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Environmental Responsibility and Corporate Culture: The Prerequisites for Self-Regulation

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Abstract

One of the darker corners of the black box [1] of present-day firms’ technological progress and rationality (concealed rather than limited) regards the possible co-evolution of the natural environment and of the firm itself. Not much light has been shed on this topic by the more widespread debate based on the so-called environmental historiography, which has too often lingered on regretting or cursing would-be options or, alternatively, has too often been involved in the formulation of complaints whose cause is noble, but whose results however are often fruitless.

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Notes

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    The more useful critiques, in this context, are to be found in [2].

  2. 2.

    I am grateful for the courtesy of Simone Neri Serneri, who pointed out this [5] and other German works, together with his contribution, and I wish to thank him. Also refer to S. Neri Serneri, Storia, ambiente e società industriale. Rassegna di studi tedeschi in “Società e storia”, n. 50, October–December 1990, pp. 891–940.

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    Refer for this, the fundamental collection of essays in [6].

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    With regard to this concept and a proposed research, please refer to [9].

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    For an annotated bibliography, please refer to the contribution mentioned in [9].

  6. 6.

    It could be interesting to study the ecologic semantics of the common meaning as a metaphor of the sublimations of a characteriologically blocked libido.

  7. 7.

    These concepts started to form in [32], but they are expressed in greater detail, from another point of view, in G. Sapelli, L’impresa e la democrazia, separatezza e funzione, “Quaderni della Fondazione Adriano Olivetti”, Rome, 1993.

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Sapelli, G. (2013). Environmental Responsibility and Corporate Culture: The Prerequisites for Self-Regulation. In: Morality and Corporate Governance: Firm Integrity and Spheres of Justice. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2784-8_4

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