ABSTRACT
Change in organisations in general is a major topic in strategic management, organisational development, corporate culture, organisational learning and other areas of management scholarship. The tone of the literature on business and the environment is generally managerialist and voluntaristic, assuming that managers have discretion to change the strategic course of their companies if they so wish. However, changes at the organisational and wider social and economic level are also considered. The purpose of this research was to give a detailed account of the strategic and organisational change processes by which a more comprehensive engagement with environmental issues is developed in six companies. Both the water and sewerage and the electricity industries in the UK were privatised in 1989. This chapter presents case studies of the corporate greening process in six UK water and electricity utilities.
