A relational view of environmental performance: What role do environmental collaboration and cross-functional alignment play?

Examining alliance management capabilities in cross-sector collaborative partnerships

“…However, central to these attempts is the assumption that AMC are universally applicable; perceived as a contextfree construct. This highlights a significant limitation as underestimating the role of context (Gölgeci et al, 2019;Leischnig et al, 2014;Schilke & Goerzen, 2010) means that the idiosyncrasy of the crosssector collaboration setting is ignored (Murphy et al, 2012). NBC is a unique relationship as it brings together two sectors that are inherently different due to their diverse ideologies, institutional logic, business models, motives, culture, and value systems (Selsky & Parker, 2005); business mind-set is typically profit-centric and competitive-driven, whereas nonprofit organizations (NPOs) are sociallydriven, participative, and co-operative (Bryson et al, 2006;Berger et al, 2004).…”

“…Despite the richness of this literature, we still lack adequate understanding of the capabilities that organizations demand when stretching their relationships beyond the boundaries of their sector (Alonso & Andrews, 2018;Gölgeci et al, 2019;Pittz & Intindola, 2015). These relational capabilities, also referred to as alliance management capabilities (AMC), are the skills necessary for organizations to establish and manage their external collaborations (Schreiner et al, 2009).…”

Influence of Social Media Usage on the Green Product Innovation of Manufacturing Firms through Environmental Collaboration

“…In the context of green product development, the environmental collaborations practised by a firm have the potential to translate the benefits of social media into green practices more generally. In this regard, a recent study shows that environmental collaboration mediates the effect of social capital and capacity building on environmental performance [24]. In addition, it has been proven that internal environmental collaboration (IEC) mediates the relationship between advanced manufacturing technologies and green innovation [25], while environmental collaboration with suppliers (ECS) improves the financial performance of firms when practising green initiatives [26].…”

Low-Carbon Initiatives of Logistics Service Providers: The Perspective of Supply Chain Integration

“…The inter-organizational learning is a resource that can instill additional capabilities in organizations [29] and develop other resources, such as environmental reputation or trusted brands [46]. In addition, there has been empirical evidence showing that collaborative green supply chain initiatives are positively associated with environmental performance [36,46]. Thus, we propose a positive relationship between LSPs' low-carbon SCI and LSPs' environmental performance.…”

“…As an extension of the resource-based view of the firm which focuses on rare, valuable, non-substitutable, and difficult-to-imitate resources within the firm [35], the relational view of inter-organizational competitive advantage argues that the critical resources of a firm may extend beyond firm boundaries [9,36]. Building on the relational view, Chen and Paulraj [10] propose a collaborative paradigm stating that the supply chain is a network of interdependent relationships developed and fostered through strategic integration.…”