Nach einer Umfrage des IFO-Instituts von 2002 schätzen sich nur 18% der deutschen Unternehmen als nachhaltigkeitsorientiert ein. Dagegen ist nachhaltiges Wirtschaften auf politischer Ebene mittlerweile eine allgemein akzeptierte Zielvorstellung und gewinnt für die Wissenschaft und den...

The need for management of the marine ecosystem using a broad perspective has been recommended under a variety of names. This paper uses the term Ecosystem Management, which is seen as a convergence between the ecological idea of an organisational hierarchy and the idea of strategic planning...

An increasing number of firms are adopting environmental management systems as a way of dealing with challenges from the natural environment. Many of these firms also decide to have their environmental management systems certified according to one or both of the available international...

Este trabajo repasa las dos principales ramas principales de la literatura empírica sobre cuantificación del impacto de la responsabilidad ambiental corporativa. La primera de éstas comprende varios estudios de eventos ambientales. Lo que se cuantifica son los retornos anormales que pueden...

This paper describes how market and technological change can be conceived to affect corporatist politics in the area of waste management. The paper adopts a political economy approach to in-stitutional change which seeks to trace the impact of market and techological change on estab-lished...