A Reexamination of How National Culture Influences Environmental Performance: Based on Neo-Configurational Perspective

Abstract

The inconsistencies and conflicts in the relationship between national culture and environmental performance imply the need for more fine-grained research. Our study advanced existing research by identifying the configurational effect of the six cultural dimensions that lead to high or low environmental performance with the support of the fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA). Our results demonstrate that there is no national recognized as a necessary condition for high environmental performance, but high power distance and collectivism are identified as necessary conditions for low environmental performance. And we also summarize four configurations leading to high environmental performance and one configuration leading to low environmental performance. This study contributes to the field of cultural factors and environmental performance from the perspective of method and content.