Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations
Processes of Creative Self-Destruction
By Christopher Wright,Daniel Nyberg | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
About the book
Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity a definitive manifestation of the well-worn links between progress and devastation. This book explores the complex relationship that the corporate world has with climate change and examines the central role of corporations in shaping political and social responses to the climate crisis. The principal message of the book is that despite the need for dramatic economic and political change corporate capitalism continues to rely on the maintenance of business as usual . The authors explore the different processes through which corporations engage with climate change. Key discussion points include climate change as business risk corporate climate politics the role of justification and compromise and managerial identity and emotional reactions to climate change. Written for researchers and graduate students this book moves beyond descriptive and normative approaches to provide a sociologically and critically informed theory of corporate responses to climate change.
Editions of Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781107078222
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781107435131
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Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity a definitive manifestation of the well-worn links between progress and devastation. This book explores the complex relationship that the corporate world has with climate change and examines the central role of corporations in shaping political and social responses to the climate crisis. The principal message of the book is that despite the need for dramatic economic and political change corporate capitalism continues to rely on the maintenance of business as usual . The authors explore the different processes through which corporations engage with climate change. Key discussion points include climate change as business risk corporate climate politics the role of justification and compromise and managerial identity and emotional reactions to climate change. Written for researchers and graduate students this book moves beyond descriptive and normative approaches to provide a sociologically and critically informed theory of corporate responses to climate change.
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Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity a definitive manifestation of the well-worn links between progress and devastation. This book explores the complex relationship that the corporate world has with climate change and examines the central role of corporations in shaping political and social responses to the climate crisis. The principal message of the book is that despite the need for dramatic economic and political change corporate capitalism continues to rely on the maintenance of business as usual . The authors explore the different processes through which corporations engage with climate change. Key discussion points include climate change as business risk corporate climate politics the role of justification and compromise and managerial identity and emotional reactions to climate change. Written for researchers and graduate students this book moves beyond descriptive and normative approaches to provide a sociologically and critically informed theory of corporate responses to climate change.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations?
Economics, Finance, Business and Management > Business and Management > Business and the environment; sustainable approaches to business
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations?
Christopher Wright,Daniel Nyberg
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Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781107078222) and paperback(ISBN 9781107435131)