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El papel de la información medioambiental en el cambio organizativo: el caso del sector turístico balear

The role of environmental reporting in organizational change: the case of the balearic tourist sector

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Pages 501-522 | Received 30 Jun 2004, Accepted 02 Nov 2005, Published online: 15 Jan 2014
 

RESUMEN

Se ha entendido que la contabilidad medioambiental podía ser una forma de proporcionar visibilidad y poder a los partícipes preocupados por la incidencia medioambiental de la empresa y que esto traería consigo el cambio de las organizaciones. La crítica de esta teoría, ha conducido a Gray et al. [1995] a estudiar el papel de la contabilidad en el proceso de cambio de las organizaciones. Tomando este segundo enfoque teórico como punto de partida, el presente trabajo estudia la incidencia que sobre el cambio organizativo tiene la obligación de informar de todas las empresas turísticas que se han certificado por EMAS. El estudio empírico del sector turístico balear, basado en la realización de entrevistas semiestructuradas, permite concluir que la información medioambiental se utiliza para mejorar la imagen de organizaciones que no están cambiando profundamente, aunque sí llevan a cabo iniciativas limitadas. La falta de presión por parte del público hace que, contrariamente a la evidencia aportada por otros estudios, estas empresas no utilicen la información medioambiental como una forma de controlar y limitar la cuestión medioambiental.

ABSTRACT

Environmental accounting has been seen as a way of increasing visibility and empowering stakeholders, concerned by the environmental effects of companies. This would lead to an organizational change. Earlier critique to this view led Gray et al. [1995] to study the role of accounting in the process of organizational change. Taking this theoretical framework as a starting point, this paper studies how the obligation to report for all the companies that in the tourist sector are certified by EMAS impact on organizational change. The empirical study in the Balearic tourist sector, based on semi-structured interviews, leads to conclude that environmental reporting is being used to improve the image of organizations that are not experimenting dramatic changes, but only undertaking limited initiatives. Conversely to the evidence found in other studies, the lack of public pressure leads these companies not to use environmental reporting as a way of controlling and limiting the environmental issue.

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