an evolutionary approach to business strategies and the natural environment

Boons, Frank - 2009

Firms adopt a wide variety of ecological strategies, ranging from the development of innovative products with reduced environmental impact to lobbying against governmental attempts to set standards for the way in which firms deal with the natural environment. This book explores this variety and...

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Globalization and the global factory

Buckley, Peter J. - 2011

France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World, New York: Oxford University Press. -- Gereffi … Multinational Corporation', in Sumantra Ghoshal and D. Eleanor Westney (eds), Organization Theory and the Multinational Corporation …, Chapter 9, London, UK: Macmillan, 211-36, references -- William G. Egelhoff (1993), 'Information-processing Theory and the …

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Market-based instruments for environmental management : politics and institutions

Andersen, Mikael Skou (ed.); Sprenger, Rolf-Ulrich (ed.) - 2000

market-based instruments using case study experiences from the Nordic countries, Japan, France, The Netherlands, Germany and …

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Corporate governance and financial performance : a study of German and UK initial public offerings

Goergen, Marc - 1998

This important book presents a new original study of the German and UK financial markets. It addresses the relationship between corporate governance, ownership and financial performance in German and UK firms floated during the 1980s. Marc Goergen uses detailed company micro-data to examine the...

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Economic growth, material flows and the environment : new applications of structural decomposition analysis and physical input-output tables

Hoekstra, Rutger - 2005

Rutger Hoekstra examines the complex relationship between the monetary economy and the materials flows that are extracted and emitted by economic activities. These physical flows are responsible for many important environmental problems such as unsustainable resource depletion, waste production...

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Corporate technological competence and the evolution of technological diversification

Fai, Felicia M. - 2003

Drawing upon evolutionary economics and resource-based approaches, the author utilises US patent data from 1930-1990 to examine the persistence of corporate technological competencies and their gradual erosion through diversifying incremental change. The book explores the changing nature of this...

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Technological change and the environmental imperative : challenges to the copper industry

Brundenius, Claes (contributor) - 2003

Technological Change and the Environmental Imperative considers the extent of the success of polluting industries in becoming cost-efficient whilst acquiring less polluting technologies, in the face of fierce competition. The authors also discuss what has been the impact of privatisation on this...

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Choice modelling and the transfer of environmental values

Rolfe, John (ed.); Bennett, Jeff (ed.) - 2006

Benefit transfer is the practice of estimating economic values at a target site by utilising the results of existing studies for different sites. It is commonly used to estimate values for changes in environmental conditions where time and cost factors constrain the direct application of...

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