What Is Strategic Environmental Management (SEM)?
SEM and Competitiveness
Implementing SEM
Tools for SEM
Elkington, John. "Towards the Sustainable Corporation." California Management Review 36, no. 2 (Winter 1994): 90-100.
Hart, Stuart. "A Natural-Resource-Based View of the Firm." Academy of Management Review 20, no. 4 (October 1995): 986-1,014.
Schot, Johan, and Kurt Fischer. "Introduction: The Greening of the Industrial Firm." In Environmental Strategies for Industry, 3-33. Washington: Island Press, 1993.
Shrivastava, Paul. "The Role of Corporations in Achieving Ecological Sustainability." Academy of Management Review 20, no. 4 (October 1995): 936-960.
Trisoglio, Alex. "International Business and Sustainable Development." Green Globe Yearbook, ed. Helge Bergesen and Georg Parmann, 87-100. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Hart, Stuart, and Gautum Ahuja. "Does It Pay to Be Green? An Empirical Examination of the
Relationship Between Pollution Prevention and Firm Performance." University of Michigan
School of Business Administration Working Paper no. 9550-09. Presented at the Academy of
Management Annual Meeting, U-M, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1994.
Heaton, George, Robert Repetto, and Rodney Sobin. "Transforming Technology: An Agenda for
Environmentally Sustainable Growth in the 21st Century." Washington: World Resources
Institute, 1991. [To order, call 800/822-0504 or send e-mail to valerie@wri.org; or see WRI on the Web.]
Hoerner, J. Andrew, Alan Miller, and Frank Muller. "Promoting Growth and Job Creation
Through
Emerging Environmental Technologies." Research Report of the National Commission for
Employment Policy. Washington: NCEP, April 1995.
Jaffe, Adam, Steven Peterson, and Paul Portney. "Environmental Regulation and the
Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing: What Does the Evidence Tell Us?" Journal of
Economic Literature 33 (March 1995): 132-163.
King, Andrew. "Improved Manufacturing Resulting from Learning from Waste." Presented at
the
Academy of Management Annual Meeting, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1994.
Management Institute for Environment and Business. "Competitive Implications of
Environmental
Regulation: A Study of Six Industries." 1994. [To order, call 800/822-0504 or send e-mail to
chrisd@wri.org; or see MEB on the Web]
Porter, Michael, and Claas van der Linde. "Green and Competitive." Harvard Business
Review 73 (September-October 1995): 120-134.
Walley, Noah, and Bradley Whitehead. "It's Not Easy Being Green." Harvard
Business
Review 72, no. 11-12 (May-June, 1994): 46-52.
Geffen, Donald, and Alfred Marcus. "Pollution Prevention --- Overcoming Barriers to Further
Progress." Ann Arbor: NPPC, 1998. [Available as part of this compendium.]
Frankel, Carl. "Four Top Guns." Tomorrow 4, no. 4 (October/December 1994): 10-
15.
Gladwin, Thomas. "The Meaning of Greening: A Plea for Organizational Theory." In
Environmental Strategies for Industry, ed. Johan Schot and Kurt Fischer, 37-61.
Washington: Island Press, 1993.
Hoffman, Andrew. "Organizational Change and the Greening Process: A Case Study of the
Amoco Corporation." Total Quality Environmental Management 4, no. 1 (Fall
1994;
New York: Executive Enterprises).
Rothenberg, Sandra, James Maxwell, and Alfred Marcus. "Issues in the Implementation of
Proactive Environmental Strategies." Business Strategy and the Environment,
Part
4 (Winter 1992-93; Bradford, England: European Research Press): 1-12.
Shanely, Agnes. "Pollution Prevention Has a Long Way to Go." Chemical Engineering
100, no. 11 (November 1993): 30-43.
Freeman, Harry, Teresa Harten, Johnny Springer, Paul Randall, Mary Ann Curran, and Kenneth
Stone, "Industrial Pollution Prevention: A Critical Review." Journal of the Air and
Waste
Management Association 42, no. 5 (May 1992): 618-656.
"Pollution Prevention: A Guide to Program Implementation." Champaign: Illinois Hazardous
Waste
Research and Information Center, 1993. [Available free from the publisher---call 217/333-8940
or
e-mail lbarnes@wmrc.hazard.uiuc.edu.]
President's Commission on Environmental Quality, Quality Management Subcommittee. Total
Quality Management: A Framework for Pollution Prevention. Washington: PCEQ, January
1993.
Woods, Sandra. "Making Pollution Prevention Part of the Coors Culture." Total Quality
Environmental Management 3, no. 1 (Autumn 1993): 31-38.
Hunt, Robert, Jere Sellers, and William Franklin. "Resource and Environmental Profile
Analysis: A
Life Cycle Environmental Assessment for Products and Procedures." Environmental
Impact Assessment Review 12 (1992): 245-269.
