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AbstractThis paper explores how business sees its role as a provider of information to the public about products marketed with environmental claims. This revolves around issues of depersonalised advice to customers, education of the wider public and, most crucially, justification of company activities. The author demonstrates how people criticise this information because of the way that they perceive the motives of business to colour it, rather than because of the facts it conveys. People distrust aspects of business, especially its environmental information, for these reasons but the perceived expertise of business in comparison with the lack of expertise of the public means that they have little choice but to trust the more general system of information provision. The balance of trust to doubt is precarious and an overall loss of public trust has implications for the regulation of business because self‐regulation will no longer be seen as accountable and pressure may build for increasing government intervention, e.g. in eco‐labelling. These issues are addressed through the use of qualitative data from in‐depth interviews with green consumers and reta

ISSN:0964-4733    

DOI:10.1002/bse.3280030401

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis article reviews the emerging discussion on corporate greening. The pioneering authors are found to have drawn on a number of perspectives in their descriptions of the greening process. Their views emphasise the choice of an environmental strategy, reform in management systems, organisational change, cultural change and institutional change. In spite of this conceptual diversity, the first accounts almost unanimously assume that greening will be, and should be, a top‐down process starting from the top management and being implemented through formal measures. This article suggest that these assumptions should be relaxed and both empirical research and managerial practice should be receptive to other varieties of greening, too. In particular, informal and autonomous bottom‐up processes may be very important in such a fundamental transition which greening may in some cases prove to be. This argument is based conceptually on an institutional view on the logics of managerial action, and empirically on studies in other fields of managerial work and on a case study of environmental management in a Finnish chemicals comp

ISSN:0964-4733    

DOI:10.1002/bse.3280030402

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis article attempts to develop an operational measure of the notion of Corporate Environmental Commitment (CEC), through an examination of CEO's perceptions of their firms' behaviour regarding a number of environmental items. This is done by identifying a number of salient items in the literature and integrating them into a survey instrument. The mail survey was administered to the key informants of the 1000 largest organisations in Australia of which 306 responded. Iterative Factor‐Analysis of the data revealed that the questionnaire items (55 items in total) could be statistically collapsed into four factors representing the overall degree of ‘Corporate Environmental Commitment’. The four factors were (1) the degree to which environmental audits are emphasised as an environmental evaluation tool (Audit); (2) the existence and role of a clear and well disseminated environmental policy (Policy); (3) consideration of environmental impacts in assessing future corporate activities including investments&projects (Future Activities) and (4) incorporation of environmental issues in corporate appraisal systems (Appraisal Systems). Internal consistency within each of the four factors revealed significant reliability of all factors. It is suggested that the use of the four‐factor method uncovered in this study bears significant practical relevance, allowing firms to assess their environmental commitment (EC) at the corporat

ISSN:0964-4733    

DOI:10.1002/bse.3280030403

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0964-4733    

DOI:10.1002/bse.3280030404

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0964-4733    

DOI:10.1002/bse.3280030405

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0964-4733    

DOI:10.1002/bse.3280030406

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0964-4733    

DOI:10.1002/bse.3280030407

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0964-4733    

DOI:10.1002/bse.3280030408

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY