 Justifying environmental sustainability in small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises: An analysis of complementary assets in the printing industryJuan Felipe Reyes‐Rodríguez and John Parm Ulhøi Business Strategy and the Environment, 2022, vol. 31, issue 1, 59-75 Abstract: Contrary to large enterprises, the environmental impact from small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) has not, to the same extent, attracted stakeholder attention and engagement. A similar lack of attention seems to have dominated management scholars who seem to have predominantly focused on the competitive implications of environmental sustainability of large enterprises. To fill up some of that gap, this study draws on the resource‐based view of the firm and the innovation‐value‐capturing‐framework to identify and characterise complementary assets utilised to materialise the competitive advantage of environmental management practices (EMP) in SMEs. Based on a multifirm case study among Danish SMEs in the printing and graphic industry, we demonstrate why and how SMEs' strategic involvement in EMP can be justified. This research complements existing insights in the field by exposing how SMEs operating under conditions of weak appropriability can justify investment in EMP thus highlighting their role in pursuing corporate sustainability. Date: 2022 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:bstrat:v:31:y:2022:i:1:p:59-75 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Business Strategy and the Environment is currently edited by Richard Welford More articles in Business Strategy and the Environment from Wiley Blackwell |
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