Organizational mechanisms in environmental management: an evolutionary analysis confronted with empirical facts

Arman Avadikyan, Daniel Llerena () and Katrin Ostertag
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Arman Avadikyan: BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Daniel Llerena: IREPD - Institut de Recherche Économique sur la Production et le Développement - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Katrin Ostertag: CIRED - centre international de recherche sur l'environnement et le développement - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AgroParisTech - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: In this paper we analyse the development of corporate environmental management systems through the core elements of the emerging evolutionary theory of the firm. The environmental management process means a process by which organizations change their structures and cultures as a result of an interlinked effort of individual learning and organizational transformation. We propose that effective environmental management capacities derive primarily from the adaptation of three constitutive mechanisms of firms: the coordination mechanisms, the cognitive mechanisms and the incentive mechanisms. Our theoretical results are supported by case studies in 12 industrial firms localized in France (Alsace) and in Germany (Baden-Wurtemberg).

Keywords: Environmental management; Theory of the firm; Incentive; Cognitive and coordination mechanisms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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Published in International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management, 2001, 1 (1/2), pp.45-60. ⟨10.1504/IJETM.2001.000739⟩

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DOI: 10.1504/IJETM.2001.000739

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