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Adoption of environmental management tools: the dynamic capabilities contributions

Essid, Moez; Berland, Nicolas (2018), Adoption of environmental management tools: the dynamic capabilities contributions, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, 9, 3, p. 229-252. 10.1108/SAMPJ-09-2017-0099

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Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Date
2018
Journal name
Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal
Volume
9
Number
3
Publisher
Emerald
Pages
229-252
Publication identifier
10.1108/SAMPJ-09-2017-0099
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Author(s)
Essid, Moez
Université de Tunis
Berland, Nicolas
Dauphine Recherches en Management [DRM]
Abstract (EN)
This paper aims to analyze the organizational capabilities involved in the adoption of environmental management tools in eight large French firms. The analysis also examines the antecedents that contributed to the emergence of those capabilities and the consequences of their involvement in terms of environmental management. To analyze the organizational capabilities deployed when environmental management tools are adopted, this paper takes an exploratory approach based on a qualitative study of eight large French firms. The findings show how organizational capabilities, dynamic and ordinary, are operationalized in the adoption of environmental management tools. This operationalization is made possible by internal and external antecedents and simple and complex routines. The findings also identify two possible configurations of organizational capabilities, each one leading to a specific form of environmental management. The first configuration leads to stand-alone environmental management systems, while the second succeeds in engendering integrated management systems. This study shows that this difference is explained by heterogeneous endowments in terms of antecedents across firms. The study provides useful information for managers about the conditions that favor and facilitate adoption of environmental management tools and the ways these conditions operate. The study illustrates the impact of society on large firms’ adoption of certain environmental management practices. It shows that external visibility – which has created strong societal pressure – is one of the external antecedents that led eight large French firms to develop specific organizational capabilities. Analyzing the antecedents, routines and capabilities involved in the adoption of environmental management tools, the study adds some original, innovative contributions to current knowledge on the conditions for adoption of such tools.
Subjects / Keywords
Environmental management tools; Dynamic capabilities view; Antecedents; Fitness
JEL
M14 - Corporate Culture; Diversity; Social Responsibility

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