1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911107953003321

Autore

Zovanyi Gabor <1943->

Titolo

The no-growth imperative : creating sustainable communities under ecological limits to growth / / Gabor Zovanyi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Earthscan from Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-18888-6

0-203-08401-2

1-283-87154-8

1-136-18889-4

9780203084014

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

338.973/07

Soggetti

Sustainable development - United States

Economic development - Environmental aspects - United States

Communities - United States

Land use - United States - Planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Requiem for the growth imperative -- The American community as a growth machine -- Rationales and strategies for stopping growth in America's communities -- The no-growth path to sustainability -- Envisioning no-growth communities -- Epilogue: ten difficult personal actions needed to save the world -- Notes -- Selected bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

More than two decades of mounting evidence confirms that the existing scale of the human enterprise has surpassed global ecological limits to growth. Based on such limits, The No-Growth Imperative discounts current efforts to maintain growth through eco-efficiency initiatives and smart-growth programs, and argues that growth is inherently unsustainable and that the true nature of the challenge confronting us now is one of replacing the current growth imperative with a no-growth imperative. Gabor Zovanyi asserts that anything less than stopping growth would merely slow today's



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911138939703321

Autore

Eldring Jan

Titolo

Porter's (1980) generic strategies, performance and risk : an empirical investigation with German data / / Jan Eldring

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hamburg, : Diplomica Verlag, 2009

ISBN

9783836624268

3836624265

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (78 p.)

Disciplina

658.8/04

658.804

Soggetti

Business planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Porter ́s (1980) Generic Strategies, Performance and Risk; TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF FIGURES; 1. Introduction; 2. Theory and Hypotheses; 3. Data and Method; 4. Analysis and Results; 5. Discussion, Implications and Limitations; 6. Conclusion; 7. References; MIP; Curriculum Vitae

Sommario/riassunto

Porter's (1980) book Competitive Strategy has received a great deal of attention in the strategic management literature. Here Porter claims that competitive strategy is the search for a favorable competitive position in the industry, which can erode or improve, depending on a firm's choice of strategy. He derived a conceptual typology of three generic strategies that has already become a classic among scholars. They are cost leadership, differentiation and focus strategies. Just recently Michael Raynor (2007) challenged Porter's widely accepted typology, by including another dimension in the d