Archetypes of Green-Growth Strategies and the Role of Green Human Resource Management in Their Implementation

Ana Labella-Fernández
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Ana Labella-Fernández: Economics and Business Department, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 2, 1-15

Abstract: This paper aims to develop a conceptual framework that explains how organizations address green growth. By integrating perspectives of organizational learning and ambidexterity, this paper proposes four archetypes of green-growth strategies. On the basis of exploration and exploitation dimensions, the proposed strategic green-growth archetypes are environmental-laggard, cooperative, entrepreneurial, and ambidextrous approaches. This paper suggests propositions about how to implement entrepreneurial and cooperative archetypes. It is also proposed that cooperative and entrepreneurial archetypes necessitate a set of the best and well-defined green human resource management (HRM) practices oriented towards strategic environmental goals. This paper thus proposes specific green HRM practices that better fit with each archetype. Lastly, this research concludes with a discussion of research implications.

Keywords: green growth; strategy; archetypes; exploration; exploitation; ambidexterity; green HRM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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