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Is there a place for employee-driven pro-environmental innovations? The case of public organizations

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  • Alexander Yuriev
  • Olivier Boiral
  • David Talbot

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Employee-driven pro-environmental innovations improve the performance of public organizations and contribute to social well-being. Nevertheless, the factors that impede the emergence of such innovations remain unclear. To shed light on why some employee-driven innovations succeed while others fail, 33 semi-structured interviews with public sector managers and sustainability advisors were conducted. The analysis of individual, organizational, and public sector-specific factors indicated that pro-environmental innovations encounter fewer obstacles in organizations where environmental concerns are substantially integrated into internal practices. Surprisingly, however, employees with sustainability-related duties are facing more obstacles when attempting to launch pro-environmental innovations than their colleagues from other departments.

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  • Alexander Yuriev & Olivier Boiral & David Talbot, 2022. "Is there a place for employee-driven pro-environmental innovations? The case of public organizations," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(9), pages 1383-1410, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpxmxx:v:24:y:2022:i:9:p:1383-1410
    DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2021.1900350
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