Management for a Small Planet: Strategic Decision Making and the EnvironmentThis innovative book is the first on environmental issues aimed at management students and practitioners. Its purpose is to help managers make strategic decisions that are both economically successful and sensitive to the Earth's natural environment. The book is designed to: educate managers about current national and global environmental issues, particularly as they relate to economic activities; introduce a range of social, scientific, psychological and economic concepts related to environmentally sensitive strategic decisions; and offer a new strategic decision-making framework to help achieve long-term economic success within the limits of the ecosystem. |
Contents
Its Time for a Change | 3 |
The Earth Is a Living System | 6 |
The Issue Wheel | 20 |
Copyright | |
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achieve acid rain assumptions Bader basic billion business organizations cancer Chapter chemicals choices cognitive complex consumption corporations costs current economic customers Daly & Cobb depletion discussed E. F. Schumacher Earth ecological economic activity economic paradigm economic system economic theory economist ecosystem Ehrlich employees energy sources enterprise strategy entropy environmental problems ethical investing Etzioni example factors factors of production firm firm's Fritjof Capra Gaia theory global goals green consumers Halal Herman Daly human humankind implementing increasing individual limits living system long-term management paradigm ment mental models nations natural capital natural environment natural resources nomic organizational ozone perceptions pollution population growth processes profits recycled require ronmental says small planet smart growth social society species stakeholders strategic decision makers strategic managers subsystems survival sustainability strategies sustainable balance tion tive toxic TQM-based values wastes