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When this classic text was first published in 1992 it provided a unique focus for the burgeoning concern for sustainability and sustainable organizational practices. The book's impact continues to be felt today as large multinational corporations are making substantial commitments to the 'triple bottom line' of economic success, social responsibility, and environmental protection, and sustainability has become a part of curricula in business schools around the globe. Featuring extensive new material throughout, this new edition of "Management for a Small Planet" maintains the same unique vision and approach that made the original so influential. Unlike other texts on the topic, it employs a strategic, general management perspective within theoretical frameworks on how organizations can be instrumental in moving humankind toward a more sustainable world. Part I includes chapters dedicated to each dimension of sustainability: biophysical, economic, and social. Part II contains the specifics on the formulation and implementation of sustainable management practices, all grounded in the principles of organizational behavior, leadership, and business strategy. The book is an ideal text for any course concerned with environmental management and sustainable management practices.

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• Preface
• Part I Business Happens on a Small Planet
• 1 Management Meets a Small Planet
• The Earth Is a Small Planet
• Becoming Part of Something Larger
• A New Perspective for Managers
• Sustainability: Transcending the Manager's Divergent Dilemmas
• Organizations Coevolving with Their Environments
• Pursuing the Triple Bottom Line
• Transforming to Sustainable Organizational Management
• Plan of the Book
• 2 Management Happens on Earth: The Biophysical Dimension of Sustainability
• The Coevolving Earth
• Carrying Capacity Meets the Human Footprint
• Conclusions
• 3 Economics as if the Planet Mattered: The Economic Dimension of Sustainability
• Inadequate Economic Assumptions
• A New Economics for a Coevolving World
• Conclusions
• 4 Searching for Equity: The Social Dimension of Sustainability
• The Injustice of Distributive Inequity
• Distributive Equity: Searching for Economic, Social and Environmental Justice
• Conclusions
• Part II Managing on a Small Planet
• 5 Coevolution and Sustainable Organizational Management
• Coevolution: Meta-Theory for Sustainable Organizational Management
• Coevolution, Organizational Renewal, and The Rise of New Organizational Forms
• Conclusions
• 6 Leading the Way to Sustainable Organizational Management
• Strategic Leadership: Human Energy for Sustainable Organizational Management
• Standing for Sustainability
• Conclusions
• 7 Creating Sustainable Stakeholder Value
• The Coevolutionary Competitive Environment
• Stakeholder Value Creation Processes
• Adding Stakeholder Value Via Eco- and Socio-Efficiency
• Developing Eco- and Socio-Efficient Capabilities
• Conclusions
• 8 Sustainable Strategic Management
• The SSM Corporate Portfolio
• Defining the Corporate SSM Mission
• Coevolving Global Markets
• SSM Strategies
• Sustainable Management Systems
• Conclusions
• 9 Capabilities for Managing on a Small Planet: A Final Look
• Coevolving Sustainable Organizational Management Capabilities
• The Road to Sustainable Organizational Management
• Conclusions: Redefining Managerial Success
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Authors

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CHOICE Review

With the passion and zest of their classic earlier editions (2nd ed., CH, Nov'96, 34-1646; 1st ed., CH, Nov'92, 30-1625), the authors (both, East Tennessee State Univ.) continue their persuasive argument for a strategic leadership model in which success is measured not only by economic achievements but also by a leader's social conscience and concern for global sustainability. The book's interesting and well-written chapters are divided into two parts: "Business Happens on a Small Planet" and "Managing on a Small Planet." Part 1 covers the spectrum of socioeconomic and biophysical issues related to sustainability. Part 2 examines changes that will be necessary for businesses, as an integral component of their economic viability, to embrace the paradigm of sustainability and to incorporate a sustainable strategic management culture into their organizations. Excellent new materials, revised examples, and updated references enhance the chapters. The bibliography provides a valuable reference source for anyone interested in environmental management or sustainable practices. See related, The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook, ed. by Jeana Wirtenberg et al. (CH, 46-3947), and Marc Epstein's Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts (CH, Oct'08, 46-0995). Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels of undergraduate students, practitioners, and general readers. S. R. Kahn University of Cincinnati