01284nam a2200145Ia 450000500170000000800390001702000180005608200170007410000190009124500740011026000360018452008840022065000170110470000170112120260302160847.0260302s9999    xx          000 0 und d  a9781840649062  a338.927bSHA  aSharma, Sanjay 0aResearch in Corporate Sustainability / cSharma, Sanjay; Starik, Mark  bEdward Elgar Publishing, c2002  aThe contributors present a range of unique perspectives on issues including the impact of globalization on sustainability, cross-cultural comparisons of the impact of institutional contexts on environmental practices of Japanese and Chinese forms, comparisons of voluntary environmental initiatives undertaken by public and private sector organizations, processes of organizational change in response to stakeholder pressures, the transfer of environmental capabilities during mergers and acquisitions, why some companies keep the environmentally friendly features of their products secret, and the influence of emissions and health-impacts information on attitudes toward the environment. This volume opens and closes with two essays that comprehensively review of the state of research in organizations and the natural environment and suggest directions for future researchers.  aCorporations  aStarik, Mark