IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jadmsc/v14y2024i10p264-d1500759.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A Comparison of Green Policy Ambitions by Examining Slovak and Hungarian Small Enterprises

Author

Listed:
  • János Varga

    (Keleti Károly Faculty of Business and Management, Óbuda University, 1034 Budapest, Hungary)

  • Ágnes Csiszárik-Kocsir

    (Keleti Károly Faculty of Business and Management, Óbuda University, 1034 Budapest, Hungary)

  • Mónika Garai-Fodor

    (Keleti Károly Faculty of Business and Management, Óbuda University, 1034 Budapest, Hungary)

Abstract

Climate change is a problem for all of us and must be tackled as a priority, not just as the responsibility of national economic policies. It has not only environmental but also economic and social consequences. Climate change can change people’s daily lives, strongly affecting their health and mood. It will reshape the way the economy works, affect the way we use our resources, and impact on the state of our environmental assets. Emissions are one of the most important causes of global warming and are largely responsible for adverse changes in the ecosystem. Many businesses will need to fundamentally transform their operations to become climate neutral. Entire sectors will have to innovate and abandon current (polluting) solutions in order to allow businesses to do business in new and greener ways. This requires money, skills, knowledge, innovation and of course, leadership commitment. This paper sets out to examine the business case for greening. The study focuses on the behavior of enterprises and draws conclusions on environmental awareness by comparing two countries. The paper presents the results of quantitative primary research on a Hungarian and a Slovak sample, using a pre-tested standardized questionnaire survey. We analyzed responses from 427 enterprises in the Hungarian sample and 181 in the Slovak sample. The results show which enterprises in each country can be relied on most to implement sustainable, green policies and what the main challenges are in terms of promoting more sustainable behavior among enterprises in the two countries under study.

