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Linking Employee Stakeholders to Environmental Performance: The Role of Proactive Environmental Strategies and Shared Vision

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Drawing on the natural-resource-based view (NRBV), we propose that employee stakeholder integration is linked to environmental performance through firms’ proactive environmental strategies, and that this link is contingent on shared vision. We tested our model with a cross-country and multi-industry sample. In support of our theory, results revealed that firms’ proactive environmental strategies translated employee stakeholder integration into environmental performance. This relationship was pronounced for high levels of shared vision. Our findings demonstrate that shared vision represents a key condition for advancing the corporate greening agenda through proactive environmental strategies. We discuss implications for the CSR and the environmental management literatures, with a particular focus on the NRBV and stakeholder integration debates.

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  1. Results in the mediator and dependent variable models were similar for analyses both with and without the dummy controls (industry, size, and country development level). According to Becker (2005, p. 286), ‘if the results do not differ, then authors and readers can rule out the controls as a potential explanation for the findings’. Therefore, we herein report the results for analyses without controlling for the dummy variables.

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This study was supported by the Alßan Programme, the European Union Programme of High Level Scholarships for Latin America, scholarship no. E06D101365BR.

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    Elisa Alt

  2. Department of Management and Marketing, University of Seville, Avda. Ramón y Cajal, 1, 41018, Seville, Spain

    Emilio Pablo Díez-de-Castro

  3. Department of Management and Organisation, University of Granada, Campus de Cartuja, s/n, 18071, Granada, Spain

    Francisco Javier Lloréns-Montes

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Alt, E., Díez-de-Castro, E.P. & Lloréns-Montes, F.J. Linking Employee Stakeholders to Environmental Performance: The Role of Proactive Environmental Strategies and Shared Vision. J Bus Ethics 128, 167–181 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2095-x

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