Ambidexterity, Alliances and Environmental Management System Adoption in Spanish Hotels

Boronat-Navarro, Montserrat; García-Joerger, Alexandra

doi:10.3390/su11205815

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“…In other words, exploitative learning is to do with "the acquisition of new behavioral capacities framed within existing insights" [191]. On the other hand, exploratory learning is associated with "new searches and experimentation" and "risk-taking and variance-increasing activities in learning, experimentation, flexibility, discovering, and distant search" [195].…”

Section: Inter-organizational Learning Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are also general outcomes of partnerships associated with the creation of associational value, transferred resource value and synergistic value [9], as well as interaction value, which is considered as learning in this article. Thanks to the development of new capabilities and shifts in value frames, as well as the creation of associational, transferred resource and synergistic value, partnerships would help firms improve their environmental performance [136,146,147,189,195,198], social performance [133,167], sustainability performance [200,204], innovation performance [205] and may even improve economic performance [121].…”

Section: Firm-level Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Literature Review of Inter-Organizational Sustainability Learning

Dzhengiz

2020

Sustainability

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Sustainable development goals (SDGs) have become increasingly important for today’s firms as they build sustainability strategies that integrate SDGs into their core activities. Addressing these goals collaboratively, in line with SDG 17—partnerships for the goals, has gained momentum, hence the growing literature on sustainability-oriented partnerships. However, addressing SDGs through partnerships is not straightforward. For firms, contributing to SDGs through alliances and partnerships requires building environmental capabilities and embracing new value frames; in other words, going through the complex process of inter-organizational learning. This paper reviews the literature on sustainability-oriented partnerships with a focus on the inter-organizational learning process. As a result of the review, a model of inter-organizational sustainability learning is presented. This model captures the different levels and types of the inter-organizational learning process; partner and partnership characteristics that impact learning; the environmental conditions that set the conditions for learning to take place; the catalyst and inhibitors of learning; and finally outcomes of learning. This model expands and re-organizes the existing scholarly conversation about inter-organizational learning in the context of sustainability-oriented alliances and partnerships and offers a learning-based understanding of sustainability partnerships to practitioners. Based on the review, the paper proposes ideas for future research and contributes to the development of a future research agenda in the area of sustainability-oriented alliances and partnerships.

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Section: Inter-organizational Learning Processmentioning

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Section: Firm-level Outcomesmentioning

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A Literature Review of Inter-Organizational Sustainability Learning

Dzhengiz

2020

Sustainability

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“…3 relates to the argumentative dimension of Standards (see Annex -Table A7). The topics most treated are related to the characteristics of the two international environmental management standards and their diffusion [39]- [44]. Both certifications have been the subject of studies on their effectiveness in terms of environmental performance, in which a better result was found compared to companies that do not adopt an environmental management system [45].…”

Section: Standardsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trends in Environmental Management Systems Research. A Content Analysis

Fagioli

Paolotti

Boggia

2022

Environmental and Climate Technologies

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Environmental Management Systems (EMS) represent a solid opportunity for companies that voluntarily undertake a path towards the adoption of environmental protection policies. Many studies investigated the link between EMS and improvement of environmental performance, demonstrating how the adoption of an international standard as ISO 14000 or EMAS guarantees the company an improvement in its performance and an increase in transparency towards stakeholders. However, scientific research in this field reflects the strong variability due to the breadth and diversity of sectors in which the two international standards can be adopted. The aim of this work is to analyse, through textual statistics and text mining methods, the trends that characterize scientific production, highlighting most debated topics useful for developing new research perspectives in this research field.

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“…In this regard, alliance learning capability helps firms to process privileged information and ideas to innovate (Padula, 2008), from specialized or different knowledge and skills in fields in which the organization itself has no previous experience (Boronat-Navarro and García-Joerger, 2019). Afterward on, alliance learning capability eases the process of interacting with others that have different knowledge bases (Gilsing and Nooteboom, 2006; Kogut, 2000).…”

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Co-exploitation (or co-exploration) vs go it alone? The role of alliance learning capability on firm performance

Solís-Molina

Hernández‐Espallardo

Orejuela³

2021

JBIM

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Purpose This study aims to analyze the moderating role of a firm’s alliance learning capability. The aim is to investigate the comparative performance of developing exploitation (or exploration) activities in collaboration with others vs adopting a go-it-alone posture. Design/methodology/approach The authors compare high levels of co-exploitation (or co-exploration) that represent the collaboration stance vs low levels of co-exploitation (or co-exploration) that characterize the go-it-alone posture. Data were collected using a sample of 262 manufacturing firms that developed exploitation-based innovations and 239 exploration-based innovations. Regression models were used to test the hypotheses. Findings Empirical results suggest that the best performance is reached by firms that exploit or explore collaborating with others at high levels of alliance learning capability. In contrast, firms perform better by going alone in exploitation activities at low levels of alliance learning capability. Practical implications Firms may complement internal efforts of exploitation or exploration by co-developing knowledge with other organizations for higher performance. However, collaborating with others is not free of drawbacks, and, under certain circumstances, the go-it-alone strategy is more convenient. Originality/value This paper provides evidence of the role of a firm’s alliance learning capability in determining the differential performance of carrying on exploitation or exploration activities in collaboration with others vs adopting a go-it-alone stance. Thus, it offers an alternative perspective in the literature on organizational learning and innovation management, in contrast with the exploitation and exploration balanced perspective of ambidexterity, by explaining how alliance learning capability fosters firm performance combining exploitation or exploration at organizational and inter-organizational levels.

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Ambidexterity, Alliances and Environmental Management System Adoption in Spanish Hotels

Cited by 10 publications

References 114 publications

A Literature Review of Inter-Organizational Sustainability Learning

A Literature Review of Inter-Organizational Sustainability Learning

Trends in Environmental Management Systems Research. A Content Analysis

Co-exploitation (or co-exploration) vs go it alone? The role of alliance learning capability on firm performance

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