Is there a place for employee-driven pro-environmental innovations? The case of public organizations

Alexander Yuriev, Olivier Boiral and David Talbot

Public Management Review, 2022, vol. 24, issue 9, 1383-1410

Abstract: Employee-driven pro-environmental innovations improve the performance of public organizations and contribute to social well-being. Nevertheless, the factors that impede the emergence of such innovations remain unclear. To shed light on why some employee-driven innovations succeed while others fail, 33 semi-structured interviews with public sector managers and sustainability advisors were conducted. The analysis of individual, organizational, and public sector-specific factors indicated that pro-environmental innovations encounter fewer obstacles in organizations where environmental concerns are substantially integrated into internal practices. Surprisingly, however, employees with sustainability-related duties are facing more obstacles when attempting to launch pro-environmental innovations than their colleagues from other departments.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2021.1900350

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