Factors affecting organizational mindfulness in green practice implementation: an empirical study

Organizational mindfulness is an organizational attitude that allows firms to be preoccupation with failure, reluctance to simplify interpretations, sensitivity to operations, commitment to resilience, and deference to expertise. Firms require mindfulness thinking in green practice implementation. Although a number of studies on green practice implementation can be found in the literature, none of them analyzed organizational mindfulness in green practice implementation. The main purpose of this paper is to explore the factors affecting organizational mindfulness by conducting a questionnaire survey to logistics companies in Taiwan. The determinant factors are grouped into technological, organizational and environmental dimensions. Research findings revealed that technological, organizational and environmental factors have significant influences on organizational mindfulness in green practice implementation. In addition to extending the scope of research on green management in service industries, this paper can equip research on organizational mindfulness with some empirical evidence.