Greening Business: Managing for Sustainable Development / Edition 1

by John Davis

Overview

Davis shows that the developed and developing world must now pursue 'sustainable development' requiring high levels of directed innovation. Industrial and commercial businesses of all kinds must bring about what amounts to a second industrial revolution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631193159
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	06/06/1994
Series:	Developmental Management , #1
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.07(w) x 9.07(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

John Davis left the Shell Group in 1974 after a long and distinguished career in research and marketing development. In the early seventies he was Chairman and Managing Director of Shell Composites Limited and IBE Limited. The author of four previous books, he has been a successful IT consultant and has been on the boards of a number of companies.

Table of Contents

Preface.

Foreword: Ronnie Lessem.

1. What does Sustainable Development mean?.

2. Vision and Values.

3. Horses for Courses - the Size Factor.

4. The Numbers Game.

5. Good Work: Different Arrangements.

6. Conducting the Orchestra.

7. Pulling Together: Alternative Ownership.

8. Quality, Codes and Standards.

9. New Rules for the Business Game.

10. New Age Opportunities: Sustainable Technologies.

11. Postscript: The World's Search for New Systems.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Needs to be urgently read by managers at all levels." Long Range Planning "Offers an excellent introduction to the most important topic for business..." Executive Development "The scale, the courage, the demanding vision of this book makes it an exceptional read for any manager. There are all signs of the future in this book ... I commend this work for its breadth, foresightedness and its meticulous, and practical relevance to our human condition." Sir Peter Parker

From the Publisher

A former engineer and manager at a multinational corporation, Davis argues that business must pursue a path of sustainable development and that it can thus be a major agent of innovation and change. Using examples from business and corporations that have to various degrees succeeded in implementing responsible practices, Davis analyzes the problems posed by conventional business practices and details strategies that managers, workers, consumers, and communities can use to bring about the needed changes. Foreword by Ronnie Lessem. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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