Barriers to the adoption of proactive environmental strategies

Murillo‐Luna, Josefina L.; Garcés‐Ayerbe, Concepción; Torres, Pilar Rivera

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2011.05.005

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“…As a result of conducted interviews, representatives of 292 fi rms fully completed the survey questionnaire. The obtained response rate was 5.2%, which is consistent with the previous studies of PES [44][45][46]. In order to assess potential non-response bias, the early and late respondents were compared as suggested by [47].…”

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Interorganizational Cooperation, Knowledge Sharing, and Technological Eco-Innovation: the Role of Proactive Environmental Strategy – Empirical Evidence from Poland

Ryszko¹

2016

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Although previous research has suggested that interorganizational cooperation and knowledge sharing may affect technological eco-innovation or proactive environmental strategy, there is little understanding of the interconnectedness of these variables. This paper investigates the links between interorganizational cooperation, knowledge sharing, proactive environmental strategy, and technological eco-innovation. In particular, it examines the infl uence of interorganizational cooperation and knowledge sharing on technological eco-innovation and explores these relationships through proactive environmental strategy. A research model has been developed and tested on a sample of 292 fi rms operating in Poland. In order to test the proposed research model and hypotheses, structural equation modeling using partial least squares has been applied. The fi ndings indicate direct effects of interorganizational cooperation and knowledge sharing on proactive environmental strategy. However, the obtained results do not prove that interorganizational cooperation directly affects technological eco-innovation. Nevertheless, the study has shown the signifi cant mediating role of proactive environmental strategy in relationships between interorganizational cooperation, knowledge sharing, and technological eco-innovation. Since proactive environmental strategy powerfully fuels technological eco-innovation and signifi cantly mediates links between interorganizational cooperation, knowledge sharing, and technological eco-innovation, this research proves that it constitutes a unique organizational capability that may improve transformation of knowledge into better environmental and economic performance.

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Interorganizational Cooperation, Knowledge Sharing, and Technological Eco-Innovation: the Role of Proactive Environmental Strategy – Empirical Evidence from Poland

Ryszko¹

2016

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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“…However, some barriers can avoid implementing proactive environmental practices, and, as a result, obtain an efficiency-based competitive advantage, which could be achieved without those obstacles [97]. In the same way, social environments are key to the success of commercialized products, regardless of their quality so that, if these are not accepted, the company cannot benefit from the potential differentiation of its products [98].…”

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Environmental Proactivity and Firms’ Performance: Mediation Effect of Competitive Advantages in Spanish Wineries

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Barba‐Sánchez

2018

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Abstract:The main aim of this paper is to show the extent to which environmental proactivity is able to generate competitive advantages in a firm in order to improve their economic-financial performance by introducing the role of managerial perception into the analysis. This study focuses on Spanish wineries and their environmental practices and covers a total of 4598 wineries with a sample of 142 valid responses during the month of November 2015. The results can be summarized as follows. Firstly, there is positive environmental proactivity in terms of obtaining both cost-based and differentiation-based competitive advantages. Likewise, this proactivity has a positive impact on the manager's perception of performance. Secondly, obtaining differentiation-based competitive advantages has a positive impact on the manager's perception of performance although a negative impact on performance itself. There is, however, no significant evidence of the impact of cost-based competitive advantages on financial performance nor on the perception of performance itself, nor the impact of environmental proactivity on financial performance.

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“…Following this paper, the study of internal business factors that facilitate the implantation of environmental practices and objectives attracted the interest of business management literature. The academic studies involved highlight the impact of factors, such as firm size [3,4], managerial attitudes [5][6][7][8], employee motivation and qualification [4,9], high-involvement work practices [10], innovation [11] or internationalization [12].…”

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Is Strategic Proactivity a Driver of an Environmental Strategy? Effects of Innovation and Internationalization Leadership

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This study analyses strategic proactivity as a driving factor in the implementation of an advanced environmental strategy in a firm. Strategic proactivity is defined as a firm's tendency to initiate voluntary changes instead of reacting to events in the environment and according to previous literature, can be interpreted as a combination of internal factors that characterise a firm's business strategy as that of a prospector firm. In this study, we measured this through innovation, with two variables related to the firm's entire production cycle: R&D expenditure and patents. However, we also considered two more strategic proactivity indicators: innovation proactivity and internationalisation proactivity. These two proactivity variables take into account the innovative and international actions of the firms, going beyond the actions usually taken by firms in the same sector. Using panel data methodology, we obtained results that show that firms who invest in R&D and patent their innovations achieve more advanced positions in their environmental strategies. Empirical evidence also shows that firms with a greater innovation effort throughout the production cycle (product, process, organisation and marketing) than their competitors also attain more advanced positions (proactivity) in environmental matters. In other words, innovation proactivity is a driver of environmental strategy. In relation to internationalization, the results also showed that firms that operate in a larger geographical area than their competitors adapt to the most demanding environmental legislation, placing them in a position of environmental leadership in their respective sectors. The inclusion of internationalization as an indicator of strategic proactivity, the measurement of proactivity variables and the correction of firms' specific unobserved aspects are some of this paper's contributions.

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Barriers to the adoption of proactive environmental strategies

Cited by 258 publications

References 44 publications

Interorganizational Cooperation, Knowledge Sharing, and Technological Eco-Innovation: the Role of Proactive Environmental Strategy – Empirical Evidence from Poland

Interorganizational Cooperation, Knowledge Sharing, and Technological Eco-Innovation: the Role of Proactive Environmental Strategy – Empirical Evidence from Poland

Environmental Proactivity and Firms’ Performance: Mediation Effect of Competitive Advantages in Spanish Wineries

Is Strategic Proactivity a Driver of an Environmental Strategy? Effects of Innovation and Internationalization Leadership

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