Small Firms and Environmental Management

Schaper, Michael

doi:10.1177/0266242602203001

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“…Hillary (2004) 8 EU countries SME 1-249 survey (unclear, approx. 120 SMEs) Peters & Turner (2004) UK no clear SME definition interview (62 SMEs) Pimenova & van der Vorst (2004) UK micro 1-9, SME 10-249 survey (13 micro, 9 SMEs) Rothenberg & Becker (2004) USA small <= 20, medium > 20 survey (54 small, 74 medium) interview (7 SMEs, 9 advisers) Simpson et al (2004), Taylor et al (2003) UK SME < 250 survey (63 SMEs) interview, site visit (15 SMEs) Ammenberg & Hjelm (2003) Sweden SME 0-249 interviews (25 SMEs) Kannan & Boie (2003) Germany SME < 500 case study (1 SME) Lefebvre et al (2003) Canada SME < 500 survey (368 SMEs) Naffziger et al (2003) USA SME <= 500 survey (100 SMEs) Revell (2003) Japan small < 50 interview (20 small) Vernon et al (2003) UK micro < 10 focus group (25 micro, 34 staff) Friedman & Miles (2002) UK SME < 250 interview (61 SMEs, 21 stakeholders) Gunningham & Sinclair (2002) Australia small < 50 interview (13 small, 8 stakeholders) Hansen et al (2002) 5 EU countries SMEs <= 250 interview (20 SMEs) Schaper (2002) Australia small < 20 survey (154 small) Rutherfoord et al (2000) UK, Netherlands small < 50 interview (40 small) Tilley (2000), Tilley (1999) UK small < 50 interview (60 small) Non-empirical journal articles Clement & Hansen (2003) Content analysis of documents on Nordic SME environmental funding schemes Hoevenagel & Wolters (2000) Secondary data on Dutch SME (< 100 staff) use of environmental intermediaries Shearlock et al (2000) Studied a database of environmental service firms, but not SMEs using the services Walley & Taylor (2002) Literature review which identified and defined a typology of green entrepreneurs…”

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“…Such information can help SMEs to engage in environmental improvement and conduct cost-benefit analyses. There are two types of education explored in the literature: self-directed learning such as checklists, do-it-yourself (DIY) guides, fact sheets, case studies, newsletters and self-help toolkits (Condon, 2004;Friedman and Miles, 2002;Pimenova and van der Vorst, 2004;Schaper, 2002;Vernon et al, 2003;Walker et al, 2007); and facilitated education such as workshops, seminars and conferences (Condon, 2004;Pimenova and van der Vorst, 2004;Walker et al, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Review of Interventions to Encourage SMEs to Make Environmental Improvements

Parker

Redmond

Simpson

2009

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are an important part of the world economy but they are thought to be responsible for around 60% of all carbon dioxide emissions and 70% of all pollution. SMEs often have major problems with limited resources, limited knowledge, and limited technical capabilities to deal with their own negative environmental impact. SMEs exhibit widely differing characteristics and commitment where environmental issues are concerned. Yet under these conditions they are all expected to engage in environmental improvement. Interventions that encourage environmental improvement are often polarised between regulation and legislation at one extreme and voluntary environmental agreement at the other. It is clear that a holistic mixture of interventions is necessary to achieve maximum engagement and environmental improvement by all SMEs. In this paper we categorise the different levels of environmental commitment observed in SMEs and develop a selection or ‘toolkit’ of intervention strategies that might be deployed within each category of SME.

