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- Title
Driving Water Management Change Where Economic Incentive is Limited.
- Authors
Egan, Matthew
- Abstract
The maintenance of safe and reliable water supplies presents a challenge for communities across the world. This paper responds by exploring how five large food and beverage producing organisations operating in Australia were able to develop some focus on water management at a time of acute drought. Despite weak economic and regulatory drivers, a heterogeneous range of responses was developing across all five organisations. Drawing on Laughlin's (Organ Stud 12(2):209-232, ) model of organisational change, we argue that each reshaped or developed archetypes and subsystems to enable a focus on improving efficiencies. Some were motivated by little more than compliance and so the extent of change was limited. A sense of community pressure was able to drive some change to interpretive schemes in two of the five organisations. Broad cultural change, supported by clear board level mandate, became critical to the survival of new practices. We also demonstrate that management level staff with a passion to champion water efficiency can be instrumental in driving change. This paper contributes to our understanding of water management, and to the factors needed to embed developing practice.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; WATER supply management; DROUGHTS; FOOD production; ORGANIZATIONAL change; COMMUNITY involvement; INDUSTRIAL management; WATER efficiency; ORGANIZATIONAL effectiveness
- Publication
Journal of Business Ethics, 2015, Vol 132, Issue 1, p73
- ISSN
0167-4544
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10551-014-2309-2