Conceptualising the essence of a green organisation

Abstract

The international community, the European Union, encourage to address global ecology problems immediately, e.t. since 2010, the European Commission, by recognising the important role and contribution to improving the quality of environment, each year announces the green capital of Europe – this is the city in which the most favourable conditions for ecological lifestyle are established and which may become an example to other cities. The paper gives an analysis of the change in the concept of an organization, defines a paradigm of a green organization, and formulates the most important features of a green organization. Special attention is devoted to the assessment of specific components of a green organization. With an aim of making an analysis of the concept of a green organization, while refining the characteristic features of a green organization, the methods of comparative analysis and synthesis as well as abstrahation have been applied. New organisational features characterizing their adaptation to the changing environment are formed. Identification of these features, their exclusivity enables to conclude that a new type of the organisation has formed – the green organisation.