Gestão ambiental: uma súplica do planeta, um desafio para políticas públicas, incubadoras e pequenas empresas
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2010-12-01
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Fonseca, Sergio Azevedo [UNESP]
Martins, Paulo Sérgio
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Associação Brasileira de Engenharia de Produção
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O texto traz uma reflexão sobre o papel das incubadoras de empresas no apoio a práticas ambientais por micro e pequenas empresas. Reconhecendo as debilidades estruturais das empresas de pequeno porte e as dificuldades para a realização de investimentos ambientais, defende o uso de incubadoras como instrumento de política pública para estimular investimentos ambientais. Identifica um número restrito de incubadoras de tecnologias ambientais, em plano internacional. Relata os resultados de uma pesquisa que avaliou a aplicabilidade de um indicador para apurar o desempenho ambiental de incubadoras. Destacaram-se dois resultados: a) a baixa importância atribuída, pelas incubadoras (e pelas empresas abrigadas) ao desempenho ambiental; e b) a ausência de estímulos, pelas incubadoras, aos investimentos ambientais. Desse último resultado deriva importante conclusão: a de que, uma vez apurados os padrões insatisfatórios de desempenho ambiental, de incubadoras e empresas assistidas, ficariam criadas as condições para a formulação e a implementação de medidas indutoras de novas posturas.
The paper aims to contribute to academic reflections on the role of business incubators as institutional agents to promote environmental performance by small firms. Based on the assumption that these firms have natural structural weaknesses and, as a consequence, intrinsic difficulties in investing in environmental assets, the paper suggests that a particular public policy, namely, business incubators, could contribute to overcoming these barriers and thus pave the way for environmental investments. Two important findings should be highlighted: a) the neglect of the incubators investigated (and thus, of the nurtured firms) with respect to environmental performance; b) the absence of stimuli, from business incubators, for environmental investments. From the results, an important conclusion may be drawn: namely, that where weak patterns of environmental performance are identified, both the incubators and the firms being nurtured, should create and implement an array of measures, consisting mainly of public policies, conducive to changes in behaviors and attitudes.
The paper aims to contribute to academic reflections on the role of business incubators as institutional agents to promote environmental performance by small firms. Based on the assumption that these firms have natural structural weaknesses and, as a consequence, intrinsic difficulties in investing in environmental assets, the paper suggests that a particular public policy, namely, business incubators, could contribute to overcoming these barriers and thus pave the way for environmental investments. Two important findings should be highlighted: a) the neglect of the incubators investigated (and thus, of the nurtured firms) with respect to environmental performance; b) the absence of stimuli, from business incubators, for environmental investments. From the results, an important conclusion may be drawn: namely, that where weak patterns of environmental performance are identified, both the incubators and the firms being nurtured, should create and implement an array of measures, consisting mainly of public policies, conducive to changes in behaviors and attitudes.
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Incubadora de empresas, Indicador de estratégia ambiental, Sistema de gestão ambiental, Incubadora de tecnologias ambientais., Avaliação do desempenho ambiental de incubadoras, Business incubators, Environmental strategy indicator, Environmental management systems, Performance evaluation of business incubators
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Produção. Associação Brasileira de Engenharia de Produção, v. 20, n. 4, p. 0-0, 2010.