The Role of the Environmental Manager in Advancing Environmental Sustainability and Social Responsibility in the Organization

Greenwood, Lisa; Rosenbeck, Joseph M.; Scott, Jason Adam

doi:10.14448/jes.02.0005

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“…There is rich literature associating environmental leadership with various organizational environmental benefits. The survey of Greenwood et al (2012) showed that environmental managers play a key role in promoting sustainable development of organizations. Dubey et al (2015) found that environmental leadership positively influences organizations' overall quality management and supplier relationship management, thereby improving the organization's environmental performance.…”

Section: Environmental Leadership and Firm Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Leadership, Green Innovation Practices, Environmental Knowledge Learning, and Firm Performance

Lin

et al. 2020

Sage Open

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Environmental leadership has received continuous attention from the business sector in recent years, yet few studies have examined the internal mechanisms and contingent conditions that link environmental leadership to firm performance. The aim of this article is to advance research by investigating the relationship between environmental leadership and firm performance by considering the mediating role of green innovation practices and the moderating role of environmental knowledge learning. A questionnaire survey is used to collect data from 353 agricultural products corporations in China. Empirical results show that environmental leadership has a positive relationship with the two dimensions of firm performance, namely, environmental performance and financial performance. Results also indicate that green innovation practices (including green innovation strategy and actions) play a mediating role between environmental leadership and firm performance. Meanwhile, it is also found that environmental knowledge learning positively moderates the effect of environmental leadership on green innovation practices. This study adds value to the environmental management literature by introducing leadership style as an antecedent variable to examine the impact of environmental leadership on firm performance in China. And the study also highlights the important moderating effect of environmental knowledge learning on the relationship between environmental leadership and green innovation practices. The findings of this article could be important in terms of both management and policy implications.

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Section: Environmental Leadership and Firm Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Leadership, Green Innovation Practices, Environmental Knowledge Learning, and Firm Performance

Lin

et al. 2020

Sage Open

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“…Within organisations, the sustainability officer and manager is involved in the “midwifery” of distributing sustainability knowledge (Yusuf 2008, p. 1170). However, despite their role and expertise, they are not often consulted in research and might be under-recognised in general (Greenwood et al , 2012). As such, we view sustainability officers and managers as a potentially rich source of information and knowledge on how HEIs develop and characterise campus sustainability.…”

Section: Sustainability Officers and Managers As Organisational Intermediariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Campus sustainability in the Australian higher education sector: divergence and convergence in planning, reporting and tactics

Melles

Lodewyckx

Hariharan

2021

IJSHE

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Purpose This study provides a country-specific and sector-wide study of campus sustainability. Campus sustainability is a key consideration for the higher education (HEI) sector, and campus sustainability officers and managers manage its reporting and planning. Global and country-specific studies to date have focussed on individual organisation narratives, interviews with faculty and management and content analysis of reports and plans. Findings show wide divergence on scope and scale of formalised planning and reporting, few references to sustainability officers and managers’ perspectives and limited reference to organisational theory to explain tactics and strategies adopted. As a result, there are a few country-specific and sector-wide studies. The purpose of this paper is to address the scarcity of country-specific and sector-wide studies into campus sustainability practices in HEI by combining qualitative and quantitative analysis. Design/methodology/approach The authors provide the first sector-wide overview of formal campus sustainability commitments for the Australian public sector HEI (n = 41) in terms of several key indicators – plans, reports and other indicators. Second, the authors use reflexive thematic analysis of interviews (n = 21) with current and former sustainability officers and managers to examine sector organisational reasons for such variation. Third, the authors analyse HEI sector isomorphism and divergence on planning and reporting of campus sustainability from the perspective of institutional theory of organisations. Findings This study finds some convergence on the need for plans, reporting and other engagement elements, albeit without any sector-wide standards being followed. The authors observe a trend towards carbon-neutral (CN) declarations before 2030 although with nuances on emissions scope and increasing inclusion of renewable energy. Interviews identify a range of strategies and tactics adopted for campus sustainability relative to internal and external organisational pressures. Overall, the sector still exhibits weak institutionalisation of sustainability. Research limitations/implications This study interviews a specific and limited cohort (n = 21) and presents an overview of sector reporting, planning and target setting although not a detailed content analysis. Other interview cohorts may have different views on the strategic and tactical purposes of reporting practices, and more in-depth analysis of formal plans and reports should be conducted in the future. Practical implications This study concludes that the Australian HEI sector should consider greater public transparency of its data and reporting actions. Common standards and a benchmarking platform for the sector would improve overall engagement with all internal and external stakeholders. At present, the HEI sector’s message to its key internal and external stakeholders is mixed and needs to change towards a more in-depth institutionalisation of sustainability on campus. Originality/value Particular insights are the value of organisational strategies and tactics as an interpretive framework for HEI campus sustainability and how interviewees attribute sector competitors and self-different motives and tactics. Albeit limited, this is the first mapping of sector approaches to sustainability reporting and planning.

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“…Environment, economic, and social well-being are three traditional pillars of sustainability required to gain sustainable development. There must be an equilibrium to achieve sustainability [4,6].…”

Section: Sustainability and Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

i-Sustainability Plus Theory as an Innovative Path towards Sustainable World Founded on Blue-Green Ubiquitous Cities (Case Studies: Denmark and South Korea)

Mohammadian

Rezaie

2020

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Nowadays, the new concept of urban living is required as a path to struggle with urbanization challenges in order to maintain the world and make cities better settings for living through creating high quality of life and liveability. To achieve such areas, developing sustainability, urban planning based on Information Technology, Information Communication Technology infrastructure, and innovative management play important roles. So, authors try to find out new concepts of urban life concerned with these indicators through sustainability, innovation, ubiquitous, and smartness to create a sustainable and modern world through smart cities. Based on authors’ researches, Blue-Green infrastructure based on environmentally friendly, green strategies, sustainable water management, and ubiquitous services focusing on digitalization and high technologies are required to make a modern world. Fundamentally, innovation management in technology, business and marketing has important roles in designing such areas by keeping up with growing demands and low resources of energies. In this research, i-Sustainability Plus is introduced as a theory to create Blue-Green Ubiquitous cities as modern sustainable and liveable urban areas. Such areas could make the world a better place for living through sustainable development and improving quality of human life.

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The Role of the Environmental Manager in Advancing Environmental Sustainability and Social Responsibility in the Organization

Cited by 16 publications

References 9 publications

Environmental Leadership, Green Innovation Practices, Environmental Knowledge Learning, and Firm Performance

Environmental Leadership, Green Innovation Practices, Environmental Knowledge Learning, and Firm Performance

Campus sustainability in the Australian higher education sector: divergence and convergence in planning, reporting and tactics

i-Sustainability Plus Theory as an Innovative Path towards Sustainable World Founded on Blue-Green Ubiquitous Cities (Case Studies: Denmark and South Korea)

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