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Teaching Business Sustainability: From Theory to Practice


Teaching Business Sustainability: From Theory to Practice

Hardback by Galea, Chris

Teaching Business Sustainability: From Theory to Practice

£56.99

ISBN:
9781874719540
Publication Date:
1 Aug 2004
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
Greenleaf Publishing
Pages:
342 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 13 - 18 May 2024
Teaching Business Sustainability: From Theory to Practice

Description

There are many challenges facing educators in the field of sustainability. This text aims to analyze the state of the art in teaching business sustainability worldwide, and what teaching practices and tools are achieving successful results.

Contents

Introduction Chris Galea, Saint Francis Xavier University, Canada Part 1: Theory, critique and ideas 1. Mental models @ work: implications for teaching sustainability John Adams, Saybrook Graduate School, USA 2. Teaching sustainability: a critical perspective Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee, University of South Australia 3. Can publicly traded companies achieve environmentally and socially sustainable operation? Tom P. Abeles, Sagacity Inc., USA 4. The business of development: linking profits and principles to address global development challenges Pepukaye Bardouille, McKinsey & Company, Denmark 5. Is the MBA sustainable? Degrees of change Suzanne Benn and David Bubna-Litic, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 6. Integrating business and environmental education Steven R. Elliott, Raymond F. Gorman, Timothy C. Krehbiel and Orie L. Loucks, Miami University, USA, O. Homer Erekson, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA, and H. Gregory Hume, TECHSOLVE, USA 7. Social sustainability David K. Foot, University of Toronto, Canada, and Susan Ross, Golder Associates Ltd, Canada 8. An international comparison of environmental concern among business students Michael Schaper, University of Newcastle, Australia Part 2: Learning from current practice 9. Sustainability education: the experience of HRH the Prince of Wales's Business and the Environment Programme Polly Courtice and Jonathon Porritt, Business and the Environment Programme, UK 10. Approaching sustainability through a business-science synthesis Steven R. Elliott, Raymond F. Gorman, Timothy C. Krehbiel, Orie L. Loucks and Allan M. Springer, Miami University, USA, and O. Homer Erekson, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA 11. Environmental actions, attitudes and knowledge: making a difference through university education? The case of Middlesex University Business School Diane Holt, Middlesex University Business School, UK 12. Mainstreaming sustainability issues in core undergraduate management education: the "Social Context of Business" course at McGill University Kariann Aarup, McGill University, Canada 13. The Environmental Enterprise Corps: educating MBA students about sustainability Gillian Rice, Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management, USA, and Amy Sprague, World Resources Institute, USA 14. Partners in learning: how a business school and a company worked together to advance sustainability Thomas L. Eggert and Dan Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and Ronald Meissen and Verie Sandborg, Baxter International Inc., USA 15. Matching form to content in educating for sustainability: the Master's course in Responsibility and Business Practice Judi Marshall, University of Bath, UK Part 3: Tools, methods and approaches 16. Making sense of corporate responsibility tools Sasha Courville, Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University 17. Teaching sustainability: whole-systems learning Molly Brown, Intermountain Synthesis Center, USA, and Joanna Macy 18. Corporate education programmes for sustainable business: communities.

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