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Corporate Environmentalism, Epistemological Review & Ontological Position

In: Mandated Corporate Social Responsibility

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  • Shekhar Suman

    (Indian Institute of Management (IIM))

  • Satyasiba Das

    (Indian Institute of Management (IIM))

Abstract

Since recent past, a good number of organizations have voluntarily started accepting green practices to make contributions to the environmental well-being by reducing wastes, developing green products, constructing their buildings in the most efficient greener way, recycling their wastes into marketable products and many other ways to make themselves green. Consumers have started demanding for green products and companies are more than happy to satisfy their demand by producing environmentally friendly products. A quest to reduce cost had led to environmentally friendly innovationInnovation that has led to a “win-win situation” for all the stakeholdersStakeholders . By going green, companies are attracting more investors to fund them, which would have remained stagnant otherwise without any funds for expansion. In this article, we have examined the main drivers of Corporate EnvironmentalismCorporate Environmentalism (CE) on a global level such as market forces, government and civil regulations. The article discusses the relation between Corporate EnvironmentalismCorporate Environmentalism with stakeholder satisfaction and employee retention and found positive relations among them. Green firms also pressurize their suppliers and other stakeholdersStakeholders to engage in acts of corporate environmentalismCorporate Environmentalism to avoid the criticism of green wash. CorporateCorporate eco-efficiencyEco-efficiency brings the benefits of both economic prosperity and environmental protection and states that “A clean environmentEnvironment is actually good for businessBusiness , for it connotes happy and healthy workers, profits for companies, developing conservation technologies, selling green product and efficiency in material usage”. The article also explains the environmentalism scenario in Indian subcontinent.

Suggested Citation

  • Shekhar Suman & Satyasiba Das, 2020. "Corporate Environmentalism, Epistemological Review & Ontological Position," CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, in: Nayan Mitra & René Schmidpeter (ed.), Mandated Corporate Social Responsibility, pages 199-213, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:csrchp:978-3-030-24444-6_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-24444-6_11
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    Cited by:

    1. Paulina Kubera, 2023. "Behavioural Insights in Corporate Sustainability Research: A Review and Future Agenda," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(19), pages 1-15, September.
    2. Farida Saleem & Yingying Zhang-Zhang & Muhammad Imran Malik & Alawiya Allui, 2020. "Revisiting Stakeholder Theory and Environmentalism: Evidence from an Emerging Economy," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(20), pages 1-20, October.

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