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Global Sustainability as a Business Imperative

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. James A. F. Stoner

    1. Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business and Chairholder, USA

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  2. Charles Wankel

    1. St. Johns University, New York, USA

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Part of the book series: Global Sustainability Through Business (GSB)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. New Models for Globally Sustainable Businesses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. How Business, Resources, and People Fit Together in a Sustainability Model

      • James A. F. Stoner, Charles Wankel
      Pages 3-15

    3. Business Logic for Sustainability

      • Aileen M. Ionescu-Somers
      Pages 17-32

    4. Sustainability as a Business Model

      • Wendy Stubbs
      Pages 33-53

    5. Investing in Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Business Ventures in the Developing World: Key Lessons and Experiences of EcoEnterprises Fund

      • Tammy E. Newmark, Jacob Park
      Pages 55-71

  3. Action Implications: Motivating and Influencing Business

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Sustainability in Business Curricula: Toward a Deeper Understanding and Implementation

      • Blanca Luisa Delgado-Márquez, J. Alberto Aragón-Correa, Nuria E. Hurtado-Torres
      Pages 75-89

    3. The Contribution of Interdisciplinary Skills to the Sustainability of Business: When Artists, Engineers, and Managers Work Together to Serve Enterprises

      • Vera Ivanaj, Silvester Ivanaj
      Pages 91-109

    4. Public Disclosure of Corporate Environmental Performance: Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTRs)

      • Javier Delgado-Ceballos, Antonio Rueda-Manzanares
      Pages 111-125

    5. The Adjustment of Corporate Governance Structures for Global Sustainability

      • Natalia Ortiz-de-Mandojana, Javier Aguilera-Caracuel, J. Alberto Aragón-Correa
      Pages 127-146

    6. Taxes and Sustainability

      • John L. Stancil
      Pages 147-163

  4. Business Transformations of and by Its Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. Why Changing the Way We Use Energy Is Essential for Global Sustainability

      • Richard H. Jones
      Pages 167-181

    3. From Carbon to Carbohydrates: Toward Sustainability in the Plastics Industry

      • Avrath Chadha
      Pages 183-197

    4. Informal Waste-Pickers in Latin America: Sustainable and Equitable Solutions in the Dumps

      • Candace A. Martinez
      Pages 199-217

    5. Sustainability of the Wine Industry: New Zealand, Australia, and the United States

      • Anatoly Zhuplev, Cynthia Aguirre
      Pages 219-237

    6. New Trends for Sustainable Consumption: The Farmers’ Markets as a Business Imperative for the Reeducation of Consumers

      • Alessio Cavicchi, Benedetto Rocchi
      Pages 239-253

    7. Participation of Agribusiness Stakeholders in Global Sustainability Questions: The Case of Climate Change and Bioenergy in Brazil

      • Denise Barros de Azevedo, Eugênio Avila Pedrozo, Guilherme Cunha Malafaia
      Pages 255-268

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 269-276
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About this book

This first volume in the series addresses the pressing need to align business practices with the requirements of a sustainable world. Delivering new models for conducting business, implications of undertaking new approaches, and ways businesses are transforming and being transformed by their environments.

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"This work offers useful coverage of an emerging paradigm in which successful organizations are committing to a social contract emphasizing global sustainability while also providing a positive return to all their stakeholders. Recommended." - Choice

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business and Chairholder, USA

    James A. F. Stoner

  • St. Johns University, New York, USA

    Charles Wankel

About the editors

Javier Aguilera-Caracuel Cynthia Aguirre J. Alberto Aragón-Correa Eugênio Ávila Pedrozo Denise Barros de Azevedo Alessio Cavicchi Dr. Avrath Chadha Guilherme Cunha Malafaia Javier Delgado Ceballos Blanca Luisa Delgado-Márquez Nuria Hurtado-Torres Aileen Ionescu-Somers Silvester Ivanaj Vera Ivanaj Richard H. Jones Candace A. Martinez Tammy E. Newmark Natalia Ortiz-de-Mandojana Jacob Park Benedetto Rocchi Antonio Rueda-Manzanares John L. Stancil James A.F. Stoner Wendy Stubbs Charles Wankel Anatoly Zhuplev

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