Investigating external and internal pressures on corporate environmental behavior in papermaking enterprises of China

He, Zhengxia; Shen, Wenxing; Li, Qin-bin; Xu, Shichun; Zhao, Bin; Long, Ruyin; Chen, Hong

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.10.115

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“…However, in the subgroup analysis, buyer pressure was larger than government pressure, which depends on the specific stakeholder's characteristics, as buyers are the primary stakeholders of the focal firm and have direct economic connections to that firm. This conclusion is consistent with that of He et al [10] and Singh et al [37]. The pressure from stakeholders is small, and the estimated coefficient between social pressure and corporate environmental strategies is only 0.089, as shown in Table 3.…”

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“…Jennings and Zandbergen extended the viewpoint of Di Maggio and Powell [25] into a study of the natural environment, and indicated that institutional pressures on an enterprise's environmental behaviors can be divided into three categories (coercive, normative, and mimetic pressure) and proposed the research topic of institutional pressure and corporate environmental strategy. Some scholars have also included pressure from the supply chain [26], market pressure [27], and internal pressure [10] to supplement existing theories of isomorphic pressure. The empirical results of these studies show that institutional pressure will have a positive impact on the environmental strategic response [28,29].…”

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“…Firstly, previous studies have failed to establish and empirically test the theoretical framework on the topic of stakeholder pressures and environmental strategies because of data availability. For instance, He et al [10] investigated the internal and external pressures on corporate environmental strategies. Maggioni and Santangelo [11] focused on pressures from local environmental non-profit organizations.…”

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Stakeholder Pressures and Corporate Environmental Strategies: A Meta-Analysis

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Stakeholder pressures and corporate environmental strategies continue to be important topics of corporate sustainability. Limited by sample size, there is a lack of general conclusions on which groups of stakeholder pressures are the main drivers of environmental strategies. Amassing a database of 58 empirical studies, the authors divided stakeholder pressures into four groups—internal, coercive, market, and social pressure—and explored the relationship between different pressures and environmental strategies by conducting a meta-analysis. The main result shows that internal pressure is the main driver of environmental strategies. Further empirical results show that stakeholder pressures could have a larger effect on corporate environmental strategies in developed countries and that non-manufacturing firms could change their environmental strategies more easily than manufacturing firms. The results provide the practical implication that a green industry transition is strongly needed in the manufacturing industry, especially for polluting industries, and that firms in polluting industries should implement environmental strategy changes in the future. This paper contributes to clarifying the relationship between stakeholder pressures and corporate environmental strategies based on a meta-analysis.

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Stakeholder Pressures and Corporate Environmental Strategies: A Meta-Analysis

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2020

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“…Given today's crises and the increasing demand for more efficient management of global resources, issues concerning sustainability and its strategic management have quickly become part of business leaders' agendas all over the world (Falle, Rauter, Engert, & Baumgartner, ). In this context, our results suggest that the driving force from management variables and employees' variables is even more important than that of external stakeholders, as shown in some previous studies (He et al, ; Tatoglu, Bayraktar, & Arda, ). Therefore, government agencies could provide training programmes for managers, instruct them on how to implement EPS, and inform them of the importance and potential benefits of implementing a sustainable strategy for economic development.…”

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An integral model for the implementation of environmental policy strategy

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2019

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This article responds to demands for a more in-depth study on how to implement an environmental policy strategy (EPS). Following the strategic choice framework, this study seeks to address this issue by testing a theoretical model of several managerial and organisational variables associated with a firm's EPS. The managerial variables examined include managers' perceptions of environmental pressures, managers' consciousness of environmental problems, and managers' perceptions of the potential benefits associated with the implementation of an EPS. The organisational variables that are investigated relate to the structure, systems, and processes of the representative organisations. Control variables include the firm's industrial sector, its country of origin, its size, and its international character. A model based on structural equations with the weighted least squares estimation method is used to test the hypotheses in a large sample of firms. The results confirm the need to consider a multidisciplinary view of the implementation of an EPS.

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“…The pulp and paper industry converts lignocellulosic materials into pulp and paper products [6][7][8]. The life cycle of forestry-pulp and paper industry products includes multiple process units such as forest tending, wood harvesting, preparation, pulping, papermaking, product distribution and use [9,10], with each value added unit consuming a lot of heat and electricity [11].…”

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Energy Flows and Carbon Footprint in the Forestry-Pulp and Paper Industry

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In the context of global climate change, energy conservation and greenhouse effect gases (GHG) reduction are major challenges to mankind. The forestry-pulp and paper industry is a typical high energy consumption and high emission industry. We conducted in-depth research on the energy flows and carbon footprint of the forestry-pulp paper industry. The results show that: (1) The main sources of energy supply include external fossil fuel coal and internal biomass fuel black liquor, which supply 30,057,300 GJ and 14,854,000 GJ respectively; in addition, the energy produced by diesel in material transportation reaches 11,624,256 GJ. (2) The main energy consumption processes include auxiliary engineering projects, material transportation, papermaking, alkali recovery, pulping and other production workshops. The percentages of energy consumption account for 26%, 18%, 15%, 10% and 6%, respectively. (3) The main sources of carbon include coal and forest biomass, reaching 770,000 tons and 1.39 million tons, respectively. (4) Carbon emissions mainly occur in fuel combustion in combined heating and power (CHP) and diesel combustion in material transportation, reaching 6.78 million tons and 790,000 tons of carbon, respectively. (5) Based on steam and electricity consumption, the indirect carbon emissions of various thermal and electric energy production units were calculated, and the key energy consumption process units and hotspot carbon flow paths were further found. This research established a theoretical and methodological basis for energy conservation and emission reduction.

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Investigating external and internal pressures on corporate environmental behavior in papermaking enterprises of China

Cited by 47 publications

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Stakeholder Pressures and Corporate Environmental Strategies: A Meta-Analysis

Stakeholder Pressures and Corporate Environmental Strategies: A Meta-Analysis

An integral model for the implementation of environmental policy strategy

Energy Flows and Carbon Footprint in the Forestry-Pulp and Paper Industry

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