Though the scientific community largely agrees that climate change is underway, debates about this issue remain fiercely polarized. These conversations have become a rhetorical contest, one where opposing sides try to achieve victory through playing on fear, distrust, and intolerance. At its...

In response to the threats posed by climate change, water scarcity and other emerging environmentalissues, corporations have prioritized sustainability as a core business issue. Many companies havelearned that sustainability represents a distinct competitive opportunity, but not all companies...

Private equity firms have recently become a target for both social and environmental activists,who see financial engineering and cost cutting in companies purchased by these firms asdetrimental to the companies and society as a whole. However, the private equity space holds atremendous amount of...

This paper presents a statistical model that quantifies the influence of various stakeholders on chemical manufacturing companies’ environmental performance. We based the model on a framework outlined by Andrew Hoffman in Competitive Environmental Strategy: A Guide to the Changing Business...

Executive SummaryClimate change is now a bright, blinking issue on the radar screens of companiesworldwide. Companies have started addressing climate change for a myriad ofreasons – reasons as diverse as their respective business models. Theacademic and business literature has done a fairly...

By framing the economics versus environment debate as a mixed-motive situation, opportunities become visible that allow greater benefits to all interests in the debate. Yet, social, cultural, and institutional arrangements frame how these interests see these opportunities, creating a barrier to...