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Organization & Environment – June, 2015; 28 (2)
Table of Contents - http://oae.sagepub.com/content/current

Collaborative Guest Editorial

Practicing What We Teach (and Research): Paradoxes on the Paths to
Advancing Sustainable Academic Careers and Lifestyles
Organization & Environment June 2015 28: 131-136
Mark Starik and Eva Collins
http://oae.sagepub.com/content/28/2/131.full.pdf+html

Articles

A Three-Dimensional Conceptual Framework of Corporate Water Responsibility
Organization & Environment June 2015 28: 137-159
Fabien Martinez
http://oae.sagepub.com/content/28/2/137.full.pdf+html
This article offers a conceptual framework that comprehensively
describes essential aspects of corporate water responsibility. What
heretofore has been essentially regarded as an issue to be tackled by
governmental institutions, and therefore not perceived as an important
component of the value that is created for the institutional and
private owners of profit-driven companies, is explicitly treated here
as a corporate responsibility. Bridging knowledge domains, I review
major research works conducted by management, corporate
sustainability, and (welfare) economics scholars and focusing on water
management issues to unveil the conditions under which corporations
are likely to manage, or to be challenged in managing, water in
responsible/sustainable ways. Three types of "tensions" that confront
academics and managers alike are discussed: voluntary actions versus
coercion, free riding versus cooperation, and economic versus
corporate water responsibility motives. I propose a three-dimensional
framework of corporate water responsibility for thinking through the
managerial response patterns contemplated to address these tensions


In Vino Veritas: Understanding Sustainability With Environmental
Certified Management Standards
Organization & Environment June 2015 28: 160-180
Brooke Lahneman
http://oae.sagepub.com/content/28/2/160.full.pdf+html

This article explores differences in the degrees of agreement
regarding sustainability among adopters and nonadopters of
environmental certified management standards (ECMS). Utilizing a mixed
methodological approach called cultural consensus modeling, I
investigate whether and how the adoption of ECMS is associated with
how organizations understand the broad and imprecise concept of
sustainability. I find that organizations with an ECMS have higher
average cultural competencies regarding shared meanings of
sustainability. Furthermore, the highest average cultural competencies
surrounding meanings of sustainability are held by those organizations
that have adopted an ECMS program that provides a high level of detail
in practice descriptions, sets demanding objectives to achieve, and
tailors practices specifically for the wine industry. Adoption of such
ECMS programs is associated with nuanced patterns in organizations'
understandings of sustainability, aligning meanings and practices
surrounding the otherwise imprecise issue of sustainability.


Being Green Against the Wind? The Moderating Effect of Munificence on
Acquiring Environmental Competitive Advantages
Organization & Environment June 2015 28: 181-203
Javier Martinez-del-Rio, Raquel Antolin-Lopez, and Jose J. Cespedes-Lorente
http://oae.sagepub.com/content/28/2/181.full.pdf+html

We analyze the effect of munificence on the development of a proactive
environmental strategy (PES) and firm performance. In addition, we
examine the moderating role of perceived munificence on the
association between innovation capabilities and PES and between PES
and firm performance. These relationships are tested in a sample
consisting in 263 Spanish agricultural firms operating in three
different geographical clusters. Our results broadly support our
hypotheses and suggest that although perceived munificence favors the
development of a PES, it is in hostile environments where PES
generates competitive advantages.


Being Good When Not Doing Well: Examining the Effect of the Economic
Downturn on Small Manufacturing Firms' Ongoing Sustainability-Oriented
Initiatives
Organization & Environment June 2015 28: 204-222
Rajat Panwar, Erlend Nybakk, Jonatan Pinkse, and Eric Hansen
http://oae.sagepub.com/content/28/2/181.full.pdf+html

How firms behave under conditions of decline and resource constraints
has not been considered in the corporate sustainability literature.
This leaves unanswered the question how much we should rely on firms'
sustainability-oriented voluntary initiatives at a time when the
global economy continues to be weak and firms face persistent threats
of decline. In addressing this question, we first argue that the
effect of a decline would be different for peripheral and core
initiatives. Using data gathered from 478 small firms representing
multiple manufacturing sectors in the United States through a survey,
we empirically demonstrate that a decline in a firm's financial
performance is associated with a higher decline of peripheral
initiatives than of core initiatives. We further found that a decline
in peripheral initiatives was even greater when a firm operated in a
relatively dynamic context. Contextual dynamism, however, did not
affect decline in core initiatives.


The Means and End of Greenwash
Organization & Environment June 2015 28: 223-249
Thomas P. Lyon and A. Wren Montgomery
http://oae.sagepub.com/content/28/2/223.full.pdf+html

Corporate claims about environmental performance have increased
rapidly in recent years, as has the incidence of greenwash, that is,
communication that misleads people into forming overly positive
beliefs about an organization's environmental practices or products.
References to greenwash in the literature have grown rapidly since the
term was introduced more than 2 decades ago, with a sharp increase in
articles since 2011. We review and synthesize this fragmented and
multidisciplinary literature, showing that greenwash is a broad
umbrella term that encompasses a variety of specific forms of
misleading environmental communication. More research is needed that
identifies and catalogues the varieties of greenwash, theorizes and
models their mechanisms drawing on existing social science research,
and measures their impacts on corporate performance and social
welfare.

J. Alberto Aragon-Correa and Mark Starik, Co-Editors-in-Chief