Frontmatter -- Vorwort zur 1. Auflage -- Vorwort zur 2. Auflage -- Inhalt -- 1. Einführung -- 2. Einordnung, Entwicklung und Fragestellung des situativen Ansatzes und der vergleichenden Organisationsforschung -- 3. Die Beschreibung formaler Organisationsstrukturen -- 4. Einflußgrößen...

1. Systems for disclosure -- 2. Corporate ratings and rankings -- 3. Organizational certifications -- 4. Philosophies of sustainability : the values and worldview behind a standard -- 5. Indicators and measurement systems -- 6. Greenhouse gas assessment and energy accounting -- 7. Water -- 8....

Schriften des Hugo Sinzheimer Instituts für Arbeits- und SozialrechtDer Klimaschutz ist eine der Kernfragen unserer Zeit. Aus der Pflicht zum Erhalt unserer natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen und der Unversehrtheit zukünftiger Generationen erwachsen dem Gesetzgeber Schutzpflichten, die potenziell...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is business's contribution to sustainable development. Today, corporate behaviour must not only ensure returns to shareholders, wages to employees, and products and services to customers, it must also respond to societal and environmental concerns. Local...

Corporate entities underpin most commercial and entrepreneurial activities in market-based economies and have contributed immensely to growing prosperity worldwide over recent decades. Increasingly, however, governments and regulatory bodies have realised that corporate entities ranging from...

Voluntary approaches include environmental agreements negotiated with industry and public programs which firms can volunteer to participate in. They are increasingly supplementing or replacing other environmental policy instruments, such as regulations, taxes and tradable permits

Measuring Innovation: A New Perspective presents new measures and new ways of looking at traditional indicators. It builds on 50 years of indicator development by OECD and goes beyond R&D to describe the broader context in which innovation occurs. It includes some experimental indicators that...