Pro-ecological restructuring of companies: Case Studies

Abstract

Business-driven pro-environmental measures were the inspiration behind collating practical examples from both within and outside the EU into one book. Another impulse to conduct a case-study type analysis was research carried out within the 7th Framework Program of the EU on “Proecological restructuring for jobs”. Three countries participated in the research: Poland as the leader, Lithuania and Ukraine. It consisted of surveying the research target group – i.e. large companies that either already restructured themselves or were planning to do so. In the book, readers will find a three-way approach to restructuring processes. In the first part, the cases look at how political and legal factors are embedded in a company’s strategy and how they influence the company’s behaviour. The next part analyses direct companies’ activities on matching restructuring with ecology. The final part gives the approach to ecoinnovations in the companies.