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Green new world: A corporate environmental business perspective

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  • Ulhøi, J. P.
  • Madsen, H.
  • Hildebrandt, S.

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Interest in the relationship between business and the environment has grown significantly during the second half of the 1980s. During the 1970s and at the start of the 1980s environmental concern was mainly confined to a narrow group of environmental and political extremists. This is no longer true, however. With leading newspapers, journals, professional associations, etc., devoting more and more attention to this important relationship, the issue of environmental concern now increasingly finds its way into the boardrooms of a growing number of corporations. This paper discusses the concept of sustainable development and attempts to place it in a corporate context, not in the form of the "ten golden rules of industrial sustainability" but in an analysis and subsequent discussion of the way mainstream economists have handled the environment to date. Special attention is given to the interdependence between Corporate Strategic Environmental and Resource Management and Total Quality Management, and, in addition, to the importance of the measuring and controlling of environmental and resource management. Due to the fact that there appears to be only very limited industrial "greening" experiences in Scandinavia, this article closes with with an outline of the present situation in Denmark where this situation is beginning to change.

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  • Ulhøi, J. P. & Madsen, H. & Hildebrandt, S., 1996. "Green new world: A corporate environmental business perspective," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 12(3), pages 243-254, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:scaman:v:12:y:1996:i:3:p:243-254
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    1. Factor, Aharon, 2001. "Eco-economic theory building: Implications for researching small and medium-sized enterprises," Working Papers 2001-3, University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Management.
    2. Bino Catasús & Maths Lundgren & Hans Rynnel, 1997. "Environmental managers' views on environmental work in a business context," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 6(4), pages 197-205, September.
    3. Martin Lindell & Necmi Karagozoglu, 2001. "Corporate environmental behaviour – a comparison between Nordic and US firms," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 10(1), pages 38-52, January.
    4. Hannu Schadewitz & Mikael Niskala, 2010. "Communication via responsibility reporting and its effect on firm value in Finland," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 17(2), pages 96-106, March.
    5. Gabriel Eweje, 2006. "Environmental Costs and Responsibilities Resulting from Oil Exploitation in Developing Countries: The Case of the Niger Delta of Nigeria," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 69(1), pages 27-56, November.

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