ECO-EFFICIENCY FOR FUTURE SCENARIOS OF CORPORATE ENVIRONMETAL ACTIVITY

Eco-Efficiency in Corporate Budgeting

Probable Scenarios of Future Ethics

Life in today's global village has two ontological and epistemological aspects. One problem of the globalized world related to these two aspects, which will be discussed in this article first is the fact that the civilization of the globalized world has, in some ways, been disconnected from its culture, since civilization moves towards collectivism whereas culture moves towards ind...

Value drivers of corporate eco-efficiency: Management accounting information for the efficient use of environmental resources

Eco-efficiency is oftentimes considered the gold standard for managerial decision making in an environmental context because it seemingly reconciles the efficient use of capital and the efficient use of environmental resources. We challenge this view by disaggregating eco-efficiency to provide an in-depth analysis of corporate eco-efficiency and to identify the drivers of an efficient use of en...

The efficiency and eco-efficiency of manufacturing

In this paper, we review the efficiency of both manufacturing processes and systems over recent decades and compare nano-materials technologies in this context. To a first approximation, nano-materials processes appear to be about as efficient as semi-conductor processes. That is, their second law efficiencies are of the order 10, while conventional processes are of order 10. However, many of t...

Exploring Corporate Eco-modernism: Challenging Corporate Rhetoric and Scientific Discourses

Despite the fact that environmental problems have been recognised as legitimate phenomena since the early 1970s, they did not really attract the attention of industrialists and management theorists until the beginning of the 1990s. During the last ten years, industry has been central in shaping a new corporate environmentalism. Now, we argue, it is time to take a critical look at the nature and...