Climate Change in Decisions Making of Small and Medium Organizations ; Cambio Climático en la Toma de Decisiones de Pequeñas y Medianas Organizaciones
Environmental management practices can be limited in small and medium-sized organizations, due to restrictions on access to capital, lack of training, and poor motivation of decision makers due to incorrect assimilation of the message or short-term urgencies. The objective was to study the perceptions, attitudes, and environmental practices of SME decision-makers, with respect to the perception of the problem, the influence of the media, the incentive architecture and the long-term effect. Using a descriptive and correlational approach, decision-makers and owners of Argentine SMEs were surveyed on organizational factors, decision-making practices and behaviors around climate change. The results showed that there is greater implementation of environmental practices when organizations are regulated by government policies and when there are market requirements. The enabling factors were networking and long-term planning. Management implications include the need for an incentive architecture that models the behavior of decision makers and reduces the asymmetry generated by the long-term effect to increase the implementation of policies and promote the learning curve in the different sectors. ; Las prácticas de gestión ambiental pueden resultar limitadas en las pequeñas y medianas organizaciones, debido a restricciones de acceso al capital, falta de capacitación la y escasa motivación de los decisores por una incorrecta asimilación del mensaje o por urgencias cortoplacistas. El objetivo de este trabajo fue estudiar las percepciones, actitudes y medidas de decisores de pymes en torno al cambio climático, contextualizándolo en la percepción de la problemática, la influencia de los medios de comunicación, la arquitectura de incentivos y el efecto del largo plazo. Mediante un enfoque descriptivo y correlacional se encuestó a decisores y dueños de pymes argentinas sobre factores organizacionales, prácticas de toma de decisiones y comportamientos en torno al cambio climático. Los resultados demostraron que existe mayor ...