Corporate responsibility and systems thinking – tools for balanced risk management
| Autor: | Petteri Vihervaara, Matti Kamppinen, Nina Aarras |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
Sociology and Political Science
business.industry Geography Planning and Development Management Monitoring Policy and Law Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Corporate action Environmental economics Ecosystem services Corporate social responsibility Systems thinking Business Industrial ecology Forest industry Life-cycle assessment Risk management |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Sustainable Society. 1:158 |
| ISSN: | 1756-2546 1756-2538 |
| DOI: | 10.1504/ijssoc.2008.022572 |
| Popis: | Corporate responsibility amounts to taking into consideration conditions and effects that are systematically linked to corporate action. Systems thinking and its variants offer tools for understanding and managing the multitudes of conditions and effects that constitute corporate responsibility. We look first at the general tools of systems thinking, and then at a case of Finnish forest industry, and assessment of four particular systemic concepts that could be used to improve corporate environmental management: life cycle assessment, regionality, industrial ecosystem and ecosystem services. We conclude that systems thinking in one form or in another is a precondition for balanced economic, social and environmental management. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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