Introduction To The Special Issue On Management Strategy And The Environment

摘要

This special issue reflects the growing importance of the natural environment for practitioners and scholars of business management. A general solicitation of submissions was made, and all of the papers in this issue were part of the general journal submission process. In accordance with the journal's general policy, the final selection of the papers was made by the journal's editorial board based on the standard refereeing process, and I was asked to provide an introduction to this issue. Climate change, oil dependence, clean technology, and related challenges occupy increasing amounts of managerial time. They are also attracting growing scholarly interest, because their dynamic nature and their complexity raise questions that stretch the boundaries of research in economics and strategy. Rapidly evolving preferences, regulations, and technologies make myopic strategies extremely costly, and reward investments in flexibility.