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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• 作者：Javier Aguilera-Caracuel ; Nuria Esther Hurtado-Torres ; Juan Alberto Arag¨®n-Correa
• 关键词：Export firms ; Environmental international diversification ; International experience ; Organisational learning ; Proactive environmental strategy
• 刊名：International Business Review
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：October, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：21
• 期：5
• 页码：847-861
• 全文大小：474 K

文摘

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.