Michael Blowfield Books

Climate change, resource constraints, and sustainability are critical topics in modern business. New enterprises are emerging to tackle 21st-century environmental challenges, while established industries are adapting to stringent regulations to maintain their licenses. Multinational corporations are increasingly linking their efforts to combat issues like poverty and deforestation to their financial performance. This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of how global sustainability challenges impact and are influenced by business, catering to the rising demand for courses focused on sustainability at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The author combines practitioner insights with theoretical perspectives, exploring sustainability across three core areas: the global business context, business management and ownership, and the external environment. Each section includes chapters on specific sustainability aspects, supported by a variety of global case studies and exercises. This resource serves as a concise summary of contemporary sustainability issues for educators and students seeking a singular reference on the topic. Additionally, it offers online resources, teaching suggestions for case studies, PowerPoint slides, and links to films and other audiovisual materials for classroom use, along with electronic versions of figures and diagrams from the book.

This much needed textbook examines the multiple dimensions to corporate responsibility, creating a framework that presents a historical and interdisciplinary overview of the field, a summary of different management approaches, and a review of the key actors and trends worldwide.The authors take a critical perspective and successfully provide a balance between theory and practice. They offer comprehensive coverage of the subject, combining an insightful, interdisciplinary, approach with the pedagogy and support sought after by students.An online resource centre will accompany the text, comprising weblinks, new legislation, further reading, email listservs and links to courses for students, and case studies and essay questions for lecturers.