The Path to Sustainable Business: Environmental Frameworks, Practices, and Related Tools
17 Pages Posted: 30 May 2017
Abstract
In the late 1980s, the concept of sustainable development gained prominence as a perspective for understanding the changing dynamic of business and the environment. It is a term that has come to mean different things to different people.
Excerpt
UVA-ENT-0033
The Path to Sustainable Business:
Environmental Frameworks, Practices, and Related Tools
According to a 1989 National Academy of Engineering report by Robert Ayres, 94% of the material used in industrial production is thrown away before the product is made.
Sustainability is an injunction not to satisfy ourselves by impoverishing our successors.
—Robert Solow
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Keywords: Entrepreneurship
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Andrea Larson (Contact Author)
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business ( email )
P.O. Box 6550
Charlottesville, VA 22906-6550
United States
HOME PAGE: http://www.darden.virginia.edu/faculty/larson.htm
Elizabeth Teisberg
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business ( email )
Richard R. Johnson
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business
P.O. Box 6550
Charlottesville, VA 22906-6550
United States