Abstract
Management style and decision-making create an organization’s culture and influence its performance also in the pro-ecological dimension. Therefore, this paper’s originality lies in how it explores the effect of management style to inform our understanding of decision-making when using a sustainable approach. However, the cause-and-effect relations between decisions and management style remain vastly unexplored. The paper’s aim is to explore whether the management style serves as a basis for decision-making or if it is an effect of decisions. This research addresses a research question: is the management style a basis for decision-making or an effect of the decisions in a pro-ecological context? We used a comprehensive literature review by using inductive and deductive approaches to analyze the relations between decision-making and management style. The paper also illustrates how organizational culture images can inform accounts of business realities influencing organizations’ green strategies. The analogies followed relations between color symbol and guiding metaphor. The article presents a theoretical discussion on the influence of management style on decision-making in the organization, based on original literature research in pro-ecological strategy related decisions. As a result, a decision-making style model is proposed. This nonorthodox approach might open up new avenues of thought in the field of decision-making, management styles, and pro-ecological strategy. Theoretical and managerial implications and directions for future research are also addressed.
Highlights
Modern organizations have to survive in a rapidly changing, competitive business environment, protect the natural environment [1] and act responsibly in society [2]
These strategic decisions are related to responsibility and freedom [4,31,115] or elasticity and rigidity [72,116], within the organization and its management style [30,117] in the pro-ecological strategy context
It is often compared to breathing because this activity is theofessence a natural process [62]
Summary
Modern organizations have to survive in a rapidly changing, competitive business environment, protect the natural environment [1] and act responsibly in society [2] They create, through decisions, their pro-ecological strategies [3,4,5,6]. Decisions are a fundamental element of every human action [8], based on mental activities [9], but in this research, we are dedicated to discussing the relations between management styles and decision-making in a pro-ecological approach, as opposed to discussing the decision-making process itself [10]. Among the most important factors are those creating an organizational culture (with shared views, values, and ideas) related to the organization’s functioning in the changing business environment [26,27] Another contribution is that our findings proved and allowed us to set future research assumptions in the pro-ecological strategy approach. We present managerial implications and future research proposals and the limitations of this study
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