What Prevents Firms from Advancing in their Environmental Strategy?

Josefina Murillo-Luna (), Concepción Garcés-Ayerbe () and Pilar Rivera-Torres ()

International Advances in Economic Research, 2007, vol. 13, issue 1, pages 35-46

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyze the determinants of the strategic environmental behavior of firms and, more specifically, the external and internal barriers that limit and sometimes even prevent the environmental adaptation. The analysis focuses on a sample of industrial firms that have at least three workers and that are located in Aragón, a region situated in the northeast of Spain. In order to achieve this objective, first the theoretical literature on the topic is reviewed. Subsequently, from the firms which were sampled, the existence of an underlying structure among the totality of barriers is studied. Finally, this structure is analyzed in order to determine if it has any influence on the degree of proactivity of the firm’s environmental strategy. Copyright International Atlantic Economic Society 2007

Keywords: environmental strategies; barriers; industrial firms; D21; C5; R00; M00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)

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