• DocumentCode
    2196285
  • Title

    Ethical responses of large organizations to the challenge of substainable development

  • Author

    Herkert, Joseph

  • Author_Institution
    North Carolina State Univ.
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    8-11 May 2006
  • Firstpage
    53
  • Lastpage
    54
  • Abstract
    Professional engineering societies and corporations respond in a variety of ways to the challenges of sustainable development. This paper dissects several prominent organizations and the ethical aspects of their responses, which range from ignoring sustainability concerns, to green washing, to measurement of triple bottom line performance, to altering the strategic objectives of the organization
  • Keywords
    ethical aspects; organisational aspects; sustainable development; ethical aspects; professional engineering; sustainable development; Biological materials; Councils; Environmental economics; Ethical aspects; Ethics; Knowledge engineering; Maintenance engineering; Power engineering and energy; Power generation economics; Sustainable development;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electronics and the Environment, 2006. Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Scottsdale, AZ
  • ISSN
    1095-2020
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0351-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISEE.2006.1650032
  • Filename
    1650032