Institutional distance among country influences and environmental performance standardization in multinational enterprises Aguilera-Caracuel, Javier Fedriani, Eugenio M. Delgado Márquez, Blanca Luisa fsQCA method Multiple regression analysis Formal and informal institutional distance between countries This research has been partially funded by grants from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (project ECO2010-20483 and the FPU program) and the Andalusian Regional Government (Excellence Research Projects P08-SEJ-0457, P11-SEJ-7782, and P10- SEJ-6765). This research compares and contrasts the findings in Aguilera-Caracuel et al. (2013) with the outcomes of applying fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) —amethodological strategy that gathers quantitative and qualitative information to explain complexity at the case level and generality across cases. Using the same sample of 128 multinational enterprises (MNEs) with headquarters and subsidiaries based in the USA, Canada, France, and Spain, we identify a set of relevant configurations of causes and conditions to explain environmental performance standardization. By avoiding separate treatments for each variable,which is typical inmultiple regression analysis (MRA), we overcome prior limitations and propose a new way of understanding this phenomenon. In summary, our results significantly reinforce and complement the previous results. 2024-03-06T10:47:16Z 2024-03-06T10:47:16Z 2014 journal article Published version: Aguilera-Caracuel, J., Fedriani, E. M., & Delgado-Márquez, B. L. (2014). Institutional distance among country influences and environmental performance standardization in multinational enterprises. Journal of Business Research, 67(11), 2385-2392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2014.02.005 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/89826 10.1016/j.jbusres.2014.02.005 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Elsevier