Klannen, Robert, and Noel Greis. "Managing Environmental Improvement Through Product and
Process Innovation: Implications of Environmental Life Cycle Assessment." Industrial
Crisis
Quarterly 7, no. 4 (1993).
Schaltegger, Stefan, and Andreas Sturm. "Eco-Controlling: An Integrated Economic Ecological
Management Tool." In Green Business Opportunities, ed. Dominik Koechlin and
Kaspar Muller. London: Pitman Publishing, 1993.
Prewitt, Edward. "Laidlaw Environmental Services" (1993; rev. August 16,1994). Case 9-794-
016. [Available from Harvard Business School
Publishing.]
Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc. "Source Reduction Project in Plant #23." Faribault, MN:
CCSC,
1993. [Available from the company: 612/334-3388.]
Murray, Fiona. "Xerox: Design for the Environment" (1993; rev. May 4, 1995). Case 9-794-022.
[Available from Harvard Business School
Publishing.]
Prewitt, Edward. "Allied-Signal: Managing the Hazardous Waste Liability Risk" (1992).
Case 9-
793-044. [Available from Harvard Business
School
Publishing.]
Stark, Richard. "Polaroid: Managing Environmental Responsibilities and Their Costs" (1993;
rev.
April 21, 1994). Case 9-194-052. [Available from Harvard Business School Publishing.]
Upton, David. "McDonald's Corporation 1992 Operations, Flexibility and the Environment"
(1992). Case 9-693-028. [Available from Harvard
Business School Publishing.]
Zosel, Thomas. "Case Study: How 3M Makes Pollution Prevention Pay Big Dividends."
Pollution Prevention Review (Winter 1990-91): 67-73.
Marcus, Alfred. "New Product Development at General Motors." In
Business and Society: Strategy, Ethics, and the Global Economy,
421-431. Chicago: Irwin Press, 1995.
Marcus, Alfred, and Donald Geffen. "Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) and
Ethanol." In Business and Society: Strategy, Ethics, and the Global
Economy, 463-473. Chicago: Irwin Press, 1995.
Matheson, Andrew. "Renewable Energy in the United States" (1993; rev. May
4, 1995). Case 9-794-087. [Available from Harvard Business School
Publishing.]
Vietor, Richard H. K., and Forest Reinhardt. Business Management and
the Natural Environment. Cincinnati: South-Western Publishing Co.,
1995. [700 pp.; $45. To order, call 800/543-0487 or fax 513/527-6235.]
Willis, Vincent. "Archer Daniels Midland" (1992). Case 9-593-028.
[Available from Harvard Business
School Publishing.]
Stuart Hart
Anne Illinitch
Alfie Marcus
Michael V. Russo
Stefan Schaltegger
Paul Shrivastava
Mark Starik
Richard Vietor
Professor Stefan Schaltegger's syllabus for "Corporate
Environmental Accounting and Controlling," taught at the Norwegian
School of Management.
Academy of Management
Online has information on the AOM's divisions, placement,
publications (such as Academy of Management Review), members,
and listservs.
World Resources
Institute's online Annotated Guide to environmental management and
sustainability teaching resources for business professors. Roughly 200
cases published by WRI, Darden School of Business, Harvard Business
School, the NPPC, and more are listed. Case studies are searchable by
publisher and by subject; abstracts and o rdering information are
included.
Business for Social Responsibility
provides "assistance to companies seeking to implement policies and
practices which contribute to the long-term, sustained and responsible
success of their enterprises and which fairly balance the competing
claims of key stakeholders, their investors, employees, customers,
business partners, communities, and the environment."
Sustainable Business
Network lists opportunities for investors and partners, distributors
and licensees, and capital/contracts.
World Business Council on Sustainable
Development is "a coalition of 125 international companies united
by a shared commitment to the environment and to the principles of
economic growth and sustainable development."
E-mail:nppc@umich.edu
SEM and Competitiveness
"The Challenge of Going Green." Harvard Business Review 72, no. 13-14 (July-
August 1994): 3-14. Implementing SEM
Bunge, John, Edward Cohen-Rosenthal, and Antonio Ruiz-Quintanilla. "Employee
Participation
in Pollution Reduction." Cornell University Center for Advanced Human Resources Studies---
Working Paper 95-15. Ithaca: CAHRS; May 1, 1995. [Available online or from Kim Fritz-Sharpsteen (607/255-9358 or kas21@cornell.edu).] Tools for SEM
Pollution Prevention
Bierma, Thomas, and Francis Waterstraat. Pollution Prevention and Business Management:
Curricula for Schools of Business and Public Health. Champaign: Illinois Hazardous Waste
Research Information Center, 1995. [Available from the publisher. Modules 1-3 plus the
instructor's Manual (TR-024) are cost $5; a package of supplemental readings (TR-025) costs $10.
