Levels of pro-environmental maturity in micro and small enterprises

• Autorzy: Kucęba Robert

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.2478/czoto-2019-0033

• Konferencja: 7th International Conference System Safety: Human - Technical Facility - Environment, CzOTO 2018 (7 ; 12-14.12.2018 ; Zakopane, Poland)
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The underlying objective of the paper is to indicate pro-environmental awareness level in micro and small enterprises and its influence on this sector’s activity in the context of environmental management. The author has introduced a taxonomy of pro-environmental awareness and also pro-environmental security, pro-environmental culture and pro-environmental ethics. Heterogeneous pro-environmental attitudes of units/entities (including business entities) have been aggregated in the paper, in the context of their transformation from a passive towards active attitude. The elaborated levels of pro-environmental awareness growth have been summarised in a chronological grasp, which constituted the subject of the research with reference to the subject matter of the paper defined in its title. The author has also justified the selection of the research subject - micro and small enterprises, which are a source of surface contamination (local one), but not always perceived as beneficiaries of the natural environment. With reference to the adopted subject of the research the author has made an attempt to evaluate the pro-environmental awareness of the purposefully selected population of micro and small enterprises. Maturity level of their pro-environmental awareness has also been evaluated according to the adopted scale described and explained in the theoretical part of the paper, which is a narrow part of the conducted research and an attempt to answer the question: What is the maturity level of pro-environmental awareness in micro and small enterprises and is it reflected in their green activity in the conducted business activity?.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

micro and small enterprises; pro-environmental awareness; pro-environmental security; environmental management

PL

mikro i małe przedsiębiorstwa; świadomość proekologiczna; bezpieczeństwo proekologiczne; zarządzanie środowiskiem

• Wydawca: De Gruyter
• Czasopismo: System Safety : Human - Technical Facility - Environment
• Rocznik: 2019
• Tom: Vol. 1, nr 1
• Strony: 256--264
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 17 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Kucęba Robert

• Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland

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Uwagi

Opracowanie rekordu w ramach umowy 509/P-DUN/2018 ze środków MNiSW przeznaczonych na działalność upowszechniającą naukę (2019).