Study On Corporate Environmental Responsibility And Corporate Sustainable Development

Essentially, environmental problem is the product of the contradiction arisen from the interaction between the environmental system and the human economic system. Environmental problem, it can be said that, is mainly caused by the enterprises' operation and management behavior and the consumption of the product and services supplied by the enterprises. Enterprise is the most fundamental and significant organization form playing a decisive role which holding lots of social resources and fortunes in the economic system. For the treatment of the environmental problem, enterprises should undertake more and more responsibility, because that is both the claim of the whole society and the impact of the movement of Corporate Social Responsibility which is compulsory for enterprises development. And an enterprise will become more competitively because in this process its public image will be improved in the public and gets other returns such as cost reduced, efficiency improved.The challenges to the contemporary enterprises' survival and development imposed by environmental problem have and would definitely appear with various ways and forms: the government will strengthen regulations on the corporate environmental impact, drawing up more rigid pollution discharge standards and the bills with related to environmental responsibility; the trend claiming for the greener product is coming, some consumers have been beginning pay attention to the information on the environmental impact of the product and services, they are even willing to spend more for the more greener product and services, such as buying a hybrid automobile; the suppliers are being limited by more standards and requirements concerning environmental protection, just like asking the supplier produce the raw materials with the sustainable development style; the community will ask the enterprises to do more for the community especially for keeping the environmental quality of the community instead of just those of charities; what is more, all kinds of NGOs and Media, especially ENGOs will become more powerful and legitimacy.So the main opinion of the dissertation is mentioned and articulated: with Corporate Environmental Responsibility as a kind of requirement, passion, tool or motive, enterprises, combined with the government and society and all kinds of corporate stakeholders work together to incorporate the responsibility of environmental protection into the process of the enterprises' operation and management process. Enterprises should improve their productivity; reduce the use of raw materials, pollution discharge and concerning environmental risks; innovate the product technology and supply the Resource-Saving and Environmental-Friendly product and services, to promote enterprises develop innovatively and put sustainable development into practice for performing the environmental responsibility successfully, so the sustainable development of the human economic, society and environment will be realized.Integrating the Corporate Environmental Responsibility, Stakeholder Theory and the theory of Corporate Sustainable Development is the innovation of this dissertation, with the aim to create a new thinking style for the practice of the sustainable development.