Enterprise level responses to environmental institutional pressure: Focus on legitimization strategies

Zhining Wang; Chadee Doren; Shaohan Cai; Shuang Ren

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.135148

Enterprise level responses to environmental institutional pressure: Focus on legitimization strategies

Zhining Wang, Chadee Doren, Shaohan Cai, Shuang Ren

Queen's Business School (QBS)

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This study investigates the nexus between macro level environmental institutional pressure and enterprise level green performance outcomes. We draw from legitimacy theory to develop a framework that explains how legitimization strategies help firms transform environmental institutional pressures into desired green performance outcomes. We test our model on a sample (n = 317) of technology-based manufacturing enterprises in China. Our results show that enterprise environmental commitment and green intellectual capital development play important roles in explaining the effects of environmental institutional pressure on green performance outcomes. The managerial implications of our findings and suggestions for future research in the context of mounting environmental institutional pressure on enterprises worldwide are fully discussed.

Original language	English
Article number	135148
Journal	Journal of Cleaner Production
Volume	382
Early online date	26 Nov 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.135148
Publication status	Published - 01 Jan 2023

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