Corporate biodiversity management and organisational change mechanisms: The case of a tea producer in Sri Lanka

Abstract

Corporate biodiversity management (CBDM) is a primary environmental concern in the food and beverage industry, especially the tea sector. However, the way teaproducing companies pursue sustainable biodiversity management practices, and how these practices lead to organisational change at the lower tiers of the food supply chain remain under-researched. Using alternative models of organisational change and data from interviews, field visits, and documents, this study analyses the practices adopted by a tea producer in a highly environmentally sensitive area in Sri Lanka, and how these practices have led to organisational change. The findings show that environmental disturbances in the tea industry's value chain primarily influence the organisation's design archetypes, in turn leading to CBDM through organisational subsystems and interpretive schemes. The study shows that adopting CBDM practices gradually and consistently leads to sustainable outcomes over time.

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“…For example, our study mainly offers a broad investigation of ESG performance. Some of most specific ESG‐related variables, such as how sustainablility trends (i.e., air pollution (Jiménez‐Parra et al, 2018; Tan et al, 2021), biodiversity risks (Atupola et al, 2023; Roberts et al, 2022), and carbon risks (Doda et al, 2016; Wei et al, 2023)) that affect bid price or target shareholder benefits should be developed in the future studies. In addition, our study mainly investigated in the Chinese market, and given that the different institutional backgrounds of each emerging market have a markedly different effect on corporate investment behavior, other emerging markets should be investigated in the future research.…”