<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The paper aims to emphasize, based on an interdisciplinary and multi-level approach, on the actual and potential contributions of businesses towards a green economic development - through the positive integration of the environmental challenges within their initiatives and strategies. The main objectives that the paper will target in order to accomplish this mission are: (1). to outline the general framework of the green economic development; (2). to identify the specific environmental challenges businesses could and have to address in order to support the green economic development; (3). to analyze particular initiatives and strategies which have been successfully developed by companies aiming at internalizing the environmental imperative - and to argue in favor of a new business model, able to end, through the green economic development, a virtuous circle of co-evolution between businesses and the environment.</p></abstract>

The paper aims to emphasize, based on an interdisciplinary and multi-level approach, on the actual and potential contributions of businesses towards a green economic development - through the positive integration of the environmental challenges within their initiatives and strategies. The main objectives that the paper will target in order to accomplish this mission are: (1). to outline the general framework of the green economic development; (2). to identify the specific environmental challenges businesses could and have to address in order to support the green economic development; (3). to analyze particular initiatives and strategies which have been successfully developed by companies aiming at internalizing the environmental imperative - and to argue in favor of a new business model, able to end, through the green economic development, a virtuous circle of co-evolution between businesses and the environment.

Corporate Initiatives and Strategies to Meet the Environmental Challenges – Contributions Towards a Green Economic Development

Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania

Studies in Business and Economics

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The paper aims to emphasize, based on an interdisciplinary and multi-level approach, on the actual and potential contributions of businesses towards a green...

Corporate Initiatives and Strategies to Meet the Environmental Challenges – Contributions Towards a Green Economic Development

Data publikacji: 02 mar 2016

Zakres stron: 62 - 70

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sbe-2015-0036

Słowa kluczowe
green economic development, environmental challenges, corporate initiatives and strategies

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Corporate Initiatives and Strategies to Meet the Environmental Challenges – Contributions Towards a Green Economic Development

Data publikacji: 02 mar 2016

Zakres stron: 62 - 70

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sbe-2015-0036

Słowa kluczowegreen economic development, environmental challenges, corporate initiatives and strategies

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Słowa kluczowe
green economic development, environmental challenges, corporate initiatives and strategies