Factors Promoting Environmental Responsibility in European SMEs: The Effect on Performance
Abstract: There is increasing social and political awareness of the importance of developing environmental responsibility at a corporate level. When focusing on issues of responsibility, large companies are frequently perceived to be more responsible for driving climate change and resource depletion. However, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute significantly to the use of resources such as material and energy and produce approximately 64% of the pollution in Europe. Drawing on evidence from “The Eurobarometer 381 Survey on SMEs, Resource Efficiency and Green Markets”, we analyze the environmental responsibility of European SMEs, studying their compliance with environmental legislation and how several factors drive environmental orientation among SMEs. Our sample consists of 3647 SMEs operating in 38 countries. Only around a fifth of the firms go beyond environmental regulations, showing the highest levels of environmental responsibility. We conduct OLS regressions to analyze the f
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Sustainability ; 8 (2016) 9 ; 14
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Management
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Mannheim
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2016
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Sáez-Martínez, Francisco J.
Díaz-García, Cristina
González-Moreno, Ángela
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10.3390/su8090898
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019052811461539915915
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Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Beteiligte
- Sáez-Martínez, Francisco J.
- Díaz-García, Cristina
- González-Moreno, Ángela
Entstanden
- 2016
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