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Title: | Sustainability motivations and practices in small tourism enterprises in European protected areas |
Author: | Font, Xavier Garay, Lluis Jones, Steve |
Others: | Leeds Beckett University Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) |
Citation: | Font, X., Garay, L. & Jones, S. (2016). Sustainability motivations and practices in small tourism enterprises in European protected areas. Journal of Cleaner Production, 137(), 1439-1448. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.01.071 |
Abstract: | A survey of around 900 tourism enterprises in 57 European protected areas shows that small firms are more involved in taking responsibility for being sustainable than previously expected, including eco-savings related operational practices but also reporting a wide range of social and economic responsibility actions. Two-step cluster analysis was used to group the firms in three groups based on their motivations to be sustainable. Business driven firms implement primarily eco-savings activities and are commercially oriented. Legitimization driven firms respond to perceived stakeholder pressure and report a broad spectrum of activities. Lifestyle and value driven firms report the greatest number of environmental, social and economic activities. No profile has a higher business performance than average. The study has implications for policy programmes promoting sustainability behaviour change based primarily on a business case argument. |
Keywords: | business case legitimization social capital altruism lifestyle corporate social responsibility |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.01.071 |
Document type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Version: | info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion |
Issue Date: | Jan-2014 |
Publication license: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
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