Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Business and climate change governance : South Africa in comparative perspective / edited by Tanja A. Börzel and Ralph Hamann
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Series Governance and limited statehood
Governance and limited statehood series.
Contents 1. Business Contributions to Climate Change Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood: Introduction; Ralph Hamann and Tanja A. Ḇrzel -- 2. Corporate Response to Climate Change in Areas of Limited Statehood: An Outline of the Organisational Configurations in Kenya and South Africa; Farai Kapfudzaruwa -- 3. Climate Change Policies in the Car Industry: Asset Specificity as a Driver of Internal Innovation; Christian R. Thauer -- 4. Renewable Energy Incentives Across Varying levels of Statehood; John Fay -- 5. Voluntary Collective Commitment: the Case of Business and Energy Efficiency in South Africa; Christopher Kaan and Stine Klapper -- 6. Business Contributions to Climate Change Adaptation ₆ From Coping to Transformation? Insights from South Africa and Germany; Nicole Kranz -- 7. Adaptation to Climate Change: An Investigation into Woolworths' Water Management Measures; Nadine Methner -- 8. Insurance, Climate-risk and the Barriers to Change; Tom Herbstein, Jan Froestad, Deon Nel and Clifford Shearing -- 9. Of Culture and Religion: Insurance Regulation and the Informal Economy in a South African City; Moliehi Shale -- 10. Business and Climate Change Governance: Conclusions; Tanja Ḇrzel, Ralph Hamann and Nicole Kranz
Summary Under which conditions do companies engage in the provision of collective goods and services if the state lacks the capacity to do so? To what extent do multinational firms engage in a 'race to the top' fostering rather than undermining regulation? The empirical analyses in the individual chapters look at business responses to some of South Africa's most pertinent governance challenges, HIV/AIDS and environmental pollution. The contributors look at firms in four industry sectors: the automotive industry, the mining industry, the food and beverage industry and the textile industry. These four sectors comprise a significant number of foreign as well as local companies, with or without brand name, which cater to different market segments within South Africa, differ in size and are exposed to varying pressure from NGOs and foreign competitors
"Why do business organisations contribute to climate change governance in areas of limited statehood? In many countries, governments are too weak and often also not willing to set and enforce climate change regulations. While companies have the capacities to fill the resulting governance gap, conventional wisdom expects them to take advantage by relocating their production sites in order to escape strict national regulation. Studies on South Africa, Kenya and Germany demonstrate that business contributions to the mitigation and adaptation to climate change vary significantly between countries, sectors and firms. In order to explain these variations, the contributors bring together two important literatures that rarely speak to each other - governance and business management - arguing that the threat of public regulation has an important role in motivating business efforts"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Business enterprises -- Environmental aspects -- South Africa
Industrial policy -- South Africa
Environmental responsibility -- Government policy -- South Africa
Climatic changes -- Government policy -- South Africa
Environmental responsibility -- Economic aspects -- South Africa
Social responsibility of business -- South Africa
Climate change -- Republic of South Africa.
Regional government policies -- Republic of South Africa.
Business ethics & social responsibility -- Republic of South Africa.
Social impact of environmental issues -- Republic of South Africa.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Environment and Ecology.
Business enterprises -- Environmental aspects
Climatic changes -- Government policy
Industrial policy
Social responsibility of business
Climate change -- Republic of South Africa.
Regional -- local -- state government policies -- Republic of South Africa.
Business ethics & social responsibility -- Republic of South Africa.
Social impact of environmental issues -- Republic of South Africa.
Environment and Ecology.
SUBJECT South Africa -- Commerical policy
Subject South Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Börzel, Tanja A., 1970- author, editor.
Hamann, Ralph, editor
ISBN 9781137302748
1137302747
9781137302731
1137302739