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NAVARRETE BAEZ, Francisco Ernesto  e  LABELLE, François. Energy management and sustainable organizational development in the Small Medium Enterprises of Jalisco. Trascender contab. gest. [online]. 2023, vol.8, n.22, pp.2-18.  Epub 26-Jun-2023. ISSN 2448-6388.  https://doi.org/10.36791/tcg.v8i22.194.

In this work we present an initial research on the practices of small and medium-sized enterprises in Jalisco, Mexico regarding policies on their sustainable energy management. Based on the philosophy of change and sustainable organizational development, corporate social responsibility, the environmental field of sustainable development and the demands of the global market. A self-developed survey was applied to the owners or managers of SMEs on Sustainable Development practices focused on energy management, on a representative sample of more than 200 SME in the region. The first outcomes found were that a third of the SMEs interviewed carry out sustainable energy management practices in a systematic way, in addition to finding an association with those SMEs that carry out these practices and in turn implement their own research and development, apply innovation, in addition to they belong to an external group and a high level of education of the entrepreneur.

Palavras-chave : energy management; SME sustainability; organizational development.