This study is exploratory research examining the relationship between the news media and environmental collaborations. It reports the results of a 2008 online survey of the 250 members of the EPA's National Roster of Environmental Conflict Resolution and Consensus Building Professionals. The study asked about the impact of the media on environmental collaborations, but the major finding actually concerned the significant impact that the process of collaboration has had on the press and its role in environmental problem-solving. Collaboration professionals in this study apparently no longer see the press as a major influence in environmental dispute resolution. The most common estimate of press impact was "slight". A large majority of respondents (71%) said the news media overall have a positive or neutral impact on environmental collaboration outcomes -- surprising numbers, considering the past negative history of the press and environmental issues. From the practitioner's perspective, the most important finding may concern Media Ground Rules (guidelines that govern how collaborations interact with the news media). With Media Ground Rules in place, 74% of collaborations reported the press had a positive impact. In contrast, a negative press impact was reported by 60% of collaborations without Media Ground Rules in place. Since 2008, we have seen growth in environmental collaboration, but at the same time, wholesale closures of American newspapers, along with a stunning decline in the number of environmental reporters and environmental coverage in local news. This study looks at the implications of these developments for accountability and environmental collaborations. / Ph. D.

Yes / This article investigates the impact of environmental collaboration on sustainable innovation and its impact on firm growth. The hypotheses are tested using data from 455 small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana. The findings from the study show that environmental collaboration positively relates to sustainable innovation and this relationship is moderated by environmental commitment. The results also show that sustainable innovation is positively associated with SME growth. Finally, the results suggest that sustainable innovation mediates the environmental collaboration‐SME growth relationship. The theoretical and practical implications of the study are discussed.

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2015-10-06T16:48:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ROSELEI HAAG_.pdf: 1169810 bytes, checksum: 1591d24df570168350007209b0cb307d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-10-06T16:48:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ROSELEI HAAG_.pdf: 1169810 bytes, checksum: 1591d24df570168350007209b0cb307d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-30 / Nenhuma / O objetivo deste trabalho foi identificar a relação entre o desempenho ambiental com a terceirização, a colaboração ambiental com os fornecedores e a multinacionalidade. A pesquisa propôs três hipóteses derivadas da literatura, e as testou a partir de dados de survey em plantas de manufatura. Para tal, os construtos utilizados foram extraídos do projeto de pesquisa internacional denominado High Performance Manufacturing (HPM). A amostra consiste em empresas do banco de dados da quarta rodada do projeto, coletado em três setores (eletroeletrônico, veículos automotores e máquinas e equipamentos). Após o tratamento dos dados, obteve-se o total de 257 pesquisas válidas. Os dados foram analisados estatisticamente através de Modelagem de Equações Estruturais. Como resultado, a pesquisa identifica que a colaboração ambiental com fornecedores influencia positivamente o desempenho ambiental nas plantas da amostra. No entanto, não foi encontrada relação significativa entre a multinacionalidade e a terceirização com o desempenho ambiental. Este trabalho contribui às discussões teóricas e práticas para os estudos de estratégia em manufatura, ao demonstrar empiricamente que as práticas de colaboração ambiental com os fornecedores podem resultar em uma melhoria do desempenho ambiental. / The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between the environmental performance with outsourcing, environmental cooperation with suppliers and multi-nationality. The research proposed three hypotheses derived from the literature, and tested from by a database survey on manufacturing plants. To this end, the constructs used have been taken from the international research project called High Performance Manufacturing (HPM). The sample consists of companies out of a database in the fourth round of the project, collected in three sectors (electronics, motor vehicles and machinery and equipment). After processing the data, we obtained a total of 257 valid surveys. The data have been statistically analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling. As for the results, this identifies that the environmental cooperation with suppliers has a positively influence to the environmental performance in the plants. However, there was no significant relationship between multinationality and outsourcing with environmental performance. This present work contributes to the theoretical and practical discussions for manufacturing strategy in studies to empirically demonstrate that the environmental practices of collaboration with suppliers may result in an improvement of environmental performance.