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Hello OMT members,
I would like to draw your attention to my newly published book, Corporate Culture and Environmental Practice, published by Edward Elgar.
Please stop by the Edward Elgar booths (#110 &112) at AOM to view copies; significant discounts (up to 50%) are offered for orders placed at the conference.
Corporate Culture and Environmental Practice: Making Change at a High-Tech Manufacturer
by Jennifer Howard-Grenville
Jennifer Howard-Grenville has put together a timely and sparkling narrative of environmental activity within a highly successful, well managed and technically sophisticated organization. Corporate Culture and Environmental Practice is rich in ethnographic detail and wonderfully telling of the struggles structurally marginalized environmental specialists take part in when trying to balance immediate cost, schedule and production targets with long-term social and environmental risks. A blend of Mary Douglas, Karl Weick and Charles Perrow, this is a must read for students of organizations as well as the rest of us who worry about the fate of the planet.
John Van Maanen, Erwin Schell Professor or Organization Studies, MIT
Jennifer Howard-Grenville has hit the nail on the head – technology is not the cause of our environmental problems; culture is. In Corporate Culture and Environmental Practice, she deftly shows us that the norms and practices that guide the way we think about our relationship with the natural environment are the critical point at which to understand the development of the technologies that facilitate that interface. Written from first hand experiences, this book is a thoughtful and revealing glimpse into the culture of a company that only an accomplished organizational scholar can provide.
Andrew J. Hoffman, Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan
This innovative book explores from an insider's perspective a company's environmental decisions and actions. Based on close observation at a major semiconductor manufacturer, Jennifer Howard-Grenville details how the company's culture – revealed through its internal practices, decisions, and norms – guided action on environmental issues. While demonstrating gaps between the mainstream work of the company and the demands placed by environmental considerations, the author's analysis demonstrates how differences were negotiated over time, offering important insights into the processes of change that can advance environmental issues within a company. Her unique viewpoint offers an important addition to current research, which often explains companies' environmental actions solely as responses to external pressures.
Best regards,
Jennifer Howard-Grenville
Assistant Professor of Management
Lundquist College of Business
University of Oregon
541 346-3347