Profits and sustainability : a history of green entrepreneurship / Geoffrey Jones.
By: Jones, Geoffrey [author.].
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017Description: xi, 442 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780198706977.Subject(s): Business enterprises -- Environmental aspects | Entrepreneurship -- Environmental aspects -- History | Business ethics -- History | Environmentalism -- History | Businesspeople -- Professional ethics -- History | Entrepreneurship -- Environmental aspects -- History | Nachhaltigkeit | Management | EntrepreneurshipGenre/Form: Print books.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-410) and index.
Introduction. The business of sustainability -- part I. Green intentions -- Pioneering in food and energy -- Poisoned earth : green businesses, 1930s-1950s -- Earthrise and the rise of green business -- Accidental sustainability : waste and tourism as green business -- part 2. Green business -- Making money by saving the world -- Building green institutions -- Can finance change the world? -- The green team : government and business -- Corporate environmentalism and the boundaries of sustainability -- Conclusion.