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Advancing environmental productivity: Organizational mindfulness and strategies

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  • Setiadi Umar
  • Gibson N. Chunwe

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This study investigates the importance of mindfulness‐based organization systems and policies on the organization's continuous efforts to become a greener company. The study is devised as a pooled cross‐sectional time series analysis of productivity in energy consumption, water utilization, and waste generation and recycling of U.S. companies. The data set taken from U.S. Newsweek 500 recorded 600 companies dispersed into 63 industries during the period of 2012–2014 and provided 1,498 company–industry–year observations. The study found that systems and policies (e.g., deployment of third‐party auditors for its environmental metrics report; linkage of the remuneration of company's senior executive team with the achievement of environmental performance targets; and establishment of a committee at the Board of Directors' level whose mandate includes sustainability of the company in environment‐ and resource‐related matters) connect the company's mindfulness to its effort in improving the environmental quality through the company's productivity in energy consumption, water utilization, and waste generation and recycling. The relationships are positive and significant. Also, systems and policies serve as a motivator for the firm to continue to improve upon the current achievements. The study emphasizes the importance of translating organizational and individual mindfulness into organization policies and systems in order to motivate the organization to continuously improve its productivity in energy consumption, water utilization, and waste generation and recycling leading to improvements in environmental quality.

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  • Setiadi Umar & Gibson N. Chunwe, 2019. "Advancing environmental productivity: Organizational mindfulness and strategies," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 28(3), pages 447-456, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:bstrat:v:28:y:2019:i:3:p:447-456
    DOI: 10.1002/bse.2220
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