An examination of the operational aspects of environmental management and how they are experienced by middle managers. Also highlighted are the development of various training initiatives relating to middle management with detailed examples of training programmes. Finally, the question of a...

This report presents the results of a study which focused on the role and education and training requirements of lower management and skilled and semi-skilled workers in the light of the new corporate environment-related strategies. The report covering Denmark and Germany only, highlights some...

Many countries have introduced comprehensive environmental protection laws during the last few decades in response to the direct, visible environmental impacts of industrial activities. This has often resulted in specific technical regulations, but it has gradually been recognized that a change...

The concept of corporate environmental management has existed for the last two to three decades. Many companies have fully or partly adopted the concept in their efforts to eliminate or reduce the impacts on the natural environment caused by their business activities. The question is, however,...

About a decade ago Mitton (1989) suggested that success for start-ups not only depends on who you are but also on whom you know. Around the mid-90s research results were published showing that essential resources for start-ups were in fact acquired through the entrepreneurs' social networks...

The education and training of the workforce has long been recognised as an essential ingredient in promoting and implementing environmental management practices in business organisations. So far, however, even in leading companies, little information has been available on how environmental...

Managers are faced with the challenge of an ever-changing environment, ranging from increasing globalisation, through the technologization of physical processes, to virtual ways of communicating. The response to this has been a gradual shift from rule-based to value-based management styles and...