ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on the activities of business. It examines how central players in organisations construct and make meaningful, environmental issues and discourses. The book then examines the perceptual slants, social linkages and political networks that constitute the environment and the responses to it. It also focuses on the green organisation. The book explores the pervasiveness and power of corporate purchasing: how, and from whom, companies buy things. It then identifies five key figures in the property business: architects, developers, occupiers, investors and agents. The book also explores a spectrum of managerial players in environmental initiatives, as well as the different structures and techniques. It examines how regulation has unfolded, with distinct degrees of potency, within baking, building construction, printing and refrigeration sectors.
