Determinants and impacts of environmental performance in SMEs

Lefebvre, Élisabeth; Lefebvre, Louis; Talbot, Stéphane

doi:10.1111/1467-9310.00297

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“…Hillary (2004) 8 EU countries SME 1-249 survey (unclear, approx. 120 SMEs) Peters & Turner (2004) UK no clear SME definition interview (62 SMEs) Pimenova & van der Vorst (2004) UK micro 1-9, SME 10-249 survey (13 micro, 9 SMEs) Rothenberg & Becker (2004) USA small <= 20, medium > 20 survey (54 small, 74 medium) interview (7 SMEs, 9 advisers) Simpson et al (2004), Taylor et al (2003) UK SME < 250 survey (63 SMEs) interview, site visit (15 SMEs) Ammenberg & Hjelm (2003) Sweden SME 0-249 interviews (25 SMEs) Kannan & Boie (2003) Germany SME < 500 case study (1 SME) Lefebvre et al (2003) Canada SME < 500 survey (368 SMEs) Naffziger et al (2003) USA SME <= 500 survey (100 SMEs) Revell (2003) Japan small < 50 interview (20 small) Vernon et al (2003) UK micro < 10 focus group (25 micro, 34 staff) Friedman & Miles (2002) UK SME < 250 interview (61 SMEs, 21 stakeholders) Gunningham & Sinclair (2002) Australia small < 50 interview (13 small, 8 stakeholders) Hansen et al (2002) 5 EU countries SMEs <= 250 interview (20 SMEs) Schaper (2002) Australia small < 20 survey (154 small) Rutherfoord et al (2000) UK, Netherlands small < 50 interview (40 small) Tilley (2000), Tilley (1999) UK small < 50 interview (60 small) Non-empirical journal articles Clement & Hansen (2003) Content analysis of documents on Nordic SME environmental funding schemes Hoevenagel & Wolters (2000) Secondary data on Dutch SME (< 100 staff) use of environmental intermediaries Shearlock et al (2000) Studied a database of environmental service firms, but not SMEs using the services Walley & Taylor (2002) Literature review which identified and defined a typology of green entrepreneurs…”

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A Review of Interventions to Encourage SMEs to Make Environmental Improvements

Parker

Redmond

Simpson

2009

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are an important part of the world economy but they are thought to be responsible for around 60% of all carbon dioxide emissions and 70% of all pollution. SMEs often have major problems with limited resources, limited knowledge, and limited technical capabilities to deal with their own negative environmental impact. SMEs exhibit widely differing characteristics and commitment where environmental issues are concerned. Yet under these conditions they are all expected to engage in environmental improvement. Interventions that encourage environmental improvement are often polarised between regulation and legislation at one extreme and voluntary environmental agreement at the other. It is clear that a holistic mixture of interventions is necessary to achieve maximum engagement and environmental improvement by all SMEs. In this paper we categorise the different levels of environmental commitment observed in SMEs and develop a selection or ‘toolkit’ of intervention strategies that might be deployed within each category of SME.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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A Review of Interventions to Encourage SMEs to Make Environmental Improvements

Parker

Redmond

Simpson

2009

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

224

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“…It would also be useful to test the model in other tourist sectors, such as catering and transportation. In addition, because this study was conducted among more high-rated and larger hotel units, further research could concentrate on low-rated and smaller firms, which are usually more flexible and less formalized in their green marketing practices (Lefebvre, Lefebvre, & Talbot, 2003).…”

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Resources and capabilities as drivers of hotel environmental marketing strategy: Implications for competitive advantage and performance

Leonidou¹,

Leonidou²,

Fotiadis³

et al. 2013

Tourism Management

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Building on the resource-based view, we develop a model of drivers and outcomes of environmentally friendly marketing strategies in the Greek hotel sector. Data collected from 152 hotels reveal that possessing sufficient physical and financial resources is instrumental in achieving effective green marketing strategies. In addition, shared vision and technology sensing/response capabilities help develop a sound environmentally friendly marketing strategy. In turn, the adoption of such a strategy is conducive to obtaining competitive advantage, which subsequently increases the potential to achieve superior market and financial performance. Furthermore, the study finds that the effect of environmental marketing strategy on competitive advantage is stronger in the case of intense competitive situations, while market dynamism has no moderating effect on this association. Several implications can be drawn from the study findings for both corporate and public policy makers and interesting directions for future research are provided.

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“…Furthermore, in a study on the determinants of SMEs' environmental performance, Lefebvre et al (2003) assume that larger SMEs would be more likely to have a higher environmental performance because they can benefit from scale economies in their effort to go green. This potential explanation is also mentioned in other studies from the CSR literature (Elsayed & Paton, 2007;Orlitzky, 2001).…”

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