Sustainable Consumption in Organizations: Multi-Method Approaches to the Study of Pro-Environmental Behavior in the Workplace
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Drivers and barriers, sustainable lifestyles, large-scale organizations, the workplace, multi-method approaches.Abstract
The present paper aims at briefly presenting the LOCAW project (Low Carbon at Work), an European Union FP7-funded project which aims at advancing understanding of the barriers and drivers to sustainable lifestyles by researching the determinants of everyday practices and behaviours in the workplace. The project focuses on six large-scale organizations, occupying different positions in the sustainability debate. The multi-method approach of the project is presented, with a special emphasis on the use of back-casting scenarios as an innovative methodology that can help design sustainable change patterns in organizations. Finally, this paper will present the preliminary results of the first part of the project, which focuses on the diagnosis of everyday practices in the workplace. Both the back-casting scenarios methodology and the preliminary results will be presented by referring only to the Spanish case study of the project.Downloads
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