DOE II Artículos
https://hdl.handle.net/10481/54419
2024-03-28T20:10:54ZThe Effects of Mandatory and Voluntary Regulatory Pressures on Firms’ Environmental Strategies: A Review and Recommendations for Future Research
https://hdl.handle.net/10481/90038
The Effects of Mandatory and Voluntary Regulatory Pressures on Firms’ Environmental Strategies: A Review and Recommendations for Future Research
Aragón Correa, Juan Alberto; Marcus, Alfred A.; Vogel, David
This paper presents an in-depth review of scholarship on how mandatory and voluntary regulatory pressures on firms affect their environmental strategies and performance. While mandatory regulation typically has a strong and positive influence on firms’ environmental performance, studies of the effects of voluntary pressures demonstrate that by themselves they are unlikely to bring about significant improvement in environmental outcomes. Accordingly, future research should focus on the complementary impacts of mandatory and voluntary programs on organizations’ environmental strategies and performance rather than analyzing their separate influence. Scholars should examine i) more than a single environmental pressure at a given time, ii) more than one response to the regulatory context, iii) the synergy between mandatory and voluntary pressures, iv) the impact of imperfect enforcement, and v) the political influence corporations exert on the mandatory and voluntary pressures that affect them. This essay argues that managers react to environmental regulations in different ways depending on how they understand the multiple pressures that they confront and their opportunities to influence the outcomes.
Rethinking Corporate Power to Tackle Grand Societal Challenges: Lessons from Political Philosophy
https://hdl.handle.net/10481/90008
Rethinking Corporate Power to Tackle Grand Societal Challenges: Lessons from Political Philosophy
Aguilera, Ruth V.; Aragón Correa, Juan Alberto; Marano, Valentina
We review three books that examine three interrelated grand challenges: climate change, abusive power in the workplace, and unfair international trading relations. The main take-away is that decision makers’ moral compass is centrally important to bring about more equitable and sustainable outcomes. Although the three books differ in structure and style, the shared wisdom that emerges from them is that we should abandon utilitarian approaches and embrace morality and self-governance at both the individual and organizational level in order to overcome the profit-making logic that dominates much of corporate action in today’s capitalist systems.
Does international experience help firms to be green? A knowledge-based view of how international experience and organisational learning influence proactive environmental strategies
https://hdl.handle.net/10481/89993
Does international experience help firms to be green? A knowledge-based view of how international experience and organisational learning influence proactive environmental strategies
Aguilera-Caracuel, Javier; Hurtado Torres, Nuria Esther; Aragón Correa, Juan Alberto
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.
Opening the black box of innovation in R&D-intensive industries: The role of internationalization and institutional development
https://hdl.handle.net/10481/89989
Opening the black box of innovation in R&D-intensive industries: The role of internationalization and institutional development
Ellimäki, Pia
This study draws from the learning by exporting literature and institutional theory in predicting innovation behaviour of firms. On the one hand, we examine how the level of internationalization of a firm affects its innovative efforts. We expect international
firms to be able to access information not available in their home countries and expect them to use such knowledge in developing their products, processes and business models. On the other hand, we explore how a firm’s home country institutional development influences its level of innovation. We expect firms from countries with more developed market intermediaries, political systems and business regulations to be more innovative than firms from less institutionally developed nations.
We test our hypotheses on a sample of 441 pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms from 34 developed, emerging and developing countries. These industries offer an interesting setting for our study as they are characterized by increasing globalization and extensive investments in research and development (R&D). Our results provide empirical support for both internationalization and home country institutional development as drivers of innovation at the firm-level. Our study has various implications for theory and practitioners. We extend current understanding by showing that the theories of learning by exporting and stronger institutions as
innovation drivers hold true for firms in the R&D-intensive, global pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. We show that by increasing their degree of internationalization, firms may be able to gain new knowledge and as a result become more innovative. In relation to government policies, we suggest that governments can enhance the level of R&D investments and innovation among
domestic firms not only through policies that promote innovation but also through those that foster international trade.
Efficiency and the Scope of Outsourced Services: A Client Firm’s Absorptive Capacity Perspective of Knowledge Intensive Services
https://hdl.handle.net/10481/89978
Efficiency and the Scope of Outsourced Services: A Client Firm’s Absorptive Capacity Perspective of Knowledge Intensive Services
Ellimäki, Pia; Aragón Correa, Juan Alberto; Hurtado Torres, Nuria Esther
Purpose Strategic literature has focused on how economies of scale in a firm offering outsourcing may generate incentives for clients to increase the outsourced services, but there has been limited research on how the clients’ features may influence the scope of services that they hire with an outsourcing provider. This study analyzes whether a client’s efficiency motivates it to increase ties with a specific provider of knowledge-intensive services in the context of business process outsourcing (BPO). We further explore whether industry conditions moderate the relationship. Design/methodology/approach A research framework is developed consisting of three main hypotheses. We combine industry data and proprietary and financial data from a longitudinal sample of 107 client firms of a multinational outsourcing service provider to test our hypotheses. Findings We find that more efficient firms hire more services from an outsourcing provider and that the munificence of the client firm’s industry positively moderates this relationship. Our results suggest that efficient clients can better keep transaction costs under control when accessing, assimilating, and exploiting the knowledge embedded in an expanded set of services provided by an outsourcing supplier. Originality/value This study extends the absorptive capacity perspective by showing that a client’s efficiency reinforces its opportunities to absorb knowledge-intensive services from a supplier when expanding the range of operations in the context of BPO.
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and publication of this article: This research has been partially funded by the research grants ECO2016-75909-P (Spanish Ministry of Science, Education, and Universities), PID2019-106725GB-I00/SRA (Spanish Research Agency/10.13039/501100011033), and A-SEJ-291-UGR18 (FEDER, Regional Government of Andalucia).