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标题：Investigating the factors for achieving and encouraging environmental certification: Driving and restraining forces
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作者：Stephanie M. E. Ching ; Elena Cavagnaro
期刊名称：Research in Hospitality Management
印刷版ISSN：2224-3534
电子版ISSN：2415-5152
出版年度：2018
卷号：8
期号：2
页码：143-154
DOI：10.1080/22243534.2018.1553385
语种：English
出版社：Taylor & Francis Group
摘要：Environmental sustainability has increasingly become a priority for organisations. However, the public and academic attention is generally on large companies, while small and medium enterprises constitute the bulk of organisations and are arguably lagging behind. Fewer than ten per cent of total environmental certifications are awarded to small hotels. This lack of attention represents an opportunity to investigate small hotels and how to increase certification numbers. On the basis of existing literature, three overreaching factors that hold managers back from achieving certification were individuated: motivations, personal values, and barriers. To explore whether these factors play a role in small hotels too, semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten hotel managers/owners in the Netherlands. The findings include the discovery of three new barriers: other priorities, negative views regarding certification, and building restrictions. More specifically, findings suggest that hoteliers do not proceed with certification because they perceive it as unambitious and meaningless, and thus not worth the effort. Simultaneously, managers seem to have a limited understanding of the scope and depth of existing certification. This study provides certifying organisations an insight into small hotel managers’ viewpoints; information that can be used to better reach this important target group.
关键词：barriers; environmental certification; environmental measures; motivation; small hotels