A Simple Path to Sustainability - Green Business Strategies for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (Hardcover)

With unequaled insight, business experts profile 12 outstanding, sustainable, small- to medium-sized enterprises and explain how their green strategies and methods have helped them succeed. A Simple Path to Sustainability: Green Business Strategies for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses is designed specifically to help smaller enterprises share in the benefits that flow from sustainability. Built around case histories showcasing 12 small to medium-size enterprises (SMEs) that have outstanding records of sustainability, this unique, hands-on guide will help readers choose and develop sustainability strategies and undertake the marketing and management initiatives necessary for success. The studies collected here detail each company's journey from initial idea through building a new culture, engaging stakeholders, gaining competitive advantage, and planning for the future. Each study also covers the challenges encountered, successes and failures, and lessons learned. Cases are centered around distinct themes, including a marketing/public relations perspective, a risk management perspective, an organizational culture perspective, and a new product development perspective. Taken as a whole, these stories do more than inform. They will inspire managers to become green entrepreneurs, undertaking sustainable strategies that can reap surprising benefits. Case histories of small to medium-size enterprises in industries from manufacturing to health care, banking/investing, and recycling detailing their journeys to sustainability and environmental stewardship A "Lessons Learned" box in each chapter Sidebars with tips and examples that can be used by any type of business A reference bibliography at the end of each chapter A glossary

General

Imprint:	Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2011
First published:	March 2011
Editors:	Fred M Andreas • Elizabeth S Cooperman • Blair Gifford • Graham Russell
Dimensions:	242 x 157 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	253
ISBN-13:	978-0-313-38269-7
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business strategy Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business negotiation Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology > General
LSN:	0-313-38269-7
Barcode:	9780313382697

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