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Varieties of green business

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018Description: viii, 270 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN:
  • 9781788114134
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Contents:
1. Varieties of Business Responsibility - 2. Business and Waste Management in Europe before 1945 (with Andrew Spadafora) - 3. “Power from Sunshine”: The Business of Solar Energy before 1990 - 4. Financing Sustainability (with Emily Grandjean and Andrew Spadafora) - 5. Organic Food and National Image: The Paradox of New Zealand (with Simon Mowatt) - 6. Creating the Market for Organic Wine: Sulfites, Certification, and Green Values (with Emily Grandjean) - 7. Creating Ecotourism in Costa Rica (with Andrew Spadafora) - 8. Alternative Paths of Green Entrepreneurship: Yvon Chouinard, Doug Tompkins and Kristine McDivitt Tompkins (with Ben Gettinger).
Summary: 'This book provides rich new empirical evidence on green business as it examines its variation between industries and nations, and over time. It demonstrates the deep historical origins of endeavors to create for-profit businesses that were more responsible and sustainable, but also how these strategies have faced constraints, trade-offs and challenges of legitimacy. Based on extensive interviews and archives from around the world, the book asks why green business succeeds more in some contexts than others, and draws lessons from failure as well as success.' --Publisher description.
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Book TBS Barcelona Libre acceso HC79.E5 JON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available B04134

1. Varieties of Business Responsibility - 2. Business and Waste Management in Europe before 1945 (with Andrew Spadafora) - 3. “Power from Sunshine”: The Business of Solar Energy before 1990 - 4. Financing Sustainability (with Emily Grandjean and Andrew Spadafora) - 5. Organic Food and National Image: The Paradox of New Zealand (with Simon Mowatt) - 6. Creating the Market for Organic Wine: Sulfites, Certification, and Green Values (with Emily Grandjean) - 7. Creating Ecotourism in Costa Rica (with Andrew Spadafora) - 8. Alternative Paths of Green Entrepreneurship: Yvon Chouinard, Doug Tompkins and Kristine McDivitt Tompkins (with Ben Gettinger).

'This book provides rich new empirical evidence on green business as it examines its variation between industries and nations, and over time. It demonstrates the deep historical origins of endeavors to create for-profit businesses that were more responsible and sustainable, but also how these strategies have faced constraints, trade-offs and challenges of legitimacy. Based on extensive interviews and archives from around the world, the book asks why green business succeeds more in some contexts than others, and draws lessons from failure as well as success.' --Publisher description.

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