An empirical study on mechanism of the influence of organizational characteristics in environmental management

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380465
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Management
• Research Institution: Niigata University (2016); Kagawa University (2014-2015)
• Principal Investigator: Kimata Akira 新潟大学, 人文社会・教育科学系, 教授 (10448350)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 環境保護文化 / ポーター仮説 / 言説分析 / ネットワーク組織

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Following the fact that firms are required “environment management” to incorporate environmental conservation activity in their management purpose by international consensus aiming at sustainable economic development, this study set the causation of hypothesis that there is a difference of cultural dimension in firms whether they are balancing between minimizing environmental impacts and maintaining corporate growth or not. Further, the study fixed a new concept of “environmental protection culture” to examine the causal mechanism of environment management through the quantitative and qualitative analysis. Within the study period of three years, it can be said that we accomplished almost all of original plan because we finished the whole investigation through questionnaire design, panel data collection, shallow and deep quantitative analysis, interviews of firms and the qualitative analysis by discourse analysis.

Free Research Field

経営学