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A Review of Interventions to Encourage SMEs to Make Environmental Improvements

Parker

Redmond

Simpson

2009

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

226

208

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“…Battisti and Perry, 2011;Hamann et al, 2017;Hammann et al, 2009;Hsu and Cheng, 2012;Testa et al, 2016;Williams and Schaefer, 2013). However, though in a minority, some studies still suggest that the environmental attitudes of owners might not serve as an effective predictor of the environmental behaviour in smaller firms (Schaper, 2002).…”

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Understanding the drivers of sustainable entrepreneurial practices in Pakistan’s leather industry

Wahga

Blundel

Schaefer

2017

IJEBR

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation.*Related content and download information correct at time of download. Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to analyse the drivers of sustainable entrepreneurial practices in SMEs operating in a developing economy. The secondary objectives are to explore the relationship between these drivers and to draw out the implications for policy and practice. Design/methodology/approach -The paper is informed by the literature on sustainable entrepreneurship, and on the drivers of pro-environmental practices in SMEs. It reports on the results of an intensive multi-level empirical study, which investigates the environmental practices of SMEs in Pakistan's leatherworking industry using a multiple case study design and grounded analysis, which draws on relevant institutional theory. Findings -The study identifies that coercive, normative and mimetic isomorphic pressures simultaneously drive sustainable entrepreneurial activity in the majority of sample SMEs. These pressures are exerted by specific micro-, meso-and macro-level factors, ranging from international customers' requirements to individual-level values of owners and managers. It also reveals the catalytic effect of the educational and awareness-raising activities of intermediary organisations, in tandem with the attraction of competitiveness gains, (international) environmental regulations, industrial dynamism and reputational factors. Practical implications -The evidence suggests that, in countries where formal institutional mechanisms have less of an impact, intermediary organisations can perform a proto-institutional role that helps to overcome pre-existing barriers to environmental improvement by sparking sustainable entrepreneurial activity in SME populations. Originality/value -The findings imply that the drivers of sustainable entrepreneurial activity do not operate in a "piecemeal" fashion, but that particular factors mediate the emergence and development of other sustainability drivers. This paper provides new insights into sustainable entrepreneurship and motivations for environmental practices in an under-researched developing economy context.

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“…Herein lies a professional challenge, particularly when provision of professional advice occurs in a retail setting [13,40], potentially creating tension between professional and commercial goals [7,16]. The community pharmacist professional judgement debate is further complicated by the fact that from the pharmacist's perspective, personal values are a dimension that should be considered in context [9,17,38], particularly as the service provider is inseparable from the service.…”

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Giving “Best Advice”: Proposing a Framework of Community Pharmacist Professional Judgement Formation

Roche

Kelliher

2014

Pharmacy

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Community pharmacy is often portrayed as a marriage of professional and business roles in a commercial domain, thereby creating a need for, and value in, pursuing the development of professional competencies for use in the community pharmacy business. In context, professional judgement is the application of knowledge, skills and attitudes (competencies) which, when applied to situations where there is no one or obvious right or wrong way to proceed, gives a patient a better likelihood of a favourable outcome than if a lay-person had made the decision. The challenge for community pharmacists is that professional judgement formation is influenced by professional, commercial and personal criteria with inherent interconnected challenges. In community pharmacy practice in the Republic of Ireland (ROI), this challenge is compounded by the fact that advice is normally provided in an environment where the pharmacist provides professional advice "for free" and then may offer to sell the patient a product or service based on that advice, an activity which amounts to a commercial transaction. While there is currently no evidence to confirm whether or not these professional judgement influences are resolved successfully, their very existence poses a risk that their resolution "in the wrong way" could compromise patient outcomes or professional standing following the delivery of pharmacy services. It is therefore apparent that a community pharmacist requires skills in identifying and analysing professional/commercial/personal influences in order to appreciate the criteria which may affect both parties' (patient and pharmacist) decision making. By contemplating the interaction between the pharmacist's professional competencies and the individual influences OPEN ACCESSPharmacy 2014, 2 75 on that pharmacist, we can consider the enhancement of professional competencies that underpin the "best" advice being offered to the patient, regardless of whether that advice is offered in the course of dispensing prescriptions or delivering vaccination or other services, culminating in a framework of professional judgement formation.

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Small Firms and Environmental Management

Cited by 142 publications

References 29 publications

A Review of Interventions to Encourage SMEs to Make Environmental Improvements

A Review of Interventions to Encourage SMEs to Make Environmental Improvements

Understanding the drivers of sustainable entrepreneurial practices in Pakistan’s leather industry

Giving “Best Advice”: Proposing a Framework of Community Pharmacist Professional Judgement Formation

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