Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to Environmental Sustainability: Past Roads and Future Prospects (Spring 2019)
Bergquist, Ann-Kristin (Author)
Cole, Shawn A. (Author)
Ehrenfeld, John (Author)
King, Andrew A. (Author)
Schendler, Auden (Author)
Business History Review
Volume: 93
Issue: 1
Pages: 127-148
This article examines key barriers to business sustainability discussed at a multidisciplinary conference held at the Harvard Business School in 2018. Drawing on perspectives from both the historical and business literatures, speakers debated the historical success of and future opportunities for voluntary business actions to advance sustainability. Roadblocks include misaligned incentives, missing institutions, inertia of economic systems, and the concept of sustainability itself. Overcoming these roadblocks will require systematic interventions and alternative normative concepts.
...MoreArticle Ann-Kristin Bergquist (Spring 2019) Renewing Business History in the Era of the Anthropocene. Business History Review (pp. 3-24).
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