The Action Logics of Environmental Leadership: A Developmental Perspective

Abstract

environmental leadership, consciousness development, corporate greening, social and environmental responsibilities, post-conventional stages,

Modelling the impact of ISO 14001 on environmental performance: A comparative approach

“…It would be interesting to evaluate the extent to which ISO 14001 certification contributes to such mobilization and examine if the efficiency or inefficiency of the standard does not depend on real employee support of this management system. Likewise, the managers' core values and resources for implementing ISO 14001 can have a significant impact on environmental performance (Boiral et al, 2009;Brust and Liston-Heyes, 2010;Rodríguez et al, 2011). The extent to which ISO 14001 certification reinforces managers' values and support for environmental issue could be an interesting avenue for future research.…”

Environmental Leadership and Consciousness Development: A Case Study Among Canadian SMEs

“…Although environmental leadership is generally considered as a prerequisite to corporate greening (Egri and Herman 2000;Flannery and May 1994;Boiral et al 2009), few empirical studies have focused on the way managers' meaning systems and abilities can influence sustainability commitments, notably in the case of SMEs.…”

“…Within the literature, the analysis of these practices tends to project a rather simplistic monolithic view of environmental leaders who instrumentally endorse a green vision of various managerial initiatives. Nevertheless, such an environmental commitment cannot be dissociated from the underlying worldviews, abilities and psychological predispositions of managers (Brown 2011;Boiral et al 2009). These fundamental psychological aspects are related to the consciousness development of individuals, that is to say the meaning-system that determines the personal worldviews, deep motivations and abilities to take complexity into account (Harung et al 2009;Cook-Greuter 2000, 2004Pfaffenberger et al 2011;Bartunek et al 1983).…”

“Daring to Care”: Challenging Corporate Environmentalism

“…There is a reliance on finding technical solutions to environmental challenges (e.g. Boiral et al 2009;Harris and Crane 2002) and on the generation of economic benefits such as higher productivity or reduced costs (e.g. Christmann 2000).…”

“…CE is therefore an exercise in impression management (Fineman 2001;Harris and Crane 2002) as ''greening'' has become a hygiene issue that responsible management must be seen to espouse. Accompanied by a burgeoning panoply of award schemes, consultancies and glossy policy statements, greening attempts to provide largely symbolic reassurance that action is being taken (Greer and Bruno 1996;Milne et al 2006) to legitimize corporate activities to stakeholders, including the wider public, that are increasingly disenchanted with corporate social and environmental performance (Boiral et al 2009). Corporate literature and marketing draw on a rhetoric of greening allied to care while continuing business much as usual.…”