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Seeing ecology and “green” innovations as a source of change

Azzone, Giovanni; Noci, Giuliano - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 11 (1998) 2, pp. 94-111

States that over the last few years, the growing importance of the ecological question has led many executives to modify their business policies. The integration of “green” issues in the process of strategy formation has significant financial, managerial and organizational implications for...

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Wetlands and entrepreneurs: mapping the fuzzy zone between ecosystem preservation and entrepreneurial opportunity

Bryant, Thomas A.; Bryant, Joseph E. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 11 (1998) 2, pp. 112-134

The modern economy of North America has been built on nearly five centuries of natural resource exploitation. Wetlands have been part of that pattern, with drainage and filling used to convert them to higher economic values. Ecological research and social value changes have been accumulating in...

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Cultivating the Garden of Eden: environmental entrepreneuring

Anderson, Alistair R. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 11 (1998) 2, pp. 135-144

Presents a discussion on the nature of environmentalism and the nature of enterprise. It argues that while, superficially, these concepts might appear to be contradictory, on examination key communalities become evident. Crucially, both are recognised to be social processes which are based on...

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Encouraging the identification of environmental opportunities

Krueger, Norris - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 11 (1998) 2, pp. 174-183

States that an organization that seeks to survive must keep identifying viable new opportunities. An organization that wishes to grow must do an even better job of identifying viable new opportunities. However, opportunities are in the eye of the beholder. Identifying opportunities does not mean...

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Seeing environmental opportunities: effects of intrapreneurial ability, efficacy, motivation and desirability

Hostager, Todd J.; Neil, Thomas C.; Decker, Ronald L.; … - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 11 (1998) 1, pp. 11-25

In this paper we present a model that shows how ability, efficacy, motivation and desirability affect performance in the task of recognizing new environmental opportunities. Drawing on decades of research, ranging from Bandura’s landmark studies of self‐efficacy to Lindsley et al. model of...

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Pollution prevention as corporate entrepreneurship

Lober, Douglas J. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 11 (1998) 1, pp. 26-37

Environmental entrepreneurship is usually thought of as the creation of new products or services to meet environmental market opportunities. Pollution prevention is a new concept of the idea of environmental entrepreneurship as it is process based and focused on reducing costs rather than...

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Environmental commitment: a basis for environmental entrepreneurship?

Keogh, Paul Douglas; Polonsky, Michael Jay - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 11 (1998) 1, pp. 38-49

Concern for the environment is gathering in importance within organisations and it is increasingly becoming part of …

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Collective entrepreneurship: the mobilization of college and university recycling coordinators

Lounsbury, Michael - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 11 (1998) 1, pp. 50-69

Most theories of entrepreneurship have focused on explaining individual actions, neglecting the extent to which entrepreneurs are embedded in particular socio‐historical contexts that shape both opportunity structures and the interactions that enable particular entrepreneurial responses to...

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Using environmental paradigms to understand and change an organization’s response to stakeholders

Johnson, Douglas B.; Macy, Granger - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 14 (2001) 4, pp. 314-335

A model is developed which allows an organization to assess its environmental perception and how that perception may impact its response to stakeholders. The model differentiates an organization’s socioecological responsibility across four dimensions for placement on Colby’s five‐paradigm...

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Sustainability and competitive advantage from a developing economy

Kwarteng, Amoako; Dadzie, Samuel Ato; Famiyeh, Samuel - In: Journal of Global Responsibility 7 (2016) 1, pp. 110-125

indicate that economic and social have a positive impact on the corporate image but not the environment. In addition, corporate … image and social have positive impact on corporate performance, whilst economic and environment seem not to have any impact … the Ghanaian environment. It is important, therefore, for firms in Ghana to invest in social sustainability initiatives …

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