Climate change is the greatest market failure in world history and thus the most urgent challenge in the world of business for the foreseeable future. This book brings together experts to shed light on the historical impact of business on climate change and of climate change on business.
Climate change is the greatest market failure in world history and thus the most urgent challenge in the world of business for the foreseeable future. This book brings together experts to shed light on the historical impact of business on climate change and of climate change on business.
The book shows how corporate responses to climate change emerged out of earlier environmental concerns, regulatory frameworks, and in many cases already established business strategies. Contributors to the book analyse the evolution of business strategies to navigate environmental challenges even before climate crisis was widely recognized as an urgent concern.
The historical insights presented by this book will be essential reading for business historians, as well as students, scholars and reflective practitioners with an interest in the environment, political economy, business strategy, and risk management.
Introduction. Climate Change and Business: A New Perspective and
Research Agenda Teresa da Silva Lopes, Paul Duguid and Robert Fredona
1.
Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change Geoffrey Jones and
Ann-Kristin Bergquist
2. Cars and Climate Change: The Historical Political
Economy of a Green Transition Grace Ballor and Mattias Näsman
3. Pollution
and Business: Case Studies from Modern Chinese Business History Ghassan
Moazzin
4. Forests for Sale: Multinationals and Civil Societys Oversight in
the Palm Oil Agribusiness Shakila Yacob
5. Hurricanes and Floods: The Case of
the US and the National Flood Insurance Policy Natalie Rauscher and Welf
Werner
6. Rainfall Seasonality, Droughts, and Business Tirthankar Roy and
Chinmay Tumbe
7. From Pastoral to Industrial Agriculture: Global Food Chains
and the Drivers of Climate Change Simon Mowatt
8. Climate Change and the
Business (History) of Energy Marten Boon
9. Climate Change and Corporate
Adaptation: The Evolution of the Wine Industry in the Andes Teresa da Silva
Lopes and Andrea Lluch
10. Towards a New Type of Tourism? From Conventional
Tourism to Ecotourism in the Alps Laurent Tissot
11. Climate Change and the
Insurance Industry: The Long Road to the UNEP 1995 Insurance Statement Niels
Viggo Haueter
12. Business Facing Activism: Organized Business and Civil
Society Movements in Germany and Switzerland since the 1970s Sabine Pitteloud
13. From Whitewashing to Greenwashing (and Back Again) Paul Duguid and Teresa
da Silva Lopes
14. The Construction of Climate as a Business Risk through ESG
and Sustainable Finance Judith Stroehle
15. Big Business and Climate Change
Litigation in the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century Bart Elmore
Teresa da Silva Lopes is Professor of International Business and Business History at the School for Business and Society, and Director of the Centre for the Evolution of Global Business and Institutions (CEGBI) at the University of York, UK.
Paul Duguid is Adjunct Professor Emeritus in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Robert Fredona is Research Associate at Harvard Business School, USA.
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