Organizational Design and Environmental Performance: Clues from the Electronics Industry

Organizational Design and Environmental Performance: Clues from the Electronics Industry

A congruence model of organizational design suggests that direct reporting relationships between plant managers and environmental quality managers, monetary incentives for environmental performance, and coordination between environmental quality managers and business strategists reduce plant-level t...

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Published in:Academy of Management journal Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 582 - 593
Main Authors: Russo, Michael V., Harrison, Niran S.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Briarcliff Manor Academy of Management 01-08-2005
Subjects:
Business management
Business organization
Business studies
Compensation
Corporate strategies
Data analysis
Economic incentives
Electronics industry
Emissions control
Empirical research
Environmental management
Environmental management systems
Environmental policy
Environmental quality
Factories
Green businesses
Management science
Organization theory
Performance management
Pollutant emissions
Pollution
Quality management
Regression analysis
Studies
Toxic emissions
U.S.A
United States > US
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Summary:A congruence model of organizational design suggests that direct reporting relationships between plant managers and environmental quality managers, monetary incentives for environmental performance, and coordination between environmental quality managers and business strategists reduce plant-level toxic emissions. We tested these relationships in a large sample of U.S. electronics facilities. Only a link between plant manager compensation and environmental performance reduced emissions. Subsequent analyses support a reverse causality, suggesting organizational characteristics result from (rather than cause) emissions performance and that firms remain reactive on environmental issues. These findings confront theories of environmental management and congruence with provocative questions, which we discuss in depth.
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ISSN:0001-4273
1948-0989
DOI:10.5465/AMJ.2005.17843939