Profits and Sustainability

A History of Green Entrepreneurship

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

AvGeoffrey Jones,Harvard Business School) Jones, Geoffrey (Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History

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Are profits and sustainability compatible? This book brings unique perspectives to this key debate by exploring the history of green entrepreneurship since the nineteenth century, and its spread globally in industries including renewable energy, organic food, natural beauty, ecotourism, recycling, architecture, and finance. The book uses the lens of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who defied convention and imagined that business could help save the planet, rather than consume it. The social and religious beliefs that drove many of these individuals are explored as the book looks at how they overcame huge obstacles to execute their strategies. The green entrepreneurs seen here are shown to have created new markets and industries, and driven innovations in sustainable practices, even at times when most consumers and governments marginalized the entire subject. The struggles of early pioneers appear to have been rewarded by the growth of environmental awareness among consumers, business leaders, and others in recent years, but the Earth's environmental health continues to deteriorate. If profits and sustainability have proved challenging to reconcile, this book argues that one reason was how they were both defined.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-08-15
Mått157 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt698 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor464
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198845652

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Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at the Harvard Business School. He holds degrees of MA and PhD from Cambridge University, and taught previously at the London School of Economics, and Cambridge and Reading Universities in Britain, and at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. He researches the evolution, impact, and responsibility of global business, and is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and and of the Royal Historical Society. His books include Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to Twenty First Century (Oxford University Press, 2005), Renewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2005), and Beauty Imagined (Oxford University Press, 2011)

Introduction: The Business of SustainabilityPart 1: Green Intentions1: Pioneering in Food and Energy2: Poisoned Earth: Green Businesses 1930s-1950s3: Earthrise and the Rise of Green Business4: Accidental Sustainability: Waste and Tourism as Green BusinessesPart 2: Green Business5: Making Money By Saving the World6: Building Green Institutions7: Can Finance Change the World?8: The Green Team: Government and Business9: Corporate Environmentalism and the Boundaries of Sustainability10: Conclusion

Jones has written a captivating, engaging and thoughtful book about the evolution of green business along with a serious discussion of whether capitalism and sustainability have been, or can be, compatible. Profits and Sustainability is a book which is rich in detail, based on original research, written in delightful language and reflects Jones exceptional knowledge of global business and the history of capitalism.

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