小型企业的废弃物管理问题

中、小型企业缺乏有关企业社会责任活动的参与。尽管单独的中、小型企业对环境的影响不大,但中、小型企业集合起来对环境的影响还是很明显的。企业所有者-管理者的管理方式和道德观念会影响到企业的决策。因此,会对企业的环境行为有直接的影响。虽然,倡导利用环境保护建立企业竞争优势,但许多企业的实施成本是不可能转移给消费者的。本文简要的综述了有关文献后,报告了对这一问题的探索性调查,结果表明无论小企业的管理者怎样表达出对环境问题的关心,都不能转化为较好的废弃物管理。

Issues for small businesses with waste management

Participation by small and medium enterprise（SME）in corporate social responsibility issues has been found to be lacking.This is a critical issue,as individually SMEs may have little impact on the environment but their collective footprint is significant.The management style and ethical stance of the owner-manager affects business decision making and therefore has a direct impact on the environmental action of the business.Although adoption of environmental practices to create competitive advantage has been advocated,this paper reports on an exploratory investigation into the issue.Results show that whereas owner-managers of small enterprises express concern regarding the environment,this does not then translate into better waste management practices.