Assessment of business incubators' green performance: A framework and its application to Brazilian cases

作者：Fonseca Sergio Azevedo; Chiappetta Jabbour Charbel Jose

来源：Technovation, 2012, 32(2): 122-132.

DOI：10.1016/j.technovation.2011.10.006

• Business incubators
• Environmental management in small enterprises
• Environmental management assessment
• Brazil

The lack of proposals to evaluate the greening of business incubators - or even of elementary discussions about the relations between incubators and the environment - becomes apparent when researching this topic in the most prestigious scientific sources. To address this gap, this article reviews the literature on green management and smaller enterprises, business incubator performance and the greening of business incubators. This conceptual big-picture was used to identify variables relevant to the construction of a framework for assessing business incubators' green performance. This framework was applied to six business incubators in Brazil. The results show the appropriated applicability of this framework. Furthermore, the empirical research led to the formulation of environmental maturity levels in order to classify business incubators performance. This paper seeks to offer a starting point for discussion and a proposal regarding the role of business incubators in a more sustainable society.

• 出版日期2012-2