Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Investments in the Green Economy

Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Investments in the Green Economy

Andrei Jean Vasile, Domenico Nicolò

Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 339

ISBN13: 9781522520757|ISBN10: 1522520759|EISBN13: 9781522520764

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2075-7

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The protection of the environment and economic growth are two important aspects of modern sustainability initiatives. By placing these two together, a competitive advantage is developed by utilizing green factors with investing.

Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Investments in the Green Economy is an essential reference publication for the latest research on green entrepreneurship and its impacts on investment activity within sustainable development and competitive markets. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics and perspectives such as contemporary enterprises, global feeding, and waste management, this book is ideally designed for practitioners, students, and academicians seeking current research on green entrepreneurship and investments.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Advances in Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage (ABSCA) Book Series

Editorial Advisory Board and List of Reviewers

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Chapter 1

Young Firms Sustainability and Corporate Reputation: A Comparison of the Survival Rates in the US and EU (pages 1-27)

Domenico Nicolò

Although young firms are very vulnerable, significant differences emerge by comparing the survival rates of the companies in the first stage of life in different countries and industries, of different sizes, and with different...

Chapter 2

Theoretical and Practical Approaches in Understanding the Influences of Cost-Productivity-Profit Trinomial in Contemporary Enterprises (pages 28-62)

Andrei Jean-Vasile, Alexandra Alecu

Enterprise sustainability depends on the economic performance. Achieving the economic performance is the main goal of every company since the beginnings. The instability of the economic environment imposes finding new paradigms in...

Chapter 3

Integrated Sustainability Reports: Historical Survey, Theoretical Proposals and Best Practices (pages 63-99)

Massimo Costa, Giuseppe Valenza

Disclosure of corporate social and environmental sustainability, resumed in ‘sustainability reports', have occupied most of the attention of accounting thought and practice over the last few decades. Evaluation of ecological...

Chapter 4

A Game Theory Coopetitive Perspective for Sustainability of Global Feeding: Agreements Among Vegan and Non-Vegan Food Firms (pages 100-143)

David Carfì, Alessia Donato, Dania Panuccio

Throughout this study, the authors propose possible agreements among different food producers, in order to develop a new better conceived diet for the future generations, by using a coopetitive approach and game theory. Specifically...

Chapter 5

Green Information System for a Sustainable Enterprise (pages 144-168)

Laura-Diana Radu

The changes made in the environment as a consequence of massive industrialization led to a change in the vision of mankind on how organizations should interact with the ecosystem. In the same time information system has a key role in...

Chapter 6

The Role of Waste Management in the Green Economy: An Empirical Analysis of Economic Data of the Business (pages 169-199)

Massimo Saita, Maria Vittoria Franceschelli

Green economy has become highly relevant over the last years. We are currently experiencing pollution issue and environmental decay that had its origin, however, in the previous centuries. The development of industrial economy...

Chapter 7

Green Marketing: A New Prospect in the Cosmetics Industry (pages 200-230)

Nur Suhaili Ramli

This chapter proposes an important study of the cosmetics industry in relation to green marketing and sustainability concerns from the historical context and its evolution to the present day. The aim of this chapter is to explain the...

Chapter 8

Green Airport Investments to Mitigate Externalities: Procedural and Technological Strategies (pages 231-256)

Maria Nadia Postorino, Luca Mantecchini, Filippo Paganelli

Transport systems are important pollution sources, mainly in terms of greenhouse gases, noise and land consumption. To mitigate the problem and safeguard airport development at the same time, the involved stakeholders are fixing...

Chapter 9

Cover Crops: Achievement of Sustainability in the Ecological Systems of Agriculture (pages 257-281)

Vladan Ugrenović, Vladimir Filipović

The use of cover crops is widespread practice in organic farming systems. Cover crops can be defined as crops that are usually not grown commercially, and can have a multiple role in crop rotations. The benefit of cover crops has...

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