| Publication type: | Book part |
| Type of review: | Not specified |
| Title: | Enhancing ecopreneurship through an environmental management system : a longitudinal analysis of factors leading to proactive employee behaviour |
| Authors: | Pichel, Kerstin |
| DOI: | 10.4337/9781848441552.00015 |
| Published in: | Sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship |
| Editors of the parent work: | Wüstenhagen, Rolf Hamschmidt, Jost Sharma, Sanjay Starik, Mark |
| Page(s): | 141 |
| Pages to: | 196 |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Series: | New perspectives in research on corporate sustainability |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Edward Elgar |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Cheltenham |
| ISBN: | 978-1-84720-037-2 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Umweltschutzverhalten; Proaktiv; Längsschnittanalyse; Umweltmanagementsystem |
| Subject (DDC): | 658.4: Executive Management |
| Abstract: | Does the implementation of Environmental Management Systems (EMS) lead to more self-driven environmental behaviour at work? To more Ecopreneurship? A longitudinal analysis in six German firms between 1997 and 1999 identified the following predictors of Ecopreneurship: transparency of corporate environmental management activities; eco-specific training courses; expectations about success of environmental activities; valence of environmental protection; and incentives. Except for incentives, all antecedents were found to have a positive effect on Ecopreneurship. Firms with EMS activities were characterized by a more positive assessment of the antecedents of Ecopreneurship than those without EMS activities. During the two year research period, the antecedents improved in the EMS-companies, while Ecopreneurship did not. This may be explained by either time lags in behavioural changes, or by a mediating influence of aspects of corporate culture, such as the importance of environmental protection among the firms objectives; the willingness to change; or the appreciation of proactive employee behaviour. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/13035 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | School of Management and Law |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute for Organizational Viability (IOV) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen School of Management and Law |
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