To order, call 217/333-8940 or e-mail lbarnes@wmrc.hazard.uiuc.edu.]Financial Analysis for P2
American Institute for Pollution Prevention. A Primer for Financial Analysis of Pollution
Prevention Projects. EPA/600/R-93/059. Washington: U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, 1993. [Available free from NCEPI: call 800/490-9198 or send a fax to 513/489-
8695.]Environmental Accounting
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics. An
Introduction to Environmental Accounting As A Business Management Tool. EPA/742/R-
95/001. Washington: U.S. EPA, 1995. [Available free from NCEPI: call 800/490-9198 or send a
fax to 513/489-8695.]Environmental Impact Assessment
Pratt, Gregory, Paul Gerbec, et. al. "An Indexing System for Comparing Toxic Air Pollutants
Based
Upon Their Potential Environmental Impacts." Chemosphere 27, no. 8 (1993):
1,359-1,379. Total Quality Environmental
Management
Dambach, Barry F., and Braden R. Allenby. "Implementing Design for Environment at AT&T."
Total Quality Environmental Management 4, no. 3 (Spring 1995): 51-62.Benchmarking
Klafter, Brenda, et. al. "Environmental Benchmarking: AT&T and Intel's Project to Determine
the
Best in Class Corporate Pollution Prevention Programs." Corporate
Quality/Environmental
Management III (Spring 1995): 37-44. Design for Environment
Keoleian, Gregory, and Dan Menerey. "Sustainable Development by Design: Review of Life
Cycle
Design and Related Approaches." Air and Waste 44 (May 1994): 645-667.Life Cycle Analyses
Allen, David, and Kirsten Sinclair Rosselot. "Pollution Prevention at the Macro Scale: Flows of
Wastes, Industrial Ecology, and Life Cycle Analyses." Waste Management 14,
no. 3-
4 (1994): 317-328.Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing
Sarkis, Joseph. "Manufacturing Strategy and Environmental Consciousness."
Technovation 15, no. 2 (1995): 79-97.Green Marketing
Westley, Frances, and Harrie Vredenburg. "Strategic Bridging: The Collaboration Between
Environmentalists and Business in the Marketing of Green Products." Journal of Applied
Behavioral Science 27, no. 1 (March 1991) 65-90.Eco-Integrated Portfolio Analysis
Ilinitch, Anne, and Stefan Schaltegger. "Eco-Integrated Portfolio Analysis: A Strategic Tool
for
Managing Sustainably." Journal of Long-Range Planning 28, no. 2 (April 1995):
29-
38.Case Studies
Creating Value With Environmental Strategies
and Structures
Koppell, Carla. "Pioneer Hi-Bred International: Developing an Environmental Statement and
Strategy" (1992). Case 9-593-045. [Available from Harvard Business School Publishing.] Creating Value Through Environmental
Practices
Ahearn, James, Harry Fatkin, and William Schwalm. "Case Study: Polaroid Corporation's
Systematic Approach to Waste Minimization." Pollution Prevention Review
(Summer
1991): 257-271.Creating Value With New Products and
Changes in Business Portfolios
Jankus, Mark. "ARCO Solar, Inc." In Business and Society: Strategy, Ethics, and the
Global
Economy, by A. Marcus, 390-403. Chicago: Irwin Press, 1995.Mentor Faculty
Thomas Gladwin
Stern School of Business
44 West 4th Street
New York, NY 10012-1126
212/998-0426
tgladwin@stern.nyu.edu
Kenan-Flagler Business School
University of North Carolina
Campus Box 3490, McColl Building
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3490
919/962-8404
harts@icarus.bschool.unc.edu
Kenan-Flagler Business School
University of North Carolina
Campus Box 3490, McColl Building
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3490
919/962-3141
ilinitch@isis.unc.edu
Strategic Management and Organization
Carlson School of Management
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612/624-2812
amarcus@csom.umn.edu
Management Department
Lundquist College of Business
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1208
541/346-5182
mrusso@oregon.uoregon.edu
Center of Economics and Business Administration (IVW-WWZ)
University of Basel, Petersgraben 51
CH - 4051 Basel, Switzerland
(+ 41 - 61) 267 - 33 60; Fax: (+ 41 - 61) 267 - 33 40
schaltegger@urz.unibas.ch
Howard I. Scott Professor of Management
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, PA 17837
717/524-1821
shrivast@bucknell.edu
School of Business and Public Management
The George Washington University
Washington, D.C. 20052
202/994-5621
starik@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
Harvard Business School
Morgan Hall 285
Boston MA 02163
617/495-6460
rvietor@hbs.eduRelated Web Sites
Professor Paul
Shrivastava's course syllabus is imaginatively formatted. Includes
assignments and a resource page with links to online articles, databases,
news services, and related websites.To add to this List
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