SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: A PROPOSED TAXONOMY BASED ON MANAGEMENT STUDENTS’ ENVIRONMENTAL PERCEPTION

• Autor(a) principal: Junior-Ladeira, Wagner
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Santini, Fernando de Oliveira, Araujo, Clecio Falcão
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Administração (São Paulo. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://raep.emnuvens.com.br/raep/article/view/80
• topic: sustainability initiatives; environmental awareness; higher wducation institution.; práticas sustentáveis; consciência ambiental; Instituição de ensino superior.

In many Higher Education Institutions (hei), environmental initiatives are being consolidated into institutional strategies. However, business and management literature still lacks a clear understanding about the possible effects of such programs for raising sustainability awareness among students in the area of management. In this sense, the present paper aims toanalyze how the environmental sustainability practices developed by the hei's are perceived by management students. For this purpose, the behavior of 755 students from four heis, all of which have had sustainability programs in place for at least five years, was studied. After analyzing the results, a taxonomy contributing an empirical categorization directly relatedthe students’ environmental awareness and understanding of the heis sustainability initiatives was created. In addition to generating three clusters showing distinct behaviors (lack of perception of sustainability initiatives; sustainability initiatives are restricted to marketing actions; creation and dissemination of sustainability practices as a major strategy), this taxonomy also helped to understand how management students perceive the sustainability programs developed by the heis.