ABSTRACT

Industry cannot be separated from nature. Indeed, linked to the current high profile of environmental issues is a growing sense that industrialization has now caused damage to the environment that will be difficult, if not impossible, to rectify. The Business of Greening debates the relationship between business and greening, and the future form this relationship could take. The book gives voice to industrial actors - employees, employers, managers, technical specialists, regulators - in the context of their organizations, within industrial sectors or as part of wider institution regimes. The business of greening is taken as socially constructed, shaped through tensions and competing interests which produce outcomes that are sometimes unexpected, sometimes hopeful. Contributors write from a wide range of different social sciences including sociology, geography, organizational science and psychology. This is a unique collection of findings from field projects within the Global Environmental Change research programme of the UK Economic and Social Research Council, and will be of particular interest to students and researchers of environmental and business studies, and to those who shape environmental policy in government and industry. Stephen Fineman University of Bath Andrea Coulson University of Strathclyde Frances Drake Leeds University Ken Green UMIST Simon Guy University of Newcastle

chapter 1|10 pages

The business of greening

An introduction

part |2 pages

PART I Constructing the environment

chapter 3|19 pages

Buying the environment

The multiple meanings of green supply

chapter 4|24 pages

Framing environmental choices

Mediating the environment in the property business

chapter 5|17 pages

Banking on the environment

Risk and rationality

part |2 pages

Part 2 Regulating

chapter 6|17 pages

Being a regulator

chapter 7|20 pages

Regulation matters

Global environmental discourse and business response

part |2 pages

Part 3 Learning and change

chapter 9|16 pages

Smaller enterprises and the environment

Organisational learning potential?

chapter 10|20 pages

Agents of change in corporate ‘greening’

Case studies in water and electricity utilities

part |2 pages

Part 4 The green organisation?

chapter 11|10 pages

Green myths, green realities