Relative Study on the Environment Related Leadership Hold by Strategic Business Units: Specific Contribution to Industrial Organizations | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

In the last two decades, entrepreneurs and academia from the management area have been dealing with inquiries about how and why companies should integrate environmental issues into strategic decision-making. Thus, the concern with the environmental issue has made all ports rethink their relations with the environment. This article aimed at verifying that environmental management activities in small and medium-sized companies of the metal-mechanic segment of the central Madhya Pradesh (M.P.) region are in line with their business strategies. For that, it was carried out a study of collective cases in four companies of this segment business. The data were analyzed by means of the inductive content. The results revealed the existence of strongly committed to environmental management and environmental practices aligned with their strategies, contrary to the pessimism of literature. In addition, research evidenced that the characteristic of the formality, understood like registry and horizon of strategic planning, maintained a contradictory relationship with the adoption of proactive environmental management in the SMEs studied.