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The Influence of Strategic and Organizational Factors as Concern the Relationship between Environmental Management Control and Organizational Learning: The Case of one Eco Missionary SME
[La influencia de los factores estratégicos y organizativos en la relación entre el control de la gestión ambiental y el aprendizaje organizativo: el caso de un misionero eco-PME]

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  • Angèle Renaud

    (CREGO - Centre de Recherche en Gestion des Organisations - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar - UB - Université de Bourgogne - UBFC - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] - UFC - Université de Franche-Comté - UBFC - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE])

  • Nicolas Berland

    (DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris sciences et lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

This article examines the relationship between Environmental Management Control (EMC) and Organizational Learning (OL) by extending the theoretical model of Simons (1995) in a contingent perspective. Through strategic and organizational factors, this enriched model expounds the links between the Simons's (1995) levers of control (diagnostic and interactive controls) and the Argyris and Schön's (1978) levels of learning (simple loop learning and double loop learning). Based on the "revelatory case" of a missionary organization, eco-SME, this study highlights the influence of three contingency factors : strong core values, proactive strategy and activity life cycle in the four configurations of EMC-OL relationships identified.

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  • Angèle Renaud & Nicolas Berland, 2020. "The Influence of Strategic and Organizational Factors as Concern the Relationship between Environmental Management Control and Organizational Learning: The Case of one Eco Missionary SME [La influe," Post-Print hal-02276360, HAL.
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