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

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.