Individual's Attitudes Within Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises to Environment and Environmental Compliance, 1996-1997

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br>The aims of the study were : to understand better the attitudes of individuals within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to environmental compliance and non-compliance including whether they regard the latter as crimes, and to understand the influence of such attitudes on business responsiveness and responsibility.<br>
The study also had six main objectives : to determine awareness and attitudes of individuals in SMEs to the environment and environmental protection; to determine people's definitions of compliance and whether environmental non-compliance is comparable to other types of crime; to consider the relationship between attitudes and corporate culture, and also with perceived preventative behaviour; to examine the influence of social values on business attitudes and stakeholder responses; to examine any apparent differences of attitudes of the legal profession to environmental offences and the influence upon individuals in businesses; to consider the potential effects of attitudes to environmental compliance upon policies encouraging self-regulation and the achievement of the objectives of sustainable development.<br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>The dataset contains 387 responses by individuals, management and non-management, from within small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs), to a structured postal questionnaire covering four subject areas : personal attitudes to the environment; attitudes to environmental non-compliance scenarios presented in a business context; attitudes to environmental crime as compared with other crimes; attitudes to general business and specific individual company responses to the environment and environmental compliance.<br>
Standard Measures<br>
Likert scales utilised on personal attitudes to the environment and applied to the 42 questions on business response to environment and environmental compliance.

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本研究的核心目标为：深化理解中小型企业（small and medium-sized enterprises, SMEs）内从业人员对环境合规与环境违规的态度，包括其是否将环境违规视作犯罪行为；同时探析此类态度对企业响应行为与责任履行的影响。
本研究同时设定六项核心研究议题：其一，明确中小型企业（SMEs）内从业人员对环境与环境保护的认知水平及态度取向；其二，厘清各界对合规的定义范畴，并判断环境违规行为是否可与其他类型犯罪等同视之；其三，探析态度与企业文化、以及感知到的预防行为之间的内在关联；其四，考察社会价值观对企业态度及利益相关方响应的影响机制；其五，分析法律从业者对环境犯罪的态度差异及其对企业从业人员的传导影响；其六，研判环境合规态度对鼓励自我监管的政策及可持续发展目标达成的潜在效应。
<b>核心研究主题</b>：本数据集收录了来自中小型企业（SMEs，small and medium-sized businesses）内管理层与非管理层从业人员的387份有效回复，调研采用结构化邮寄问卷，涵盖四大主题领域：个人对环境的态度；针对企业场景中环境违规情景的态度；针对环境犯罪相较于其他犯罪类型的态度；以及对整体商业实践与特定企业个体在环境及环境合规方面的响应态度。
标准化测量方式：李克特量表（Likert scales）被应用于个人环境态度的测量，并覆盖了42道与企业环境响应及环境合规相关的调研题目。