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- Title
Royal Dutch Shell: Company Strategies for Dealing with Environmental Issues.
- Authors
Sluyterman, Keetie
- Abstract
The intricate interplay among environmental pressure groups, oil companies, and governments is revealed from the perspective of the Anglo-Dutch company Royal Dutch Shell. An examination of three environmental issues demonstrates the company's awareness of such problems and describes its efforts to contain potential damage to the degree permitted by existing technological and economic constraints. The industry view is that government measures should create a level playing field and should be effective and economically feasible. While pressure groups are skilled at calling attention to environmental problems, industry highlights the tradeoffs between different societal aims that are entailed in tackling these problems. Governments are left to find the best ways to weigh conflicting interests.
- Subjects
ROYAL Dutch Shell PLC; INDUSTRIAL pollution; PETROLEUM industry; GOVERNMENT policy; GASOLINE &; the environment; BRENT Spar (Oil storage tank); GREENPEACE International; GLOBAL warming; PRESSURE groups
- Publication
Business History Review, 2010, Vol 84, Issue 2, p203
- ISSN
0007-6805
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0007680500002580