Perceptions of environmental and social responsibility from managers/owners of micro, small and medium enterprises in the Greater Western Sydney Region

Alessandro Bressan; Fernanda Duarte; Bobby Banerjee

Perceptions of environmental and social responsibility from managers/owners of micro, small and medium enterprises in the Greater Western Sydney Region

Alessandro Bressan
, Fernanda Duarte
, Bobby Banerjee

School of Business

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Abstract

There is virtually no research in Australia on how micro, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) address environmental and social issues" in particular considering that the Australian SME sector account for almost 99% of all private sector entities. This paper presents the preliminary findings of a qualitative study which addressed this gap through an investigation of perceptions of owner and managers of SMEs based in the Western Sydney Region, in relation to environmental and social issues. The findings reveal that, while participants were aware of and had a genuine concern for environmental and social issues affecting SMEs, they were often unable to engage in environmental and social responsibility practices due to factors such as cost, time pressures and lack of government support.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 25th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management International Conference (ANZAM 2011), 7-9 December 2011, Wellington, New Zealand
Publisher	ANZAM
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Print)	9781877040870
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management. International conference - Duration: 7 Dec 2011 → …

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Conference	Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management. International conference
Period	7/12/11 → …

Keywords

New South Wales
Australia
environment and sustainability
environmental sciences
Western Sydney (N.S.W.)
economics
Centre for Western Sydney

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Bressan, Alessandro ; Duarte, Fernanda ; Banerjee, Bobby. / Perceptions of environmental and social responsibility from managers/owners of micro, small and medium enterprises in the Greater Western Sydney Region. Proceedings of the 25th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management International Conference (ANZAM 2011), 7-9 December 2011, Wellington, New Zealand. ANZAM, 2011.

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Bressan, A, Duarte, F & Banerjee, B 2011, Perceptions of environmental and social responsibility from managers/owners of micro, small and medium enterprises in the Greater Western Sydney Region. in Proceedings of the 25th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management International Conference (ANZAM 2011), 7-9 December 2011, Wellington, New Zealand. ANZAM, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management. International conference, 7/12/11.

Perceptions of environmental and social responsibility from managers/owners of micro, small and medium enterprises in the Greater Western Sydney Region. / Bressan, Alessandro; Duarte, Fernanda; Banerjee, Bobby.
Proceedings of the 25th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management International Conference (ANZAM 2011), 7-9 December 2011, Wellington, New Zealand. ANZAM, 2011.

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Conference Paper › peer-review

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