Summary
Promoting environmental sustainability may hold relevance for employee-owned organizations. The integration of environmental consciousness into decision-making has the potential to help align environmental and organizational sustainability objectives. However, the literature does not explain how employee-owned organizations make environmentally conscious decisions. This study conducts interviews with top executives of employee-owned organizations to explore how environmentally conscious decision-making unfolds in the experiences of these managers. This study finds that transparency and delegation of authority serve as two key mechanisms that support environmentally conscious decision-making in employee-owned organizations.