Management for a Small Planet: Strategic Decision Making and the Environment

Stead, W, E. and Stead, J, G.

ISBN 10: 0761902945 / ISBN 13: 9780761902942

Published by Sage Publications, 1996

About this Item

This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9780761902942.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Management for a Small Planet: Strategic Decision Making and the Environment
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761902945
• ISBN 13: 9780761902942
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 600 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Business

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Synopsis

First edition was recipient of Choice Magazine′s 1992 Outstanding Academic Book Award "This second edition of Management for a Small Planet significantly improves on what was already a must- read book for students and scholars of management. The authors even more skillfully address some of the most crucial business and natural environmental issues of our time in this edition, and introduce new and substantially revised sections on the emerging topics of industrial ecology, overconsumption, and sustainability systems. Carrying forward commonsense decisionmaking models, and adding updated references, quotes, and examples, this book explains in layperson′s terms why businesses need to treat this planet, in the words of the authors as ′the ultimate stakeholder.′" --Mark Starik, George Washington University Today′s business organizations are faced with increasing environmental concerns. Consumers are demanding environmentally safe products, investors are demanding environmentally responsible business practices, and government regulation is increasingly targeting environmental protection. Is it possible for managers to make strategic decisions that are both economically successful and sensitive to the Earth′s natural environment? In the second edition of this award-winning volume, W. Edward Stead and Jean Garner Stead educate managers and students of management about current national and global environmental issues, particularly as they relate to business activities and management practice. All of the chapters have been updated with the latest information and include helpful examples. In addition, two entirely new chapters have been added--one on how to create a new, environmentally friendly workplace and another titled Changing the Myth, which explores the underlying frameworks that guide individual and collective action. Coverage also includes information on industrial metabolism and biophysical, socio-economic, moral sustainability, and stakeholder management. Academics in the fields of management, administration, organization studies, policy studies, public administration, and political science, as well as practicing managers, will continue to learn from the insights this volume offers. This second edition of Management for a Small Planet will enable managers to achieve long-term economic success within the limits of our ecosystem.

About the Author

W. Edward Stead is a Professor of Management at East Tennessee State University.