Gestão e desempenho ambiental: uma análise através da teoria do ciclo de vida organizacional

• Ano de defesa: 2018
• Autor(a) principal: Sarmento, Thais Lira de Figueiredo
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Finanças e Contabilidade; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Contábeis; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Gestão ambiental; Desempenho ambiental; Desempenho organizacional; Environmental management; Environmental performance; Organizational performance; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO::CIENCIAS CONTABEIS
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/15304

Inserting environmental variable into organizational processes through innovative actions that reduce its impact on environment and continuous performance evaluation in search of competitive advantages becomes indispensable for continuity of organizations owing demands of society and regulatory bodies. In this scenario, a diversity of environmental practices are adopted promote by dynamism of environment in which they are inserted, and the organizational life cycle theory is discussed in the literature as a way to understand specific variations of the firm. Based on assumptions, the research was conducted by analyzing the organizational characteristics of environmental management through environmental practices and monitoring based on life cycle theory. The research was realized through a questionnaire, with companies that have environmental certifications active in Brazil, obtaining a sample of 112 companies. The profile of respondents includes companies with a potentially high potential level of pollution risk, with a market time of over 20 years and in growth stage. In understanding of distinct environmental practices and organizational characteristics was observed greater statistical influence in stage of life cycle. It was also verified that managers' understanding of environmental practices and the degree of monitoring through indicators, oscillate according of the stage that organization. As characteristics at each stage, was observed that at birth, organizations only develop environmental awareness practices to obtain competitive advantages and have very low use of indicators to monitor their practices. In growth, environmental practices are mainly aimed at improving reputation with greater use of operational indicators, reflecting an internal discipline of environmental issues. In maturity, the practices are a great propulsive in reach competitive advantages, majority management indicators being used, but not use operational indicators to monitor water and atmospheric emissions from its activities. In revival is highlighted as a stage of more sophisticated practices, including Research and Development (R&D) with focus for developing cleaner products and processes and more use of operational indicators, reflecting coherent environmental management. Finally, the declining reflects a lack of credibility that environmental practices can drive the company into competitive advantages. In research has demonstrated evidence in understanding of environmental management supported by the life cycle theory and, although companies believe that environmental practices can conduct to competitive advantages, there is incoherence of how they perform the monitoring through indicators, reflecting impossibility to measure and reflection of practices in their environmental performance. In this way, life-cycle theory can sum to interpretations of environmental issues and organizational performance, capturing specific internal and external variations needed to direct environmental management to improve performance.