Eco-Enterprise Strategy: Standing for Sustainability
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-11-2000
Description
Enterprise strategy provides an accepted theoretical framework for integrating the moral responsibilities of organizations into their strategy formulation and implementation processes. We argue that, when extended to the ecological level of analysis, enterprise strategy provides a sound theoretical framework for ethically and strategically accounting for the ultimate stakeholder, planet Earth. Within the framework of enterprise strategy, a value system based on sustainability can provide a sound ethical basis for developing ecologically sensitive strategic management systems which allow organizations to satisfy the demands of the myriad green stakeholders that represent the planet in the immediate business arena. This provides a new "flavor" of enterprise strategy in which organizations "stand for sustainability." We call this new flavor "eco-enterprise strategy.".
Citation Information
Stead, Jean Garner; and Stead, Edward. 2000. Eco-Enterprise Strategy: Standing for Sustainability. Journal of Business Ethics. Vol.24(4). 313-329. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006188725928 ISSN: 0167-4544