CHINA EDITION - Sustainable Champions

How International Companies are Changing the Face of Business in China
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78353-364-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

In the face of strong competitive pressure and a dynamic market, multinational companies in China are forced to innovate with extraordinary pace and inventiveness. Environmental sustainability is a vital benchmark, and is a key driver for the best companies in each sector – many of them allied with the WWF Climate Savers programme.

Sustainable Champions shows how nine leading multinational companies - including Nestlé, HP, Tetra Pak and Sony - are dealing with environmental, supply chain and ethical challenges in China. The book illuminates some of their transformative practices, and the impact this is having on business in China and beyond. The concluding cross-case analysis of supply chain and environmental challenges faced by leading international firms presents key lessons for business and for sustainability champions.

Sustainable Champions: How International Companies are Changing the Face of Business in China is essential reading for researchers and course leaders seeking on-the-ground examples of local environmental challenges, and any company doing business in one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.

With a Foreword by Simon Zadek, Distinguished Fellow, Academy of Business in Society, Visiting Scholar, Tsinghua School of Economics and Management.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jia, Fu

Gosling, Jonathan

Witzel, Morgen

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The context of doing business in China

1 Responsible Tourism: Fairmont Hotels

2 Learning to Be Sustainable: Hewlett-Packard

3 Sourcing Strategy in China: Nestlé

4 Sustainable Practice in China: SKF

5 On the ‘Road to Zero’: Son

y6 One Step Ahead: Tetra Pak

7 Sustainable Supply Chain Strategy: Vanke8 Towards Sustainable Mobility: Volvo

9 Sustainable Value Chain Strategy: YingliConclusion: Key lessons for business and for sustainability champions

Über Autor(innen)

Fu Jia, Jonathan Gosling, Morgen Witzel