Sustainable practices are more than ever on the radar screen of organizations, triggered by a growing demand of the wider population towards approaches and practices that can be considered "green" or "sustainable". Our specific intent with this call for action is to immerse deeper into the role...

I am sure you’ve heard it too: Green is the new Black. While this was true back in the days when Henry Ford introduced process standardization with his assembly line for the Ford Model T (over 15 million of these were sold!), Green is also the color of choice for many business organizations,...

Traditionally, environmental education has been aimed at the community or in primary schools and governmental pressure to reduce environmental damage has focussed on large businesses. More recently, the role and importance of small business and how to engage them in the environmental debate has...

Traditionally, environmental education has been aimed at the community or in primary schools and governmental pressure to reduce environmental damage has focussed on large businesses. More recently, the role and importance of small business and how to engage them in the environmental debate has...

Environmental management practices are common in large companies, but rare in small businesses even though, collectively, their environmental footprint is substantially greater. There is, therefore, a crucial need to engage small businesses in practices that reduce their environmental impact and...

It could be argued that the quest for integration is at the core of sustainable developmentimplementation issues. Although there is no simple answer to the integrationchallenge there is no doubt that organisational integration and coordinationcomprise a critical ingredient in any prescription...

Agro-industries seem as an alternative to development to Sergipe semi-arid region that has to cope with the social and economicdifficulties of local population and the climatic adversities as well. This study has the objective to identify the profile, managementpractices and the environmental...

This article focuses on the problem: what external (stakeholder) and internal (structural/organizational) factors drive companies inthe food- and agribusiness towards innovative environmental management? Innovative companies are those considered to have adopted asupply-chain perspective, instead...

In a developing country context, a policy to promote adoption of common environmental content for corporate codes of conduct (COCs) aspires to meaningful results on two fronts. First, adherence to COC provisions should offer economic benefits that exceed the costs of compliance; i.e., companies...