Grant Ledgerwood - Environment Ethics and the Corporation

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title	:	Environment, Ethics and the Corporation
author	:	Ledgerwood, Grant.; Broadhurst, Arlene Idol.
publisher	:	Palgrave Macmillan (UK)
isbn10 | asin	:	0333685261
print isbn13	:	9780333685266
ebook isbn13	:	9780333981634
language	:	English
subject	Industrial management--Environmental aspects, Social responsibility of business.
publication date	:	2000
lcc	:	HD30.255.L428 2000eb
ddc	:	658.4/08
subject	:	Industrial management--Environmental aspects, Social responsibility of business.

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ENVIRONMENT, ETHICS AND THE CORPORATION

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Grant Ledgerwood
and
Arlene Idol Broadhurst

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First published in Great Britain 2000 by
MACMILLAN PRESS LTD
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London
Companies and representatives throughout the world

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 0333685261

First published in the United States of America 2000 by
ST. MARTINS PRESS, INC.,
Scholarly and Reference Division,
175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010

ISBN 0312230109
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ledgerwood, Grant, 1941
Environment, ethics and the corporation / Grant Ledgerwood and
Arlene Idol Broadhurst.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0312230109 (cloth)
1. Industrial managementEnvironmental aspects. 2. Social
responsibility of business. I. Broadhurst, Arlene Idol. II. Title.
HD30.255 .L428 1999
658.4'08dc21
99049280

Grant Ledgerwood and Arlene Idol Broadhurst 2000

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Tom Peters, some time in the 1990s:
We are re-engineering the planet.

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List of Tables, Figures and Boxes IX List of Cases XI Preface and Acknowledgements XIIIntroduction 1 PART I THE MACRO-PLANETARY PROCESS:
BUSINESS AND THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT 1 The Environmentalisation of International Business 9 2 Global Business Innovation and the Environment 26 3 Global Trends and the Corporate Response 42 4 Environmental Diplomacy and Corporations in the
World-Wide Web of Interaction 60 5 Greenpeace: Case Study of an NGO Multinational
Enterprise 83 PART II THE MESO-MICRO TERRESTRIAL
ENVIRONMENT: CORPORATIONS,
NATIONS AND CITIES 6 The Metropolitan Corporate Centre: Reinvention of the
Medieval City-State 111 7 The Environmental Entrepreneur: Personality and
Culture 142 8 Corporate Innovation in the Fast Lane: Environmental
Technology and Planning the New Industrial Metabolism 169 9 Nations and Cities: Sustainability Models 189 PART III ETHICS AND FUTURES: SOCIAL AND
ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS 10 Business Ethics: National and International Dimensions
of Social Responsibility 209

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11 Globalisation and the Environmentalised Corporation:
Present Exemplars and Future Prospects 235 Notes and References 248 Bibliography 263 Index 273

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1.1 New car sales in America, 197099 (projected) 10

1.2 The new economic world order: a comparison 13

1.3 Comparative advantage in environmentally sensitive goods, 197090 17

1.4 The corporation as negotiated environmentalist and enabler of entrepreneurial activity 23

2.1 Pacific Northwest companies 28

2.2 A typology of corporate environmental strategies 29

3.1 Some global and transnational agencies with a stake in the environment in the 1990s 45

3.2 Major voluntary non-governmental organisations with a stake in the environment in the 1990s 46

3.3 The global climate coalition: members in 1998 56

4.1 International agreements that affect corporate interests 67

4.2 Summary of environmental issues addressed in international conventions 68

4.3 Environmental partnerships between MNCs and NGOs 79

5.1 Three decades of Greenpeace activism 92

5.2 Income and expenditures of Greenpeace 99

5.3 Fund balances for Greenpeace 100

5.4 Comparison of estimated marketing budgets for Greenpeace 102

6.1 KXT and LRC proposals: summary comparison 126

6.2 Categories reviewed in the environmental assessment 127

7.1 The macro-environment of business investment 152

7.2 The macro-environment of enterprise formation: psycho-cultural mode differentiation 153

7.3 The Myers-Briggs types 153

7.4 Company types and management culture 159

9.1 UK social stratification, 1975 and 19978 191

9.2 Costa Rican initiatives to establish sustainability as a national priority, 19946 203

10.1 Variable approaches to the study of business ethics 213

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10.2 Categories for measuring ethical content 216

10.3 Royal/Dutch Shell Group of Companies: goals, values, principles 231

11.1 Benchmarks for an internationalised environmentalised manufacturing and trading sector 238

11.2 Ethical product systems: a comparison 240

11.3 The evolution of SHE: corporate context and historical patterning 243

11.4 The new globalisation paradigm: two contrasting approaches 245

6.1 Map of Kings Cross Railway Lands 116

6.2 London Regeneration Consortium proposals 118

6.3 KXT Proposals 121

6.4 KXT Planning for Real announcement 122

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