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Employee Participation In Pollution Reduction: A Socio‐Technical Perspective

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  • S. Antonio Ruiz‐Quintanilla
  • John Bunge
  • Adrienne Freeman‐Gallant
  • Ed Cohen‐Rosenthal

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Is industrial pollution reduction solely a matter of applying technical solutions to technical problems, or do organizational strategies and human factors also play an important part? In 1991 the US Environmental Protection Agency began collecting data on organizational strategies in pollution control as part of its Toxic Release Inventory database. An exploratory analysis of the 1991–1992 Toxic Release Inventory data revealed evidence that internally based, socially driven organizational strategies such as employee participation can have a dramatic impact on pollution reduction. The results are reported here of the second phase of this research: the approach is broadened to define general ‘internal’ versus ‘external’ strategies, and ‘social’ versus ‘technical’ approaches. There is strong evidence that the combination of internal and external strategies is superior to either alone; there is even stronger evidence that a socio‐technical approach is better than either alone, and still stronger support for a combination of all of these criteria.

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  • S. Antonio Ruiz‐Quintanilla & John Bunge & Adrienne Freeman‐Gallant & Ed Cohen‐Rosenthal, 1996. "Employee Participation In Pollution Reduction: A Socio‐Technical Perspective," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 5(3), pages 137-144, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:bstrat:v:5:y:1996:i:3:p:137-144
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0836(199609)5:33.0.CO;2-K
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    1. Olivier Boiral, 2005. "The impact of operator involvement in pollution reduction: case studies in Canadian chemical companies," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 14(6), pages 339-360, November.
    2. Olivier Boiral & Pascal Paillé & Nicolas Raineri, 2015. "The nature of employees’ pro-environmental behaviors," Post-Print hal-03795985, HAL.
    3. Renee Paulet & Peter Holland & Andrew Bratton, 2021. "Employee Voice: The Missing Factor in Sustainable HRM?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(17), pages 1-16, August.
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    5. Liu, Junjun & Hu, Houbao & Tong, Xun & Zhu, Qinghua, 2020. "Behavioral and technical perspectives of green supply chain management practices: Empirical evidence from an emerging market," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 140(C).
    6. David P. Angel & Joseph Huber, 1996. "Building Sustainable Industries For Sustainable Societies," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 5(3), pages 127-136, September.
    7. Catherine A. Ramus & Annette B. C. Killmer, 2007. "Corporate greening through prosocial extrarole behaviours – a conceptual framework for employee motivation," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 16(8), pages 554-570, December.

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