... for education as research on Level 4 often tends to neglect the self-descriptive dimension of “inclusion” for the education system, it must be acknowledged that they are not the main focus of this paper. The article argues that environmental requirements, as defined, for example, in the United Nations...

... Environment Management Values Model Leading organizations are changing their stance on formerly intractable stakeholder issues. For example, General Motors (GM) and Ford are signatories to the CERES Principles (CERES, 2000). Both firms embrace voluntary environmental management systems, and subject...

... and environmentally sustainable. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Economy Entrepreneurs Environment Green issues Values 1. In spite of my claim we should recognise that the entrepreneurial concept has been used effectively in mutual situations such as community development by authors such as Flora and Flora...

... new opportunities. This model serves to explain opportunity identification in general but, as we shall see, is equally applicable to the identification of “environmental” opportunities. The adoption of an innovation entails some sort of supporting infrastructure, both tangible and intangible...

... Table II) addressed to the manager in charge of the environmental department; it has been sent via mail to allow managers to understand the required information and represented the basis of the in‐depth case study. Co‐operation Environment Integration Organizational change Value chain...

... are continuously changing in a very dynamic manner. The balance between unacceptable and acceptable behaviour regarding the natural environment not only changes over time, the criteria which make up the definition shift in their relative emphases over time. It is apparent that some environmental impacts can...

..., corporate environmental reports, does not provide sufficient information to examine this important dimension. Therefore, this study limits its use of the entrepreneurship dimensions to internal organizational factors and the external environment as its basis for understanding corporate participation...

...Paul Douglas Keogh; Michael Jay Polonsky Concern for the environment is gathering in importance within organisations and it is increasingly becoming part of organisational strategic agendas. Within that dynamic, organisations are seeking mechanisms through which environmental concerns...

...Todd J. Hostager; Thomas C. Neil; Ronald L. Decker; Richard D. Lorentz 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...

... entrepreneurship emerges. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Economics Entrepreneurship Environment Sociology Environmental entrepreneurship has increased dramatically over the past few years as large numbers of enterprising people have sought to marry an interest in social betterment with their life...

...Lorraine Uhlaner Hendrickson; Dale B. Tuttle Defines environmental entrepreneurship as entrepreneurial activity that benefits the environment. Building on this definition, presents two related conceptual schema that may be used to study environmental enterprises. Presents an environmental...

... is possible. Organization as organism is pre‐modern. It carries the message that organizations are open systems which grow and evolve in adaptive response to environmental stimuli. Organization as machine is modern. It carries the message that organizations can be built consciously to run rationally...

... of competition (Kantrow, 1983; Peters, 1988; Porter, 1980) along with confounding environmental conditions (Lindsay and Rue, 1980; Pfeffer et al., 1976; Terreberry, 1968) have combined to create particularly difficult “employing” situations in organizations. Management finds itself increasingly under...

...), The Greening of Science and God , Bantam Books , New York, NY . Shrivastava , P. (1992), “ Corporate Self‐greenewal: Strategic Responses to Environmentalism ”, Business Strategy and the Environment , Vol. 1 No. 3 , pp. 9 ‐ 21 . Stead , J.G. and Stead , W.E. (1993...

... – such as the risks associated with self‐promotion, dominance of one group′s values over another′s, and the durability of environmentalism in the face of business downturns. Closes with a roster of future research questions. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Ben & Jerry′s Consumers Environment Esprit Green...

... internal and external elements. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Ecology Environment Environmental scanning Management Organizational change Sustainable development TQM Market‐driven environmentalism. A great discovery of the 1980s was the power of market incentives to induce...

... ecological concerns and emphasizes the need to protect the natural environment from harmful economic activities. Because this type of sustainable development has a focus on remedial damage control, it is sometimes called the “business‐as‐usual, plus a treatment plant” approach. One example of environmental...

... environment. Like the cleaning services stereotypically performed by women, an ethos of environmental housekeeping was not part of the guiding “masculine” value system. Just as it was considered men′s divinely‐ordained right to make use of women′s life‐sustaining labour as their “helpmates...

...), “ Task Design: A Literature Review ”, Academy of mance , Vol. 33 No. 2 , Pierce , J.L. , Dunham , R.B. and Cummings , L.L. (1984), “ Sources of Environmental Structuring and Participant Responses ”, Organizational Behavior and Human Performance , Vol. 33 No. 2 , pp. 214...

... objectives (Fortune, 1990). These examples illustrate important trends throughout the business community. We now face environmental issues on a scale, and of a type, never before known to human beings. Managers make thousands of decisions each day that affect the environment in some way, direct or indirect...