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Why do Emerging Market Firms Engage in Voluntary Environmental Management Practices? A Strategic Choice Perspective

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate firms’ decisions to engage in voluntary environmental management (VEM) practices within an emerging market context. Drawing on the strategic choice and the resource‐based view perspectives, we report results from a survey of VEM practices – a specific form of self‐governance – drawing on a sample of 519 Turkish firms from various industries to identify important strategic antecedents of firms’ decisions to engage in such practices. We find that as firms become more customer focused, more inclined to pursue a differentiation strategy and subject to a higher level of strategy‐oriented stakeholder focus, they tend to implement higher levels of VEM practices, with important implications for research, policy and practice for both emerging and developed markets.

Source: British Journal of Management

DOI: 10.1111/1467-8551.12351

Authors: Ekrem Tatoglu, Jedrzej George Frynas, Erkan Bayraktar, Mehmet Demirbag, Sunil Sahadev, Jonathan Doh, S. C. Lenny Koh

Institutions: Ibn Haldun University, The Open University, American University of the Middle East, University of Essex, Villanova University, University of Sheffield

Language: English

Topic: Environmental Sustainability in Business

Subfield: Marketing

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,000

OpenAlex ID: W2924064874

FWCI: 14.76

Cites: 138

Cited by: 105

Related to: 10