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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on May 25, 2007
Enterprise and Society 2007 8(2):221-226; doi:10.1093/es/khm028
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference.

Doing Business History in the Age of Global Climate Change

Christine Meisner Rosen

Associate Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720–1900, USA

crosen@haas.berkeley.edu

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When Editor Ken Lipartito invited me to write an introduction to this special issue of Enterprise & Society on "Business and Nature," he suggested that I view it as an opportunity to discuss the status of the still emergent focus within business history on the connections between business and the natural environment. I'll start by drawing an upbeat analogy between the articles in this special issue and the recent upsurge in news about firms taking leadership roles in the movement to reduce the emission of greenhouses gases to decrease the threat of climate change. Several major United States corporations, including some big industrial polluters normally associated with anti-environmental policies, have joined forces with prominent environmental organizations to lobby in Washington D.C. for mandatory, economy-wide, market-based regulations of greenhouse gas emissions. Coupled with reports about the growing interest of Wall Street firms, investor coalitions, and venture capitalists in finding solutions to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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