Corporation 2020 : transforming business for tomorrow's world /

Corporation 2020 : transforming business for tomorrow's world /

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Author / Creator:	Sukhdev, Pavan.
Imprint:	Washington, DC : Island Press, ©2012.
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 275 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Social responsibility of business. Corporations -- Environmental aspects. Industries -- Environmental aspects. Corporations -- Environmental aspects. Industries -- Environmental aspects. Social responsibility of business.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12539795

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ISBN:	1610913604 9781610913607 9781610912389 1610912381 9781610912396 161091239X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	There is an emerging consensus that all is not well with today's market-centric economic model. Although it has delivered wealth over the last half century and pulled millions out of poverty, it is recession-prone, leaves too many unemployed, creates ecological scarcities and environmental risks, and widens the gap between the rich and the poor. Around $1 trillion a year in perverse subsidies and barriers to entry for alternative products maintain "business-as-usual" while obscuring their associated environmental and societal costs. The result is the broken system of social inequity, environmental degradation, and political manipulation that marks today's corporations. We aren't stuck with this dysfunctional corporate model, but business needs a new DNA if it is to enact the comprehensive approach we need. Pavan Sukhdev lays out a sweeping new vision for tomorrow's corporation: one that will increase human wellbeing and social equity, decrease environmental risks and ecological losses, and still generate profit. Through a combination of internal changes in corporate governance and external regulations and policies, Corporation 2020 can become a reality in the next decade-and it must, argues Sukhdev, if we are to avert catastrophic social imbalance and ecological harm. Corporation 2020 presents new approaches to measuring the true costs of business and the corporation's obligation to society. From his insightful look into the history of the corporation to his thoughtful discussion of the steps needed to craft a better corporate model, Sukhdev offers a hopeful vision for the role of business in shaping a more equitable, sustainable future.
Other form:	Print version: Sukhdev, Pavan. Corporation 2020. Washington, DC : Island Press, ©2012 9781610912389
Standard no.:	99953668913

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Summary:	There is an emerging consensus that all is not well with today's market-centric economic model. Although it has delivered wealth over the last half century and pulled millions out of poverty, it is recession-prone, leaves too many unemployed, creates ecological scarcities and environmental risks, and widens the gap between the rich and the poor. Around $1 trillion a year in perverse subsidies and barriers to entry for alternative products maintain "business-as-usual" while obscuring their associated environmental and societal costs. The result is the broken system of social inequity, environmental degradation, and political manipulation that marks today's corporations.<br> <br> We aren't stuck with this dysfunctional corporate model, but business needs a new DNA if it is to enact the comprehensive approach we need. Pavan Sukhdev lays out a sweeping new vision for tomorrow's corporation: one that will increase human wellbeing and social equity, decrease environmental risks and ecological losses, and still generate profit. Through a combination of internal changes in corporate governance and external regulations and policies, Corporation 2020 can become a reality in the next decade--and it must, argues Sukhdev, if we are to avert catastrophic social imbalance and ecological harm.<br> <br> Corporation 2020 presents new approaches to measuring the true costs of business and the corporation's obligation to society. From his insightful look into the history of the corporation to his thoughtful discussion of the steps needed to craft a better corporate model, Sukhdev offers a hopeful vision for the role of business in shaping a more equitable, sustainable future.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 275 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	1610913604 9781610913607 9781610912389 1610912381 9781610912396 161091239X