How to Avoid Pigeonholing the Environmental Manager ?

Boucher, Julien; Jenny, Clotilde; Plummer, Zara; Schneider, Gerhard

doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0342.v1

2018

DOI: 10.20944/preprints201806.0342.v1

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How to Avoid Pigeonholing the Environmental Manager ?

Julien Boucher¹,

Clotilde Jenny²,

Zara Plummer³

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Abstract: Abstract:The research investigates the role the environmental manager plays to ensure a successful 9 (or not) implementation of environmental performance within an organization. It is based on 10 interviews of 5-7 actors per company within a sample of 7 companies (42 interviews). 11We build upon bias of perception of the various actors interviewed within each company to define 18We suggest that these paradoxes interact and form a vicious cycle that may in part be responsible

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Architect, Catalyst, Advocate, and Prophet: A Four-Lens View of Companies to Support Ecodesign Integration

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Companies are increasingly expected to develop products with better environmental performance throughout their life cycle. Academic literature on ecodesign integration, which investigates firms’ practices of dealing with environmental concerns associated with their products, indicates a need for more focus on formal and informal organizational aspects. From the general management literature, the four-lens view of organizations provides a rich understanding of organizations by embracing their formal (structural lens) and informal (human, political and symbolic lenses) functioning. This article aims to explore the extent to which the four-lens view may support ecodesign integration in companies. This exploratory study builds on fifteen interviews about ecodesign integration at seven manufacturing companies in Denmark and Norway. The main results are threefold: (i) the different lenses of organizations could be found in measures mentioned at the case companies; (ii) measures from the architect’s perspective seemed necessary to provide an official scene for ecodesign and help prioritizing it in organizations; and (iii) the catalyst’s, advocate’s, and prophet’s perspectives seemed necessary to facilitate or complement the architect’s perspective. In the light of these findings, the four-lens view seems relevant to strengthen ecodesign integration, and its potential use as a reflective tool is an avenue for future work.

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How to Avoid Pigeonholing the Environmental Manager ?

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