Environmental Management and Corporate Social Responsibility Practices of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Prasanta K Dey, Nikolaos Petridis, Konstantinos Petridis, Chrisovalantis Malesios, Jonathan D Nixon, Kumar Ghosh

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The main aim of this paper is to facilitate small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt environmental management (EM) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices. The study reveals SMEs‟ motivation, pressure, targets and methods for EM and CSR practices. Additionally, the paper investigates how these variables relate to employee number, turnover and geographical locations. The outcomes of the research will add value to SMEs decision-making processes in both strategic and policy levels (e.g. supplier selection) and policymakers‟ initiatives to make SMEs environment and socially friendly. Although there are studies on EM and CSR practices of SMEs, they mainly focus on impact of EM and CSR practices on business performance, and SMEs‟ motivation for adopting EM and CSR practices in specific country. Studies that reveal SMEs‟ motivation, pressure, targets and methods for EM and CSR practices and their relationship with their characteristics (e.g. size, turn over, and geographical location) are scant. This research bridges this gap. Our data originates from 223 carefully selected representative SMEs in the West Midlands, UK (105) and Kolkata, India (118) covering manufacturing and process industries. The relevant data was collected using questionnaires and analysed using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) methods. The results reveal that perceptions of SMEs‟ motivation, pressure, targets and methods of EM and CSR practices vary considerably with respect to size, turn over and geographical location. The findings are significant to policymakers, client organizations and individual SME for improving EM and CSR practices.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)687-702
JournalJournal of Cleaner Production
Volume195
Early online date28 May 2018
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 28 May 2018

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small and medium-sized enterprise
Environmental management
environmental management
Industry
variance analysis
turnover
Analysis of variance (ANOVA)
corporate social responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility
Small and medium-sized enterprises
multivariate analysis
manufacturing
decision making

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Keywords

  • Environmental management
  • Corporate social responsibility
  • SMEs
  • Developed/emerging economies

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Dey, Prasanta K ; Petridis, Nikolaos ; Petridis, Konstantinos ; Malesios, Chrisovalantis ; Nixon, Jonathan D ; Ghosh, Kumar. / Environmental Management and Corporate Social Responsibility Practices of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. In: Journal of Cleaner Production. 2018 ; Vol. 195. pp. 687-702.
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Dey, PK, Petridis, N, Petridis, K, Malesios, C, Nixon, JD & Ghosh, K 2018, 'Environmental Management and Corporate Social Responsibility Practices of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 195, pp. 687-702. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.05.201

Environmental Management and Corporate Social Responsibility Practices of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. / Dey, Prasanta K; Petridis, Nikolaos; Petridis, Konstantinos; Malesios, Chrisovalantis; Nixon, Jonathan D; Ghosh, Kumar.

In: Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 195, 28.05.2018, p. 687-702.

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Dey PK, Petridis N, Petridis K, Malesios C, Nixon JD, Ghosh K. Environmental Management and Corporate Social Responsibility Practices of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2018 May 28;195:687-702. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.05.201

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