The realisation of green ideals into management practice: the use of management control system in a hospitality setting

The hospitality sector has been under pressure to ensure that its operations are environmentally sustainable. the effective implementation of green practices requires a link between environmental strategies,management accounting and control. hence,the purpose of this paper is to explain how management control systems support the internalisation of green ideals within an organisation. a case study is undertaken of a hotel that promoted its green image,using dambrin,lambert and sponem's (2007) framework to understand the use of management control systems in the internalisation process of the green philosophy of the hotel. the internalisation of the hotel's environmental management practices (emps) started with the introduction of the ideal of becoming a green hotel,which was translated and communicated through the notion of a business case. the adaption and integration of green practices have been internalised,mainly with the support of the hotel's informal control techniques. © 2017 penerbit universiti kebangsaan malaysia. all rights reserved.