Organization Management Journal
Abstract
This article presents an exploratory empirical study of the role of gender in sustainability initiatives and practices in a sample of 925 men and women from American companies. We explore gender differences and their implications for sustainability values, priorities, and perceptions of sustainability-related activities in the workplace. Drawing from studies of sustainability, gender, and environmental values and action, our study finds that corporate women hold sustainability-related concerns and values to be significantly more important to them personally than do their male colleagues, and they view and evaluate their companies’ sustainability-related value priorities, initiatives, and activities from these foundational ethical and value orientations. We conclude with a research agenda that includes identifying the actual participation of women in corporate sustainability initiatives, and also the organizational enablers and impediments of their empowered action and leadership.
Recommended Citation
Slepian, Joan L. and Jones, Gwen E.
(2013)
"Gender and Corporate Sustainability: On Values, Vision,
and Voice,"
Organization Management Journal: Vol. 10:
Iss.
4, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarship.shu.edu/omj/vol10/iss4/3