Managing Change Toward Environmental Sustainability: A Conceptual Model in Small and Medium Enterprises

Wiesner, Retha; Chadee, Doren; Best, Peter

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“…Policy makers need to expand their efforts to make appropriate regulations to drive the implementation of more sustainable solutions. In addition, governments should expand on supporting SMEs in their journey to adopt sustainability by providing more tax incentives and low-cost loans as SMEs have limited resources and are more financially vulnerable(Tyler et al, 2018;Wiesner, Chadee, & Best, 2018).When comparing the top drivers and barriers, their patterns have not changed much in the last few years, and we would have to agree withParker et al (2009) that they have some issues for both researchers and practitioner SMEs. For SMEs, general analysis of drivers and barriers do not help them to decide what exact tools are needed to become environmentally sustainable because those analyses are not specific and do not distinguish between the different types of SMEs.…”

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An analysis of environmental sustainability in small & medium‐sized enterprises: Patterns and trends

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One of the greatest challenges facing the world today is climate change. The need to consistently advance with environmentally sustainable practices in today's businesses is crucial, and businesses are demanded to be more environmentally sustainable every day. This study conducts an analysis of the literature on small and medium‐sized enterprises' (SMEs) environmental sustainability by carefully examining 122 studies from 58 journals published from 2013 to 2019. We investigate the trends in drivers and barriers of sustainability adoption to inform both SMEs managers and policymakers. Our results also classify the reviewed studies on the basis of their methodologies and show the distribution of studies across industry sectors and locations in order to set directions for future research on sustainability practices of SMEs.

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“…Nowadays, businesses are facing a number of challenges due to the dynamic environment [11][12][13][14]. Successful implementation of sustainable practices through entrepreneurial activities is crucial to a more sustainable economy [15].…”

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Strategic Instrument for Sustainability of Human Resource Management in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Using Management Data

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Quality human resources are an integral part of corporate strategy. Human capital development is an essential step towards the success of the business on the market. This paper fills the hole by providing the information about the ways how to motivate employees in terms of occupational classification and the age. The aim of the research was to determine whether there are statistically significant differences in the level of importance of employee motivation in terms of occupational classification and the age of respondents and the studied areas of motivation. A total of 3720 employees in small and medium-sized enterprises were analysed all over Slovakia using the method of simple random sampling. Descriptive statistics were used to describe sampling units. The differences in the values of the importance of motivation factors of individual groups were tested using the method of Tukey’s HSD at the level of significance α = 5%. Following the results, the fact that there are significant differences in terms of occupational classification and the age in the analysed areas of motivation can be stated. Therefore, the managers have to motivate employees in different ways that result in the more complicated management of human resources associated with meeting enterprise goals. Thus, the issue of individual motivation programmes created for individual employees tailored to employees’ needs must be discussed.

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“…In addition Longo et al (2005) also analyzed the characteristics of CSR by SMEs and identify CSR activities undertaken to support the creation of social value of the SMEs business. Wiesner et al (2017) develop a model for managing change toward environmental sustainability within SMEs by investigating the main environmental sustainability change and the findings provide and empirically environmental sustainability model. Caputo et al (2017) develop of a new conceptual model to highlight the factors driving SMEs towards effective introduction of sustainability management tools and introducing a sustainable report.…”

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An Implementation of Sustainability Reporting Model in Village-Owned Enterprise and Small and Medium Enterprise: Case Study in Bali, Indonesia

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2018

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Sustainability reporting becomes a new paradigm in corporate reporting. This article discusses the implementation of sustainability reporting model on village-owned enterprise (VOE) and small and medium enterprises (SMEs), especially in Indonesia. This research design is a qualitative descriptive study and literature research. This research was conducted at the village-owned enterprise and some small and medium enterprise in Tajun village, Buleleng, Bali. The process of this research divided into initial research, data collection, create the sustainability reporting model, and the implementation of the sustainability reporting model. The methods of collected data are semi-structured interview, observation, and document analysis. Sustainability reporting model in village-owned enterprise and small and medium enterprises based on GRI G4 standard. There are five stages on sustainability reporting model for VOE and SMEs. The five stages are prepare stage, connect stage, define stage, monitoring stage, and reporting stage. Sustainability reporting on VOE and SMEs increases transparency towards stakeholders and improves the optimization of business process. This result indicated that VOE and SMEs can more contribute than other related business in sustainability context.

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Managing Change Toward Environmental Sustainability: A Conceptual Model in Small and Medium Enterprises

Cited by 60 publications

References 79 publications

An analysis of environmental sustainability in small & medium‐sized enterprises: Patterns and trends

An analysis of environmental sustainability in small & medium‐sized enterprises: Patterns and trends

Strategic Instrument for Sustainability of Human Resource Management in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Using Management Data

An Implementation of Sustainability Reporting Model in Village-Owned Enterprise and Small and Medium Enterprise: Case Study in Bali, Indonesia

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