Brian Harvey
University of Manchester
9 Papers
107 Citations
Brian Harvey is an academic researcher from University of Manchester. The author has contributed to research in topics: Business ethics & Stakeholder. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 9 publications.
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Papers
Managing relationships with environmental stakeholders: A study of U.k. Water and electricity utilities
Brian Harvey,Anja Schaefer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report a study of the approach of six U.K. water and electricity companies towards managing the relationship with their "green" stakeholders, which is emerging as a promising framework for the analysis of corporate social performance.
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Stage models of corporate 'greening': a critical evaluation
Anja Schaefer,Brian Harvey +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical analysis is performed on four case studies of the greening efforts of companies in the UK water and electricity industries, and the authors conclude that environmental strategy and management in these companies fit poorly into the stage models of corporate greening.
Ethical banking: The case of the co-operative bank
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a significant current British case of the application of an ethical approach to banking practice, which relates to issues of stakeholder dialogue, corporate strategy, and marketing.
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"Graceful Merchants": A Contemporary View of Chinese Business Ethics
TL;DR: The authors report on a research project on "the status and understanding of business ethics in contemporary China". The project was funded by The British Council and conducted by means of visits to Chinese companies, Ministries and Universities in preparation for a seminar which was held in Beijing.
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Environmental knowledge and the adoption of ready-made environmental management solutions
Anja Schaefer,Brian Harvey +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study organizational learning with respect to environmental management or corporate greening in six UK water and electricity utilities, concentrating on information acquisition and dissemination, and find that companies make use of a variety of information acquisition strategies, including learning from experience, e.g. environmental incidents leading to prosecution; learning by observing other organizations (benchmarking); by importing environmental knowledge through outside experts and management systems and by building up an information searching and collecting system.