Performance effects of complementarity between environmental management systems and environmental technologies

Ozusaglam, Serdal; Kesidou, Effie; Wong, Chee Yew

doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2017.12.026

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“…The joint adoption of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 can be explained theoretically by drawing on insights from the resource-based theory of the firm (Barney, 1991) and the literature on asset complementarity (Ozusaglam, Kesidou, & Wong, 2018;Teece, 1986). When firms implement quality management systems (e.g.…”

Section: Resource Complementarity Perspectives On Eco-certificationmentioning

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Driving sectoral sustainability via the diffusion of organizational eco‐innovations

2019

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Using insights from institutional literature, the resource‐based theory of the firm, and internationalization, we explain variations in the diffusion of organizational eco‐innovations. Studies have previously reported that the drivers of eco‐innovation are regulatory pressures, technology push, market pull, and firm factors. But relatively little attention has been paid to nontechnological forms of eco‐innovation, such as environmental management systems (EMS). Consequently, how exactly to encourage EMS adoption across sectors is still unclear. We attempt to address this question by combining sectoral panel data (2009–2014) from a number of sources in Spain. The econometric analysis reveals that environmental policy is driving the adoption of ISO 14001 largely due to differences across sectors in energy and pollution intensity. In addition, the adoption of ISO 9001 increases the use of ISO 14001 in industry because of complementarities between the two systems. Third, in highly internationalized sectors, firms adopt a greater amount of ISO 14001.

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Driving sectoral sustainability via the diffusion of organizational eco‐innovations

2019

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“…Furthermore, previous theoretical [20] and empirical [3,22,33] studies have also examined the need for proactiveness in environmental management and strategy formulation in order to improve and sustain the competitive advantages gained from the implementation of IT for environmental aims. However, there is limited empirical evidence of the specific moderating effect that proactive environmental management and a prospector strategy have on the relationship between green technology and environmental performance.…”

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Beyond Gathering the ‘Low-Hanging Fruit’ of Green Technology for Improved Environmental Performance: an Empirical Examination of the Moderating Effects of Proactive Environmental Management and Business Strategies

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2019

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This study draws on the natural resource-based view and the dynamic capabilities theory to analyse the effects of green technology, proactive environmental management and business strategy on environmental performance. This paper offers a novel analysis of the direct effect of the integrated use of green technology on environmental performance, considering a non-linear relationship between them, and how this impact can be leveraged through a formal proactive environmental planning, coordination and control system, and a defined business strategy. In order to test the research hypotheses, multiple linear regression was used on a sample of 446 Spanish tourism firms. The results confirm a non-linear relationship between green technology and environmental performance. They also indicate the importance of defining a clear, proactive environmental management and prospector strategy to achieve more efficient products/services, processes and technologies, with minimal environmental impact. This research also provides some insights into the moderating effect exerted by proactive environmental management in terms of strengthening the relationship between green technology and environmental performance. In addition, the analysis confirms that whereas defender strategies reduce the impact of green technology on environmental performance, analyser and prospector strategies enhance its influence. These results can be used to offer a series of guidelines for both private and public agents in the tourism sector.

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“…The supermodularity model usually works for binary choice variables (Ozusaglam et al, ). Each innovation practice can be performed by the firm ( P i = 1) or not ( P i = 0) and i ɛ {1,2,3}.…”

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“…The complementarity in performance occurs when the benefit derived from the combination of two or more complementary practice choice exceeds the sum of the economic benefits produced by each practice choice individually (Ozusaglam, Kesidou, & Wong, ). That is, we expect that the adoption of environmental practices to interact with organizational and human resource practices to contribute an increase in productivity (Delmas & Pekovic, ).…”

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Do firms with different levels of environmental regulatory pressure behave differently regarding complementarity among innovation practices?

2020

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This study explores the complementary effects among environmental innovation, organizational innovation, and training for innovation and their effect on firm productivity, within a supermodularity framework. Furthermore, it attempts to understand whether different innovation practices are complements or substitutes for firm profitability according to the industrial environmental regulation context by distinguishing between clean and dirty industries. Using a Spanish technological innovation panel survey over the period 2008-2015, our findings indicate that the interrelationship between different innovation practices is complementary rather than substitutive, and the pattern of complementarity among innovation practices differs according to the environmental regulation under which an industry operates. Engaging in a broad range of innovation practices such as environmental and organizational innovations, clean industry can strengthen productivity. For dirty industries, our results indicate a greater affinity between training activities and environmental innovation than between environmental innovation and organizational innovation on firm productivity achievement. Taken all together, these results provide managers with considerable insights in terms of how to adapt the various combinatorial practices to the industrial environment in which they are embedded, taking market and regulatory pressure into account. K E Y W O R D S complementarities, environmental innovation, organizational innovation, training, firm productivity, environmental regulatory pressure

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Performance effects of complementarity between environmental management systems and environmental technologies

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Cited by 45 publications

References 92 publications

Driving sectoral sustainability via the diffusion of organizational eco‐innovations

Driving sectoral sustainability via the diffusion of organizational eco‐innovations

Beyond Gathering the ‘Low-Hanging Fruit’ of Green Technology for Improved Environmental Performance: an Empirical Examination of the Moderating Effects of Proactive Environmental Management and Business Strategies

Do firms with different levels of environmental regulatory pressure behave differently regarding complementarity among innovation practices?

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