Österberg Peter and Berlin Daniel

Can A Market Based Generative Learning Management Style Explain the Conditions Or
Characteristics That Make an Organization More Likely To Commit To, and Perform On,
Environmental Issues?

Österberg Peter and Berlin Daniel
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Department of Economics
PO Box 7013
750 07 Uppsala
Sweden

Abstract
The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that the interaction between a manager’s ability on Goal Setting on Environmental Issues (GSEI) and his/her ability on creating a climate or Parallel Knowledge Distribution within the organization (PKD), also called ‘Market based generative Learning Management style’, can predict organizational Performance on Environmental Issues (PEI), mediated by employees Decision Commitment on Environmental Issues (DCEI) and Symbolic Convergence (SC). The preliminary result of the study is two folded. First, no effect was found for communication (PKD), Symbolic Convergence (SC), or participation in the decision making process (DCEI). Second, even if the path analysis showed strong significance between the four variables in the study, the mediating variables together with LCT could not out rule the single effect of LCT.

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