Growing tomorrow's business leaders

This chapter examines the scaling and diffusion of green entrepreneurship between 1980 and the present. It explores how entrepreneurs and business leaders promoted the idea that business and sustainability were compatible. It then examines the rapid growth of organic foods, natural beauty, ecological architecture, and eco-tourism. Green firms sometimes grew to a large scale, such as the retailer Whole Foods Market in the United States. The chapter explores how greater mainstreaming of these businesses resulted in a new set of challenges arising from scaling. Organic food was now transported across large distances causing a negative impact on carbon emissions. More eco-tourism resulted in more air travel and bigger airports. In other industries scaling had a more positive impact. Towns were major polluters, so more ecological buildings had a positive impact.

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Forging a British World of Trade

10.1093/oso/9780198816713.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

David Thackeray

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

New Zealand ◽

United Nations ◽

International Collaboration ◽

League Of Nations ◽

Business Leaders ◽

Trade Relations ◽

Historical Role ◽

The Eu

Brexit is likely to lead to the largest shift in Britain’s economic orientation in living memory. Some have argued that leaving the EU will enable Britain to revive markets in Commonwealth countries with which it has long-standing historical ties. Their opponents argue that such claims are based on forms of imperial nostalgia which ignore the often uncomfortable historical trade relations between Britain and these countries, as well as the UK’s historical role as a global, rather than chiefly imperial, economy. This book explores how efforts to promote a ‘British World’ system, centred on promoting trade between Britain and the Dominions, grew and declined in influence between the 1880s and 1970s. At the beginning of the twentieth century many people from London, to Sydney, Auckland, and Toronto considered themselves to belong to culturally British nations. British politicians and business leaders invested significant resources in promoting trade with Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa out of a perception that these were great markets of the future. However, ideas about promoting trade between ‘British’ peoples were racially exclusive. From the 1920s onwards colonized and decolonizing populations questioned and challenged the bases of British World networks, making use of alternative forms of international collaboration promoted firstly by the League of Nations and then by the United Nations. Schemes for imperial collaboration amongst ethnically ‘British’ peoples were hollowed out by the actions of a variety of political and business leaders across Asia and Africa who reshaped the functions and identity of the Commonwealth.

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Capitalism Beyond Mutuality?

10.1093/oso/9780198825067.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Keyword(s):

Social Science ◽

Social Contract ◽

Well Being ◽

Business Practice ◽

Business Leaders ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Economic Paradigm ◽

The Social ◽

Modern Economic ◽

Great Output

Our quest for prosperity has produced great output but not always great outcomes. The list of concerns is growing and familiar. Fundamentally, when it comes to well-being, fairness, and the scope of our humanity, the modern economic system still leaves much to be desired. In turn, trust in business and the liberal market system (aka “capitalism”) has been declining and regulation has been rising. A variety of forces—civic, economic, and intellectual—have been probing for better alternatives. The contributions in this volume, coauthored by eminent philosophers, social scientists, and a handful of thoughtful business leaders, are submitted in this spirit. The thrust of the work is conveyed in the volume’s titular question: Capitalism Beyond Mutuality? Mutuality, or the exchange of benefits, has been established as the prime principle of interaction in addressing the chronic dilemma of human interdependence. Mutuality is a fundament in the social contract approach and it serves us well. Yet, to address the concerns outlined here, we must help evolve an economic paradigm where mutuality is more systematically complemented by reasoned and elective morality. Otherwise the state will remain the sole (if inadequate) protector and buffer between market and society. Hence, rather than just regulate power we must also educate power. Philosophy has a natural role, especially when education is the preferred vehicle of transformation. Accordingly, the essays in this volume integrate philosophy and social science to outline and explore concrete approaches to these important concerns emanating from business practice and theory.

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Book Review:Preparing Tomorrow's Business Leaders Today. Peter F. Drucker

The Journal of Business ◽

10.1086/295221 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 42 (4) ◽

pp. 497

Author(s):

G. L. Bach

Keyword(s):

Business Leaders

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What future for school business leadership? Recent change and looming possibilities

Management in Education ◽

10.1177/0892020620969855 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 089202062096985

Author(s):

Karen Starr

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

International Research ◽

Recent Change ◽

Business Leaders ◽

Business Leadership ◽

School Communities ◽

The Cross ◽

School Business ◽

Developed World ◽

Policies And Practices

Fundamental widespread changes affecting education’s purposes, policies and practices have had transformational repercussions for school business across the developed world. Subsequently, school business demands and accountabilities continue to escalate in scope and complexity and governments, education authorities and school communities are acknowledging the primacy and imperative of proficient school business leadership. International research chronicling the subsequent rapid professionalisation of school business leaders demonstrates pervasive policy moves that have re-focused school business priorities. Drawing on research conducted in Australia, USA, UK, Canada and New Zealand this article describes recent widespread changes before discussing issues and trends portending future professional adaptation for school business leaders whose work lies at the cross hairs of macro pressures and micro necessities.

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Eco-Innovation, Sustainability and Business Model Innovation by Open Innovation Dynamics

Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity ◽

10.3390/joitmc7020149 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 149

Author(s):

Magdalena Pichlak ◽

Adam R. Szromek

Keyword(s):

Open Innovation ◽

Business Models ◽

Business Leaders ◽

Innovation Activity ◽

Computer Assisted ◽

Supply Chain Collaboration ◽

Sustainable Business ◽

Innovation Activities ◽

Innovation Dynamics ◽

New Business

The paper aims to analyze the environmental aspects of innovation activity undertaken by companies and, in particular, to assess sustainable business leaders’ propensity to generate eco-innovation. The research described in the paper was descriptive and, to some extent, diagnostic. It was based on a non-random sample and was conducted—using the Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI) method—in 2019 among 54 of the most eco-innovative Polish companies. The results of the research indicate that they are more likely to generate radical rather than incremental changes. Moreover, the most eco-innovative companies are those developing technologies for biodiversity protection. The results further indicate that companies with more than 50 employees have a higher propensity to develop incremental and radical eco-innovation than smaller firms with relatively fewer resources. Finally, this study shows that adopting an open innovation strategy strengthens the propensity to generate eco-innovation, especially radical ones. Moreover, developing such changes is dominated by the adoption of strategic and operational forward supply chain collaboration, involving the absorption of knowledge and information streaming directly from the market. The results can provide a frame for developing new business models incorporating collaboration in eco-innovation activities, especially in the situation of a post-pandemic recovery of the economy.

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