Substantive or Symbolic Environmental Strategies? Effects of External and Internal Normative Stakeholder Pressures
| Autor: | David G. Hyatt, Nicholas Berente |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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business.industry
Strategy and Management 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Perspective (graphical) Environmental resource management Stakeholder 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law Public relations 01 natural sciences Environmental practices Impression management Voluntary commitment 0502 economics and business Stakeholder analysis Normative Business and International Management Institutional theory business 050203 business & management 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Business Strategy and the Environment. 26:1212-1234 |
| ISSN: | 0964-4733 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/bse.1979 |
| Popis: | Different forms of stakeholder pressures drive different environmental strategies in organizations. This article differentiates between internal and external normative stakeholder pressures to test their potentially unique effects on environmental strategies. The findings suggest that internal, normative stakeholder pressures primarily drive substantive commitments to environmental practices, reflecting an internalized, voluntary commitment to the natural environment and dedication to environmental leadership by the firm. External, normative pressures instead primarily drive symbolic commitments to environmental practices, aimed at managing the image of the organization to establish and reinforce an appearance of commitment to the natural environment. This novel perspective accounts for the institutionally plural contexts of organizations and their environments, in which internal pressures directly drive substantive environmental commitments and external pressures drive symbolic responses. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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