This paper presents a study in a major pharmaceutical company of how team-based, knowledge-intensive work is positively affected by what we refer to as care. Organization theory directs much effort toward understanding how values, norms and cultures are shared, how they construct meaning and...

The article explores the impact of civil regulation on the environmental behaviour of SMEs. It shows that although civil regulatory pressures are generally subdued, and that conventional regulation continues to be an important driver of behaviour, there are circumstances where civil pressures...

Initiatives to improve waste management are commonly aimed at those in charge of industrial operations and processes. As a consequence of the liability at law, these processes and operations have the ability to impact upon an interest in the property and land which the operator occupies. Where...

This paper outlines the findings of a study into sustainable support systems for wood-using micro-businesses1 (MBs) within a Community Forest. The study looked at how the Community Forest interacted with local MBs, and explored how these could be more successfully integrated into the Community...

Interviews with UK manufacturing SMEs (small and medium enterprises) confirm, in aggregate, that traditional regulation drives environmental behaviour. Yet, beneath this aggregate picture, there are groups of firms that respond to regulation differently. Furthermore, within the aggregate and...

This paper outlines the findings of a study into sustainable support systems for wood-using micro-businesses (MBs) within a Community Forest. The study looked at how the Community Forest interacted with local MBs, and explored how these could be more successfully integrated into the Community...

The authors use empirical research into the environmental practices of 31 manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to show that ‚business performance’ and ‚regulation’ considerations drive behaviour. They suggest that this is inevitable, given the...

The literature on middle managers tends to portray their role in rather negative terms. Middle managers are here stuck in between superiors and subordinates, with few opportunities for determining their work situation. In the construction industry, site managers play a role similar to that of...

Organizational learning is a key mechanism for adapting to changes in the organization's environment, sharing know-how and experiences, and for providing innovative solutions. Practices of organization learning are examined in six Swedish construction projects. In the Swedish construction...

Innovation processes are out of necessity and by definition always open-ended and embedded in social interests and beliefs. This paper reports a study of how a power-split technology for hybrid vehicles needed and found support and interest from a variety of social actors to reach the market....