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Sustainable Management

Coping with the Dilemmas of Resource-Oriented Management

Authors:

  1. Georg Müller-Christ

    1. LS ABWL, Nachhaltiges Management, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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  • The step-by-step structure leads the reader carefully to a resource-oriented understanding of sustainable management.

  • Includes learning targets at the beginning and suggestions for further reflection at the end of each chapter.

  • Provides Solutions for Dilemmas in Resource-Oriented Management.

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Understanding Sustainability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Sustainability and Society

      • Georg Müller-Christ
      Pages 3-25

    3. Quo Vadis, Environmental Management?

      • Georg Müller-Christ
      Pages 27-42

    4. Quo Vadis, Social Responsibility?

      • Georg Müller-Christ
      Pages 43-49

    5. Sustainability as Economic Rationality

      • Georg Müller-Christ
      Pages 51-65

  3. Theoretical Impulses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. A Theory of Management Ecology

      • Georg Müller-Christ
      Pages 69-101

  4. Sustainable Resource Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    4. Strategic Resource Management

      • Georg Müller-Christ
      Pages 205-234

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 235-239
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About this book

In this book, a resource-oriented perception of sustainable management is presented. Firms that decide to act more sustainable have to bear in mind that they do not only need resources for economic activities today, but that they will need these tomorrow as well. This leads to contradictory management rationalities firms must deal with. The author presents his findings as regards the development of environmental and social responsibility and introduces a theory of management ecology. He takes a close look at the contradictions businesses have to face when governing their activity towards sustainability. Moreover, he identifies different notions of the resource term in management studies and develops a “sustainable resource management” which could help businesses redirect their economic activities from a solely profit-oriented to a resource-oriented way of operating.
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  • LS ABWL, Nachhaltiges Management, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Georg Müller-Christ

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