ABSTRACT

Employee-driven pro-environmental innovations improve the performance of public organizations and contribute to social well-being. Nevertheless, the factors that impede the emergence of such innovations remain unclear. To shed light on why some employee-driven innovations succeed while others fail, 33 semi-structured interviews with public sector managers and sustainability advisors were conducted. The analysis of individual, organizational, and public sector-specific factors indicated that pro-environmental innovations encounter fewer obstacles in organizations where environmental concerns are substantially integrated into internal practices. Surprisingly, however, employees with sustainability-related duties are facing more obstacles when attempting to launch pro-environmental innovations than their colleagues from other departments.

摘要

员工驱动的环保创新提高了公共组织的绩效并为社会福祉做出了贡献。然而，阻碍此类创新出现的因素仍不清楚。为了阐明为什么一些员工驱动的创新成功而另一些失败，我们对公共部门经理和可持续发展顾问进行了 33 次半结构化访谈。对个人、组织和公共部门特定因素的分析表明，在将环境问题充分纳入内部实践的组织中，亲环境创新遇到的障碍较少。然而，令人惊讶的是，与其他部门的同事相比，承担可持续发展相关职责的员工在尝试发起环保创新时面临更多障碍。