Being pro‐environmentally oriented SMEs: Understanding the entrepreneur's explicit and implicit power motives

Handrito, Radityo Putro; Slabbinck, Hendrik; Vanderstraeten, Johanna

doi:10.1002/bse.2741

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“…However, a positive contribution comes from Spence (2014) who affirms that not all is lost, as small entrepreneurs prefer to be proactively involved in sustainability, applying an ethic of care. This is demonstrated recently in the paper of Handrito et al (2021).…”

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The enabling role of formalized corporate networks to drive small and medium‐sized enterprises toward sustainability

2021

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The global economy's transition toward more sustainable development models is undoubtedly grounded on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). However, SMEs, individual entrepreneurs, and microenterprises have always encountered barriers to implementing social responsibility and sustainability concepts. The paper investigates the enabling role of formalized corporate networks to drive SMEs toward sustainable behaviors. A quantitative nonlinear regression approach is applied to a content analysis of a sample of network contracts coded. The content analysis is applied to analyze the declared objectives, the purpose of the contract, and sustainability areas. An ordered logistic regression is applied on variables related to the behavior of SMEs before entering in the contract and post-adhesion phases. Data demonstrates how networks of SMEs can be used as enabling factors to boost sustainability among them. Specifically, the study is based on a sample of 96 formalized network contracts (FNCs), including 1486 Italian SMEs in that sustainability-oriented networks. It offers an evidence-based perspective on how networks of companies can play a fundamental role in the development of policies aimed at bringing small companies closer to the concept of sustainability (such as eco-innovations, eco-efficiency, environmental performance, and social innovations, among others) and its practical implementation. This paper has two significant strengths. The first is that it uses as a sample a set of 1486 companies, including individual entrepreneurs and microenterprises, whose data are usually difficult to collect. The second is that it demonstrates the efficacy of a contractual form that could be scalable to different countries.

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“…Committing to prosocial goals such as green practices requires specific personal drivers, for instance joy of finding, personal fulfillment, need for achievement, the desire to help society, and the "joy of changing the world" [62]. Many researchers point out that environmental sustainability orientation is driven by an entrepreneur's explicit and implicit power motives [62,64]. This framework of analysis, based on McClelland's definition of power [65] and the three key motives for individuals (achievement, power, and affiliation), argues that implicit motives "push" individuals toward actions that they enjoy, while explicit motives "pull" them toward actions that they want [66].…”

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Adoption of Green Environmental Practices in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Entrepreneur and Business Policies Patterns in Romania

2021

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Current research shows that SMEs’ social and environmental actions are fragmented and informal, and few have formal policies and intentions. At the same time, many SMEs are engaged with environmental policies, often not knowing it. Concurrently, there is a gap between the pro-environmental attitudes of the SMEs managers, who are often seen as the main drivers for the firm’s behavior, and the policies implemented in reality in their firms. To this end, our research’s objective is to explore pro-environmental behavior, both at the individual and firm level, to identify connections between these levels and measures but also with firm’s and managers’ demographics, based on a study of Romanian SMEs. The descriptive analysis and factor analysis including tetrachoric correlation methods were used to explore these behaviors and the associations between them. The results confirm the research’s hypothesis and show that there are positive connections between the “green” behaviors at the individual level and in the SME context. Moreover, comparative analysis provided evidence of differences in the adoption of environmental practices, which were based on the firm’s demographics and manager’s characteristics. Simultaneously, five typologies of pro-environmental behavior in SMEs were identified and described, depending on the additional investment necessary and allocated resources, on the changes in organizational structure, and on the manager’s personal involvement. These findings contribute to a better understanding of the environmental improvement policies in SMEs and may help policy-makers tailor interventions and SMEs managers learn from good practices of their peers.

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“…The theory of self-interest is based on the premise that behaviours are driven by desirable outcomes or ideal rewards. Handrito further points out that the best approach is to mix the two views 7 . Keshavarz & Karami found the attitude-action gap among villagers of different age stages.…”

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The behave pro-environmentally intention of Villagers in Rural Tourist Destinations under China's Environmental Remediation Policy

Tang

Yue-lin

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Background: The study examined the villagers' intention of pro-environmental behaviour while supporting the Fallow Remediation Policy in China, research team conducted field surveys on some villagers in four famous scenic spots of Cili county where near the world natural heritage Zhangjiajie natural landscape core area, it has developed rural tourism, many local villagers rely on rural tourism to obtain livelihood income, but it is now affected by the new environmental restoration policy called Fallow Policy, some cultivated land near the tourist area needs to be repaired, which affects the tourism livelihood income of some local villagers. So the local villagers are facing the contradiction between tourism development and environmental protection; Methods: The study chose the change of local villagers' pro-environmental intention as the research content and adopted an empirically validated norm activation model (NAM) of Schwartz, then merged NAM with the Expectancy theory of Vroom. Based on 511 valid responses from the field questionnaire surveys, we aim to develop a theoretical framework for researchers to understand the influence change of villagers' pro-environmental behaviours when it comes to the sustainable development of rural tourism and tourism livelihood benefits; Results: The sample data of 511 responses including seven latent variables and 25 observational items were from villagers in the Cili county. The structural equation modeling of each index of the responses was carried out, and the findings showed that the merged model has a 76.46% better predictive accuracy of villager's pro-environmental intentions than the original NAM alone; and Conclusions: This study discovered that the motivational force of the newly discovered theory significantly influences the environmental personal norms, which comes from the joint impact of valence, instrumentality, and expectancy. It can be safely explained that villagers with a positive pro-environmental behaviour intention usually expect to have good tourism benefits and living environmental conditions under the impact of the Fallow Policy in rural tourism destination near the famous world natural heritage.

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Being pro‐environmentally oriented SMEs: Understanding the entrepreneur's explicit and implicit power motives

Cited by 18 publications

References 93 publications

The enabling role of formalized corporate networks to drive small and medium‐sized enterprises toward sustainability

The enabling role of formalized corporate networks to drive small and medium‐sized enterprises toward sustainability

Adoption of Green Environmental Practices in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Entrepreneur and Business Policies Patterns in Romania

The behave pro-environmentally intention of Villagers in Rural Tourist Destinations under China's Environmental Remediation Policy

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