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TY - JOUR
T1 - Environmental Practice Adoption in SMEs
T2 - The Effects of Firms' Proactive Orientation and Regulatory Pressure
AU - Tyler, Beverly
AU - Lahneman, Brooke
AU - Cerrato, Daniele
AU - Beukel, Karin
AU - Discua Cruz, Allan
AU - Spielmann, Nathalie
AU - Minciullo, Marco
PY - 2023/6/1
Y1 - 2023/6/1
N2 - Even with proven benefits of engaging in sustainability, and stakeholder and regulatory pressure to do so, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) seldom adopt environmental practices beyond those required. To investigate why some SMEs adopt environmental practices while others do not, we studied the proactive orientation–environmental practices link and the moderation of regulatory pressure on this relationship. Based on a survey of 286 SMEs in the wine industry in Italy, France, Denmark, and the United States, we tested our model using regression analysis. We found support for our hypotheses on the positive proactive orientation-environmental practices link and the enhancing role of regulatory pressure. We conducted further supplementary exploratory analyses to examine these relationships among different types of environmental practices. The findings from our study offer new research directions regarding the nuanced roles of proactive orientation and regulatory pressure in motivating SMEs to adopt more environmental practices.
AB - Even with proven benefits of engaging in sustainability, and stakeholder and regulatory pressure to do so, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) seldom adopt environmental practices beyond those required. To investigate why some SMEs adopt environmental practices while others do not, we studied the proactive orientation–environmental practices link and the moderation of regulatory pressure on this relationship. Based on a survey of 286 SMEs in the wine industry in Italy, France, Denmark, and the United States, we tested our model using regression analysis. We found support for our hypotheses on the positive proactive orientation-environmental practices link and the enhancing role of regulatory pressure. We conducted further supplementary exploratory analyses to examine these relationships among different types of environmental practices. The findings from our study offer new research directions regarding the nuanced roles of proactive orientation and regulatory pressure in motivating SMEs to adopt more environmental practices.
KW - Environmental practices
KW - proactive orientation
KW - regulatory pressure
KW - sustainability
KW - SMEs
U2 - 10.1080/00472778.2023.2218435
DO - 10.1080/00472778.2023.2218435
M3 - Journal article
JO - Journal of Small Business Management
JF - Journal of Small Business Management
SN - 0047-2778
ER -