Suggested Citation

  • János Varga & Ágnes Csiszárik-Kocsir & Mónika Garai-Fodor, 2024. "A Comparison of Green Policy Ambitions by Examining Slovak and Hungarian Small Enterprises," Administrative Sciences, MDPI, vol. 14(10), pages 1-21, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jadmsc:v:14:y:2024:i:10:p:264-:d:1500759
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/14/10/264/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/14/10/264/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Mary Fox & Christopher Zuidema & Bridget Bauman & Thomas Burke & Mary Sheehan, 2019. "Integrating Public Health into Climate Change Policy and Planning: State of Practice Update," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(18), pages 1-22, September.
    2. Agnieszka Matuszewska-Pierzynka, 2021. "Relationship between corporate sustainability performance and corporate financial performance: evidence from U.S. companies," Equilibrium. Quarterly Journal of Economics and Economic Policy, Institute of Economic Research, vol. 16(4), pages 885-906, December.
    3. Mastini, Riccardo & Kallis, Giorgos & Hickel, Jason, 2021. "A Green New Deal without growth?," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 179(C).
    4. Claudia Kemfert & Dorothea Schäfer & Willi Semmler, 2020. "Great Green Transition and Finance," Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics;Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), vol. 55(3), pages 181-186, May.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Łukasz Jarosław Kozar & Robert Matusiak & Marta Paduszyńska & Adam Sulich, 2022. "Green Jobs in the EU Renewable Energy Sector: Quantile Regression Approach," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(18), pages 1-21, September.
    2. Fremstad, Anders & Paul, Mark, 2022. "Neoliberalism and climate change: How the free-market myth has prevented climate action," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 197(C).
    3. D. D’Amato, 2021. "Sustainability Narratives as Transformative Solution Pathways: Zooming in on the Circular Economy," Circular Economy and Sustainability, Springer, vol. 1(1), pages 231-242, June.
    4. Dafermos, Yannis & Nikolaidi, Maria, 2022. "Assessing climate policies: an ecological stock–flow consistent perspective," Greenwich Papers in Political Economy 38039, University of Greenwich, Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre.
    5. Tobias Angel & Alexandre Berthe & Valeria Costantini & Mariagrazia D’Angeli, 2024. "How the nature of inequality reduction matters for CO2 emissions," Working Papers 2024.14, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
    6. Liu, Wen & Xu, Jiaqi & She, Shengxiang, 2023. "Green economic development by increasing efficiency of natural resource consumption," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 85(PB).
    7. Khan, Yasir & Hassan, Taimoor & Guiqin, Huang & Nabi, Ghulam, 2023. "Analyzing the impact of natural resources and rule of law on sustainable environment: A proposed policy framework for BRICS economies," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 86(PA).
    8. Heather Krasna & Katarzyna Czabanowska & Shan Jiang & Simran Khadka & Haruka Morita & Julie Kornfeld & Jeffrey Shaman, 2020. "The Future of Careers at the Intersection of Climate Change and Public Health: What Can Job Postings and an Employer Survey Tell Us?," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(4), pages 1-15, February.
    9. D'Orazio, Paola & Hertel, Tobias & Kasbrink, Fynn, 2022. "No need to worry? Estimating the exposure of the German banking sector to climate-related transition risks," Ruhr Economic Papers 946, RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Dortmund University, University of Duisburg-Essen.
    10. Alice Barreca & Rocco Curto & Giorgia Malavasi & Diana Rolando, 2022. "Energy Retrofitting for the Modern Heritage Enhancement in Weak Real Estate Markets: The Olivetti Housing Stock in Ivrea," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(6), pages 1-24, March.
    11. repec:fst:rfsisf:v:8:y:2023:i:special-june_2023:p:83-94 is not listed on IDEAS
    12. Koskimäki, Teemu, 2023. "Targeting socioeconomic transformations to achieve global sustainability," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 211(C).
    13. Tallgauer, Maximilian & Schank, Christoph, 2024. "Challenging the growth-prosperity Nexus: Redefining undergraduate economics education for the Anthropocene," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 216(C).
    14. Lin, Yuanxiong & Anser, Muhammad Khalid & Peng, Michael Yao-Ping & Irfan, Muhammad, 2023. "Assessment of renewable energy, financial growth and in accomplishing targets of China's cities carbon neutrality," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 205(C), pages 1082-1091.
    15. George E. Halkos & Panagiotis-Stavros C. Aslanidis, 2023. "Addressing Multidimensional Energy Poverty Implications on Achieving Sustainable Development," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(9), pages 1-30, April.
    16. Paola D’Orazio & Lilit Popoyan, 2022. "Realising Central Banks’ Climate Ambitions Through Financial Stability Mandates," Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics;Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), vol. 57(2), pages 103-111, March.
    17. Lee, Chien-Chiang & Wang, Fuhao & Chang, Yu-Fang, 2023. "Does green finance promote renewable energy? Evidence from China," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
    18. Strzałkowski, Andrzej, 2024. "Adaptation and operationalisation of sustainable degrowth for policy: Why we need to translate research papers into legislative drafts?," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 220(C).
    19. Mutasim Asa’d & Wan Norhayati Wan Ahmad & Hazeline Ayoup, 2024. "Environmental Management Accounting Information and Environmental Performance, the Mediating Effect of Environmental Decision Quality," International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Econjournals, vol. 14(2), pages 562-573, March.
    20. Simone Lucatello & Roberto Sánchez, 2022. "Climate Change in North America: Risks, Impacts, and Adaptation. A Reflection Based on the IPCC Report AR6 - 2022," Remef - Revista Mexicana de Economía y Finanzas Nueva Época REMEF (The Mexican Journal of Economics and Finance), Instituto Mexicano de Ejecutivos de Finanzas, IMEF, vol. 17(4), pages 1-18, Octubre -.
    21. Christoph Schneider & Niko Wilke & Andreas Lösch, 2022. "Contested Visions for Transformation—The Visions of the Green New Deal and the Politics of Technology Assessment, Responsible Research and Innovation, and Sustainability Research," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(3), pages 1-15, January.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jadmsc:v:14:y:2024:i:10:p:264-:d:1500759. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.