Walking the Talk? Environmental Responsibility from the Perspective of Small-Business Owners
Walking the Talk? Environmental Responsibility from the Perspective of Small-Business Owners
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DOI：
10.1002/csr.266
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发表时间：
2011-05-01
影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
Perry, Martin
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作者：
Battisti, Martina;Perry, Martin
中小型企业由于采用可持续商业做法的比率低，一般被描述为环境可持续性方面的失败者。这种判断是在将大公司制定的和为大公司制定的框架和标准适用于中小企业时产生的。这种评估可能会对采用可持续的商业做法造成误导，因为中小企业并不仅仅是小型的大公司。中小企业的业绩应采用适合小企业情况的基准进行评估。根据对新西兰50名小企业主的采访，我们探讨了如何理解环境责任并将其转化为实践。本文有助于新兴的研究流，旨在建立一个理论的环境责任，是基于中小企业所有者-管理者的经验，并考虑到中小企业部门的异质性和特点。版权所有（C）2011约翰威利父子有限公司和ERP环境。
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have generally been portrayed as failures in relation to environmental sustainability due to their low take-up rates of sustainable business practices. This judgment arises when frameworks and standards that have been developed in, and for, large firms are applied to SMEs. Such assessment can provide a misleading impression of the uptake of sustainable business practices, as SMEs do not operate simply as miniature large firms. The performance of SMEs should be assessed using benchmarks that fit the circumstances of small firms. Based on interviews with 50 small-business owners in New Zealand, we explore how environmental responsibility is understood and translated into practice. This paper contributes to the emerging stream of research that aims to build a theory of environmental responsibility that is grounded in the experiences of SME owner-managers, and takes into account the heterogeneity and characteristics of the SME sector. Copyright (C) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.