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Article: Environmental groups and business organizations: conflict or cooperation?
- Article from:
- SAM Advanced Management Journal
- Article date:
- March 22, 1994
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Environmental issues are considered one of the most important challenges facing business in the 1990s (Kirkpatrick, 1990). In recent years, many corporations have made substantial progress in developing more ecologically sensitive products and operations, though much change and need for improvement remains (Stead & Stead, 1992). Environmental groups are dedicated to ecological protection and thus are key representatives of the natural environment. These groups have wielded significant influence on environmental legislation and have frequently clashed with corporations in the media, through public protests, and by filing citizen lawsuits for violations of environmental ...