Greening organizational behavior: An introduction to the special issue

Abstract

Each of the six articles in this Special Issue on "Greening Organizational Behavior" offers a perspective that provides unique insight and enriches our understanding of organizational greening. As a set, the articles span all levels of analysis, from a study of individual differences to an investigation of leadership dynamics to the analysis of firms and their institutional environments. Taken together, these articles illustrate the complex nature of organizational greening and highlight the need for research that adopts a systems perspective. The embedded and nested nature of organizational greening behavior requires additional research that investigates the interrelated influences of greening behavior by individual employees, work groups, and organizations. By recognizing and appreciating these multi-level dynamics, scholars of organizational behavior are poised to improve our understanding of effective organizational greening initiatives and thereby promote advancement toward environmental sustainability.

The Development of a Measurement Instrument for the Organizational Performance of Social Enterprises

“…Human performance refers to the relationship of the organization with its workforce [46]. Environmental performance focuses on the efforts organizations make to protect nature [47]. Community performance refers to how organizations deal with their Economic performance is related to the economic conditions supporting a strong financial position, important for the viability of organizations.…”

“…Human performance refers to the relationship of the organization with its workforce [46]. Environmental performance focuses on the efforts organizations make to protect nature [47]. Community performance refers to how organizations deal with their responsibilities in society [48], including the relationships with dominant stakeholders: beneficiaries of the social mission and customers, paying for the delivered products and services.…”

How Does Leader’s Support for Environment Promote Organizational Citizenship Behaviour for Environment? A Multi-Theory Perspective

“…In the business and management spheres, environmental sustainability is synonymous with corporate greening. Corporate greening is seen as one of the critical challenges faced by present-day organizations [2,3]. Organizations have traditionally inclined to depend more on physical structures, technology, systems and formal programmes in implementing greening.…”

Reputation, Game Theory and Entrepreneurial Sustainability

“…As a result, this manuscript provides an original multidisciplinary analysis of reputational management by relating well-known theoretical results from game theory to organizational realities, considering that an organization can adopt different identities when facing sustainability issues [25] and favoring the appearance of new approaches [26] as well as the reconsideration of the traditional ones [27]. This is done in order to rethink and advance the existing academic knowledge [28][29][30], taking into account that there is no need for theories of organizations to be exact or general in order to become helpful [31].…”