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Abstract
This paper objectified to bring to light the milk industry managers’ social representations on the environmental
management. For such, the systematization of a theoretic-methodological framework was adopted, whose
interpretation shows that the environmental management, in the view of the researched milk industries managers, runs
three complementary representations. In the first one, the environmental management emerges as an organizational
practice which necessarily aims the execution of state legal environmental norms. In the second one, the same
process refers to the managers’ imagination as an organizational strategy which may contribute for gains in
competitive advantages in the market, which is becoming more and more demanding when it comes to environmental
preservation questions. In the third and last representation, the environmental management is perceived as an
organizational practice that extrapolates the market limits, as it opens space for the adoption of a socially responsible
business attitude.