ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the organisations employing up to 50 people, operating in a range of different sectors, which are proactive on environmental management. Indeed, a majority of small and medium-sized enterprises that address environmental performance stop at the active stage. The chapter explores the prompted these proactive organisations to act. It investigates how they approach environmental management—are they working mainly informally or do they tend to apply more formalised approaches, including management systems? The chapter examines the outcomes of their action—whether they have improved environmental performance; if so, how, and what other benefits or disadvantages have resulted from their actions. It also explains the use they make of information provided by government agencies about environmental management. Even organisations that allocate management time to environmental considerations, and thereby establish themselves as being 'managed', can select a variety of different approaches to environmental management.
