Does international experience help firms to be green? A knowledge-based view of how international experience and organisational learning influence proactive environmental strategies |
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Authors: | Javier Aguilera-Caracuel Nuria Esther Hurtado-Torres Juan Alberto Aragón-Correa |
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Institution: | 1. Pablo de Olavide University, Department of Management and Marketing, School of Business, Carretera de Utrera, Km. 1, 41013 Seville, Spain;2. Department of Economics, Quantitative Methods, and Economic History, Pablo de Olavide University, Spain;3. Department of International and Spanish Economics, University of Granada, Spain;1. University of Sussex Business School, United Kingdom;2. Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, United Kingdom;3. University of Sussex Business School, United Kingdom |
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Abstract: | Early research on environmental strategy in international firms focused predominantly on direct investment as an expansion strategy for multinationals. However, we know relatively little from a strategic management perspective about exporting, which is the most prevalent form of international expansion. For this reason, we examine whether the knowledge that export firms acquire abroad influences their environmental strategies. Using a sample of export firms from the food industry, we show that the number of years spent in developing export activities does not contribute to developing a proactive environmental strategy; however, a more complex experience of environmental international diversification is positively related to a firm's proactive environmental strategy. Finally, organisational learning capability moderates the positive relationship between environmental international diversification and environmental proactivity. |
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