TY - BOOK AU - Sharma, Sanjay AU - Starik, Mark TI - Research in Corporate Sustainability / SN - 9781840649062 U1 - 338.927 PY - 2002/// PB - Edward Elgar Publishing, KW - Corporations N2 - The 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 ER -