The role of firm-internal corporate environmental standards for organizational performance

Christian Schwens and Marcus Wagner
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Christian Schwens: Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf

Journal of Business Economics, 2019, vol. 89, issue 7, No 4, 823-843

Abstract: Abstract Firms’ environmental approaches frequently encompass strategies for pollution prevention and product stewardship. We apply resource-based theorizing to determine how these two strategies affect the likelihood that a firm will adopt firm-internal environmental-management standards and how such standards relate to organizational performance. We find that pollution prevention improves firms’ competitiveness by enabling the implementation of firm-internal standards that subsequently have positive effects on profitability.

Keywords: Pollution prevention; Product stewardship; Resource-based view; Econometric analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L6 M16 Q59 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s11573-018-0925-5

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