The Formation of Environmentally Friendly Intentions of SME Owner-Managers in an Emerging Country: The Case of Tunisian’s Textile–Clothing Industry

We have little empirical evidence about the environmentally friendly, intention of owner-managers of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging country context despite recent developments of proenvironmental, practices. The main objective of our study is to address this gap by exploring...

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Published in:Organization & environment 2019-12, Vol.32 (4), p.528-554
Main Authors: Tounés, Azzedine, Tornikoski, Erno T., Gribaa, Fafani
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes
Behavior
Clothing industry
College professors
Developing countries
Emerging markets
Employees
Entrepreneurship
Human influences
Industrialized nations
LDCs
Managers
Markets
Motivation
Small & medium sized enterprises-SME
Small business
Social responsibility
Textiles
Water conservation
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Summary:We have little empirical evidence about the environmentally friendly, intention of owner-managers of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging country context despite recent developments of proenvironmental, practices. The main objective of our study is to address this gap by exploring the antecedents of environmentally friendly intentions among SME owner managers in, emerging market context. To achieve this objective, we test our, hypotheses in the textile–clothing industry in Tunisia. The textile–clothing industry represents high ecological risk due to the waste discharged into the environment. Our empirical observations confirm that the reasoned action approach is particularly robust to predict environmentally friendly intentions of SME owner-managers in an emerging market context.
ISSN:1086-0266
1552-7417
DOI:10.1177/1086026618764267