Competitiveness and environmental performance in Spanish small and medium enterprises: is there a direct link?

Jorge, Manuel Larrán; Madueño, Jesús Herrera; Martínez-Martínez, Domingo; Sancho, María Paula Lechuga

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.04.016

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“…Se le considera una compañía competitiva si es capaz de desarrollar oportunidades y sostenerlas, ya que proveerá mayor desempeño y utilidades sostenibles. La literatura asocia el término de competitividad a los resultados obtenidos por aquellas que son construidas por las actividades no imitables por otras empresas (Larrán, Herrera, Martínez-Martínez, & Lechuga, 2015). En la teoría se identifican tres grupos de factores separados que definen la competitividad, factores relacionados con el ambiente, factores a nivel industria y factores a nivel empresa, este último grupo de factores es el grupo que se abarcará en este estudio, en ellos se incluyen los costos, capital, tecnologías de producto, calidad de procesos, calidad de productos, mezcla de productos, distribución, innovación, mercadotecnia, recursos humanos, etc.…”

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Influencia del aprendizaje organizacional y los resultados de las Pymes.

Martínez

Serna

Montoya

2019

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Objetivo: Analizar la influencia del Aprendizaje Organizacional (AO) en dos de estas variables de resultados, la competitividad y el desempeño organizacional (DO) en las Pymes de Aguascalientes. Método: Se desarrolló un estudio cuantitativo de tipo transversal a 250 pequeñas y medianas empresas (Pymes) usando el método de ecuaciones estructurales, se aplicó un instrumento estructurado a gerentes o propietarios. Resultados: Señalan que aprendizaje organizacional tiene una influencia positiva y significativa en el desempeño organizacional y en el nivel de competitividad. Limitaciones: Este estudio presenta los resultados limitado a Pymes, para futuras investigaciones sería conveniente contrastar los resultados en empresas grandes y en economías estables. Originalidad: Este estudio aporta evidencia empírica de la relación AO con dos variables de resultados en relación a los objetivos de la empresa y en relación con la competencia, en el contexto de las Pymes. Hallazgos: Se encontró que la fuerza de la relación de AO se aprecia conde mayor impacto en la variable de competitividad.

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Influencia del aprendizaje organizacional y los resultados de las Pymes.

Martínez

Serna

Montoya

2019

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“…Recent empirical evidence suggests that environmental regulation increases patent applications (Rubashkina et al 2015). Larrán Jorge et al (2015) find that environmental performance has a positive and direct effect on competitiveness as well as an indirect impact on competitiveness through improved corporate image and marketing efforts. Linking material productivity and environmental regulation (and thus indirectly competitiveness) is not immediate obvious.…”

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The causal impact of material productivity on microeconomic competitiveness and environmental performance in the European Union

Flachenecker

Kornejew

2018

Environ Econ Policy Stud

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Interdisciplinary scholars and policymakers in the European Union (EU) claim that increasing material productivity improves the competitiveness of firms. However, the current evidence base has two main shortcomings. First, most studies fail to provide evidence beyond case studies, thus not considering dynamic effects and heterogeneity across firms, sectors, and countries. Second, they do not adequately take the endogeneity of changes in material productivity into account. In this paper, we investigate data from the Community Innovation Survey comprising over 52,000 firms across 23 sectors and 12 EU member states. Moreover, we take an instrumental variable approach to account for endogeneity. Our findings provide evidence for a positive and causal effect of material productivity improvements on microeconomic competitiveness for those firms that received targeted public financial support to realise eco-innovations. The effect tends to be limited to firms in certain materialintensive sectors and countries. We further show that such increases in material productivity reduce the firms' carbon dioxide footprint, thus achieving both economic and environmental objectives. Therefore, our findings provide the important policy insight that tailoring the availability of public financial supports to sector and country specific circumstances and those eco-innovations that increase material productivity is most promising in reconciling competitiveness and climate change mitigation objectives.

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“…Larrán Jorge et al [102] Qualitative variables related environmental activities and performance (as perception of respondents) (called "environmental performance")…”

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Exploring the Direction on the Environmental and Business Performance Relationship at the Firm Level. Lessons from a Literature Review

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Abstract:The interest of scientists and companies in understanding the business implications of environmental investment is timely; however, a dilemma remains at the firm level: is the environment a "strategic competitive factor", as in the "Porter point of view", or is it a "luxury good", as in the "Wagner point of view"? Our research contributes to this debate through a review of the papers published in scientific journals between 2000 and 2015 that discussed the direction of the relationship between the environmental and business performances of enterprises. The objectives of the research are: (a) to verify if there is an agreement in the scientific literature of the last 15 years about the "Porter-Wagner dilemma" when focusing at the firm level; (b) to underline the prevalent cause and effect directions of the relationship between environmental and business performance; and (c) to investigate the reasons for any disagreements in this topic among the scientists. The results show that the main agreement regards the positive bi-directional relationship, as a virtuous cyclic approach with mutual effects between business and environmental performance; nevertheless, more complex hypotheses emerge, such as nonlinear and/or conditional relationship, that need to be further explored. On the other hand, the Porter-Wagner dilemma remains, and the main reason for the non-agreement among scientists can be due to the several non-homogeneous variables considered in the analyses. Thereafter, as lesson for scientists, the priority is to share univocal methods to measure firms' environmental and business performances.

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Competitiveness and environmental performance in Spanish small and medium enterprises: is there a direct link?

Cited by 106 publications

References 78 publications

Influencia del aprendizaje organizacional y los resultados de las Pymes.

Influencia del aprendizaje organizacional y los resultados de las Pymes.

The causal impact of material productivity on microeconomic competitiveness and environmental performance in the European Union

Exploring the Direction on the Environmental and Business Performance Relationship at the Firm Level. Lessons from a Literature Review

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