TY - JOUR
T1 - Determinants of voluntary environmental management practices by MNE subsidiaries
AU - Tatoglu, Ekrem
AU - Bayraktar, Erkan
AU - Sunil, Sahadev
AU - Demirbag, Mehmet
AU - Glaister, Keith
N1 -
NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of World Business. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of World Business, [VOL49, ISSUE4, (DATE)] DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2013.12.007
PY - 2014/10
Y1 - 2014/10
N2 - There have been few empirical studies of the determinants of voluntary environmental management practices (VEMPs) of MNE subsidiaries operating in emerging countries. To provide insight on this issue, this study explores the antecedent factors that drive MNE subsidiaries to adopt VEMPs, using data drawn from a key emerging country – Turkey. Based largely on the arguments of institutional theory and the resource based view of the firm, a number of hypotheses are formulated in order to investigate the effects of stakeholder pressures, perceived polluting potential, customer focus and competitive intensity. Each of these factors, with the exception of competitive intensity, is found to positively influence the adoption level of VEMPs by MNE subsidiaries. Some of the study’s parent-level and subsidiary-level control variables are also found to have significant effects on the extent of VEMPs adoption by MNE subsidiaries.
AB - There have been few empirical studies of the determinants of voluntary environmental management practices (VEMPs) of MNE subsidiaries operating in emerging countries. To provide insight on this issue, this study explores the antecedent factors that drive MNE subsidiaries to adopt VEMPs, using data drawn from a key emerging country – Turkey. Based largely on the arguments of institutional theory and the resource based view of the firm, a number of hypotheses are formulated in order to investigate the effects of stakeholder pressures, perceived polluting potential, customer focus and competitive intensity. Each of these factors, with the exception of competitive intensity, is found to positively influence the adoption level of VEMPs by MNE subsidiaries. Some of the study’s parent-level and subsidiary-level control variables are also found to have significant effects on the extent of VEMPs adoption by MNE subsidiaries.
KW - environmental management practices
KW - institutional theory
KW - resource based view
KW - emerging countries
KW - Turkey
UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10909516/49
U2 - 10.1016/j.jwb.2013.12.007
DO - 10.1016/j.jwb.2013.12.007
M3 - Article
VL - 49
SP - 536
EP - 548
JO - Journal of World Business
JF - Journal of World Business
SN - 1090-9516
IS - 4
ER -