Environmental sustainability change management in SMEs : learning from sustainability champions

Environmental sustainability change management in SMEs : learning from sustainability champions

Chadee, Doren, Wiesner, Retha and Roxas, Banjo 2011, Environmental sustainability change management in SMEs : learning from sustainability champions, International journal of learning and change, vol. 5, no. 3/4, pp. 194-207.

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Title	Environmental sustainability change management in SMEs : learning from sustainability champions
Author(s)	Chadee, Doren Wiesner, Retha Roxas, Banjo
Journal name	International journal of learning and change
Volume number	5
Issue number	3/4
Start page	194
End page	207
Publisher	Inderscience Publishers
Place of publication	Geneva, Switzerland
Publication date	2011
ISSN	1740-2875 1740-2883
Keyword(s)	environmental sustainability sustainable development change management learning organisations small and medium–sized enterprises SMEs sustainability champions sustainability initiatives design stage internalisation stage implementation stage evaluation stage Queensland Australia learning behaviour change contexts
Summary	This study identifies the change management processes involved in undertaking environmental sustainability (ES) initiatives within Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) and relate these to the main attributes of learning organisations. Using case study techniques, the study draws from the change management experiences of a sample of 12 ES champions in different industries. The findings suggest that the ES champions experience four distinct change management stages in undertaking ES initiatives; namely the design, internalise, implement and evaluate stages. Each stage is also found to relate strongly with a number of key characteristics of learning organisations. Overall, the findings suggest that SMEs with strong learning organisation attributes are more likely to be successful in implementing and managing ES change initiatives. The implications of the findings are also discussed.
Language	eng
Field of Research	150311 Organisational Behaviour
Socio Economic Objective	970115 Expanding Knowledge in Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
HERDC Research category	C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
ERA Research output type	C Journal article
Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30041793

Document type:	Journal Article
Collections:	Faculty of Business and Law School of Management and Marketing

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