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Issues For Small Businesses With Waste Management, Janice Redmond, Elizabeth Walker, Calvin Wang
Issues For Small Businesses With Waste Management, Janice Redmond, Elizabeth Walker, Calvin Wang
Janice Redmond Dr
Participation by small and medium enterprise (SME) in corporate social responsibility issues has been found to be lacking. This is a critical issue, as individually SMEs may have little impact on the environment but their collective footprint is significant. The management style and ethical stance of the owner-manager affects business decision making and therefore has a direct impact on the environmental actions of the business. Although adoption of environmental practices to create competitive advantage has been advocated, many businesses see implementation as a cost which cannot be transferred to their customers. After a brief review of pertinent literature this paper …
Small Business Environmental Management:: Rhetoric Or Reality?, Janice Redmond, Elizabeth Walker, Calvin Wang
Small Business Environmental Management:: Rhetoric Or Reality?, Janice Redmond, Elizabeth Walker, Calvin Wang
Janice Redmond Dr
Objectives - To investigate the attitudes of small business owner-managers toward environmental management. Prior work - Environmental management has commonly been practiced by large companies, however,. The need to engage small businesses also in these practices is crucial to sustainability in Australia. The management of the environmental impact of a small business is the domain of the owner-manager therefore their attitudes are a significant influence and have a direct impact• on participation and action on environmental management and, indirectly, on the local community. Most small business owner-managers are resource poor, both financially and in the amount of spare time available …