The Institutionalization of Environmental Concerns

Lanni Füssel and Susse Georg

International Studies of Management & Organization, 2000, vol. 30, issue 3, 41-58

Abstract: We offer an account of the process of“greening,” exploring how an environmental management tool becomes embedded in organizational rhetoric and practice. This is depicted as a process of translation in which the “original” tool is transformed to fit the context. Theoretically, we seek to complement new institutional theory by providing an understanding of the institutionalization of environmental concerns in organizations. Sensemaking and actor-network theories are used to conceptualize the process of institutionalization as it goes on inside organizations. The empirical basis is a study of the introduction of green accounting in a public hospital in Denmark.

Date: 2000
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (6)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00208825.2000.11656794 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:30:y:2000:i:3:p:41-58

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/mimo20

DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2000.11656794

Access Statistics for this article

International Studies of Management & Organization is currently edited by Abraham Stefanidis

More articles in International Studies of Management & Organization from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().