The Link Between Company Environmental and Financial Performance (Routledge Revivals)

The Link Between Company Environmental and Financial Performance (Routledge Revivals)
Author: David Edwards
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2014-11-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317574990

The Link between Company Environmental & Financial Performance, first published in 1998, is a detailed investigation into the effects of environmental performance – resource efficiency, regulatory compliance, new product and service opportunities – on corporate financial performance. This report makes essential reading for company management, investors and other stakeholders. It demonstrates the quantitative links between environmental and financial performance for the UK’s best and worst environmental performers across a range of business sectors. It shows that there is no financial penalty for being environmentally proactive, and confirms US findings that good environmental performance improves a company’s financial performance.

The Link Between Company Environmental and Financial Performance (Routledge Revivals)

The Link Between Company Environmental and Financial Performance (Routledge Revivals)
Author: David Edwards
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2014-11-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317575008

The Link between Company Environmental & Financial Performance, first published in 1998, is a detailed investigation into the effects of environmental performance – resource efficiency, regulatory compliance, new product and service opportunities – on corporate financial performance. This report makes essential reading for company management, investors and other stakeholders. It demonstrates the quantitative links between environmental and financial performance for the UK’s best and worst environmental performers across a range of business sectors. It shows that there is no financial penalty for being environmentally proactive, and confirms US findings that good environmental performance improves a company’s financial performance.

The Impact of Economic Democracy

The Impact of Economic Democracy
Author: Michael Poole
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2013-12-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317829549

First published in 1990, this work examines the link between the economic performance of companies and profit sharing. The relationship is a complex one: industrial relations may be improved by schemes, but good employers are likely to introduce profit sharing in any case; and though attitudes to work do change, schemes have more immediate impact on satisfaction an communications than on productivity and effort put into work.

The Green Case (Routledge Revivals)

The Green Case (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Steven Yearley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2014-06-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317702999

First published in 1991, this title provides a comprehensive and objective account of the basis of ‘green’ arguments and their social and political implications. By the beginning of the 1990s, environmental awareness had become widespread, popular, and fashionable throughout the West, adopted by politicians, manufacturers and advertising agencies. The book sets out to explain why and how the ‘green wave’ developed, and examines the forces still shaping green politics and policies at an international level. With important implications across the fields of Sociology, Development Studies and Environment and Sustainability, this reissue will be valuable to a broad student and academic readership.

The Rise and Decline of Small Firms (Routledge Revivals)

The Rise and Decline of Small Firms (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Jonathan Boswell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2014-06-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317671562

First published in 1973, this title examines the development patterns of small businesses. It considers why people found firms; the factors that contribute to entrepreneurial success; problems of management succession and inheritance; the strengths and weaknesses of family firms; the reasons why small firms are taken over; and the social, economic and managerial context of their growth, decline, and revival. Based on a survey of sixty-four firms, each employing fewer than five hundred people, in engineering, hosiery, and knitwear, and on the records of 370 similar organisations, a striking gap in performance and management attitudes emerges as between dynamic, mostly founder-run firms and stagnant, mostly inherited ones. Where many books are either minutely specialised or highly abstract and over-generalised, Jonathan Boswell’s work is practical and diagnostic, probing the inner recesses of the small firm sector. With particular relevance to the difficulties faced by entrepreneurs in today’s economic environment, this title advances selective measures to deal with old firms and inheritance, and a wide range of policies to encourage new entrepreneurship.

The Awakening Giant (Routledge Revivals)

The Awakening Giant (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Andrew Pettigrew
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2013-06-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136720936

First published in 1985, this book is about Imperial Chemical Industries’ response to the changing social, political, business and economic environment over the past twenty years. Using personal interviews and archival material, Andrew Pettigrew examines the evolution of business strategy, organisation structure and culture, technology and union-management relations within this corporate giant over an extended period of time. It is a compelling account, told from the inside, by one of the world’s leading management and organisation theorists. The Awakening Giant has made a major practical and theoretical contribution to the study of corporate strategy, organisational analysis and change, and business history. Anyone with an interest in managing change in a large corporation will find this reissue rewarding reading.

Coalitions and Competition (Routledge Revivals)

Coalitions and Competition (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Yair Aharoni
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2014-06-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317935950

This title, first published in 1993, was one of the first books to analyse the forces behind the increasing globalization of professional business services. Based on contributions from leading authorities in international business, both academics and members of organizations such as GATT and UNCTAD, it looks at the opportunities for growth, environmental and regulatory problems, and the major problems of managing the international expansion of professional firms. Crucially, it discusses such issues from the point of view of managers of such organizations, and the role of governments in negotiating multinational agreements. This highly international and timely reissue will be of interest to students of international business, as well as managers of professional business firms and policy makers involved in international trade issues.

The Routledge Companion to Intellectual Capital

The Routledge Companion to Intellectual Capital
Author: James Guthrie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1149
Release: 2017-09-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315393085

The Routledge Companion to Intellectual Capital offers a comprehensive overview of an important field that has seen a diverse range of developments in research in recent years. Edited by leading scholars and with contributions from top academics and practitioners from around the world, this volume will provide not just theoretical analysis but also evaluate practice through case studies. Combining theoretical and practice perspectives, this comprehensive Companion addresses the role of IC inside and between organisations and institutions and how these contribute to the IC of nations, regions and clusters. Drawing on an extensive range of leading contributors,The Routledge Companion to Intellectual Capital will be of interest to scholars who want to understand IC from a variety of perspectives, as well as students who are seeking an authoritative and comprehensive source on IC and knowledge management.

Learning in the Workplace (Routledge Revivals)

Learning in the Workplace (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Victoria Marsick
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2015-05-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317505972

The nature of the workplace and the workforce has changed rapidly in post-industrial society. Most workers are now facing the need for high levels of preparatory education, retraining for new jobs and the ability to continue learning at work in order to keep up with new developments. The book, first published in 1987, argues that training in the workplace often fails because it is based on conditions that no longer prevail in modern organisations. The mechanistic approach of the behaviourist paradigm, it is argued, views the organisation as a machine and training as the preparation of workers for machine-like work according to their levels in the hierarchy, much as on an assembly line. The humanists’ advocation of collaborative learning has changed but not fundamentally altered this conception. This book will be of interest to students of education and business management.

Corporate Assessment (Routledge Revivals)

Corporate Assessment (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Adrian Furnham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2015-06-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317499573

Corporate Assessment, first published in 1993, looks at four types of company audit and provides a pragmatic, readable guide for managers. The authors show how assessment of a company in terms of its culture, climate, communications and customers can enhance management vision and lead to recommendations designed to improve employee satisfaction, motivation, loyalty and performance. Insight is provided into the kinds of measurement tools and assessment techniques that are available, and the authors offer recommendations for the use of these instruments, and how best to utilize the information they can produce. This book will not only be of interest to managers who need to assess their companies, but to students of business, organizational psychology, and human resource management.