Empirical research on Sustainability Management

Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: 1,3, University of Lneburg, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Environmental management practices are influenced by :
- external stakeholders such as governments, regulators, customers, competitors, the community, environmental groups and industry associations
- firm characteristics and organizational structure
- industry effects

Analyzing the possible reactions of the actors involved in these three aspects could help finding out the implications of a given trend in the reality of environmental management in ten years time.