Entrepreneurial orientation and green management in an emerging economy: The moderating effects of social legitimacy and ownership type

Financing Constraints and Environmental Performance: Management in Resource Constraint Settings

“…With the growing recognition of environmental sustainability and protection as the emerging trends, greenmanagement has been widely concerned by enterprises and governments and hasbecome one of the crucial strategies of companies in developed and emergingmarkets since global sustainability and the awareness of environmentalprotection became trends. [9,10]. Green management, which is defined as "through continuous learning and development, and by accepting environmental goals and strategies that are fully integrated with organizational goals and strategies, apply innovation to achieve sustainability, waste reduction, social responsibility and competitive advantage [11]," is becoming more closely linked to a company's financial [12] and environmental performance [13].…”

How top managers’ sport experience exploits environmental proactivity in state-owned enterprises.

“…We focus on the interaction between sport experience and state ownership, and how this interaction influences corporate environmental proactivity. Existing literature often stands on the pro-side of state ownership, interpreting and testing from the resource-based view, arguing state ownership provides abundant resources and political protection which facilitates environmental proactivity (Gao & Hafsi, 2015;Liao et al, 2019;Li et al, 2021;Wang & Jiang, 2021). We supplement supporting evidence to the pro-side, but we also remind of a marginal while pessimistic fact that state ownership crowds out how pro-environment traits construct environmental practices.…”

“…State ownership is prevalent in China, and is believed to be more interventionist in developing countries such as China than in developed countries (Gao & Hafsi, 2015). State ownership exchanges controlling power for political privileges (Wang & Jiang, 2021), providing SOEs with more resources, institutional protection, and competing advantages (Liao et al, 2019;Li et al, 2021). Both political control and privileges lead SOEs toward more environmental proactivity (Wang & Jiang, 2021).…”

“…On the one hand, according to the institutional theory and stakeholder theory (Pan et al, 2019;Jiang et al, 2020;Liu et al, 2020;Li et al, 2021), political control of state ownership pushes SOEs to be environmentally proactive. The government control inherent in state ownership pushes SOEs to achieve public goals (Liu et al, 2020).…”

“…China, the biggest emerging economy, is facing a striking environmental challenge (Jiang et al, 2020;Wang & Jiang, 2021), despite tremendous effort toward fighting the same (Sun et al, 2019). Pro-environment enterprises have been appealing for a long time Ren et al, 2022), which is evidently positive for the society, and is also believed to bring enterprises both better performance and legitimacy (De Mendonca & Zhou, 2019;Pan et al, 2019;Li et al, 2021). Constructing corporate environmental proactivity has become an important issue, and efforts have been made to search for the drivers of environmental proactivity, including factors about society, economy, institutions, corporations, and individuals (Hörisch et al, 2017;Alzubaidi et al, 2021;Wang & Jiang, 2021).…”