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Public-Private Partnerships for Stimulating the Eco-Efficiency and Environmental Responsability of SMEs

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences

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Title Public-Private Partnerships for Stimulating the Eco-Efficiency and Environmental Responsability of SMEs
 
Creator NEAMŢU, Bogdana; Lecturer, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
 
Subject small and medium enterprises, public-private partnerships, environmental responsibility, Ecoprofit, eco-efficiency, Romania
 
Description This paper investigates the trend of greening the SMEs sector by means of creating publicprivate partnerships. There are two main theoretical concepts used to frame the debate – social corporate responsibility and eco-efficiency. The paper describes and analyzes one possible tool local governments have in order to encourage SMEs to become more efficient from an environmental standpoint – the Ecoprofit-type approach. Ecoprofit is a program implemented in Austria and then extended to other countries in which local governments offer training and certificates to SMEs who want to become more eco-efficient. In the empirical research we tested: a) the perceptions and attitudes of SMEs with regard to the greening of their operations and products/ services; and b) whether Romanian SMEs would be interested in taking part in such a program. The conclusion is that SMEs perceive environmental management as a burden and tend to comply only with the mandatory requirements of the law
 
Publisher Babes Bolyai University
 
Contributor outcome of post-doctoral research financed through a post-doctoral grant under European Social Fund
contract no. POSDRU/89/1.5/S/63663
 
Date 2011-10-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/305
 
Source Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences; 2011: Issue No. 34 E/October; 137-154
1842-2845
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/305/298
 
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