Sustainability drivers and national culture in buyer-supplier environmental practices: an institutional perspective
Zahra Ahmadi-Gh,
Alejandro Bello-Pintado,
Thomas Bortolotti
et al.
Abstract:Purpose
This study aims to explore how sustainability drivers interact with national culture to explain the adoption of buyer–supplier environmental sustainability practices.
Design/methodology/approach
Drawing on Institutional Theory, this study proposes three sets of hypotheses focused on the role of key cultural dimensions: uncertainty avoidance, power distance and institutional collectivism. It uses a sample of 284 manufacturing plants across three industries and 14 countries to test these hypotheses, us… Show more
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