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. 2024-03-15T07:18:50Z 2024-03-15T07:18:50Z 2012 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Aguilera-Caracuel, J., Hurtado-Torres, N. E., & Aragón-Correa, J. A. (2012). Does international experience help firms to be green? A knowledge-based view of how international experience and organisational learning influence proactive environmental strategies. International business review, 21(5), 847-861. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/89993 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2011.09.009 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional