Proactive environmental strategy, foreign institutional pressures, and internationalization of Chinese SMEs
Proactive environmental strategy, foreign institutional pressures, and internationalization of Chinese SMEs
We explain how proactive environmental strategy affects emerging country small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) internationalization and the contingency roles of foreign institutional environment. A survey of 217 Chinese SMEs reveals the positive effects of proactive environmental strategy on inward-focused and outwardfocused internationalization activities. The results also show that foreign institutional pressures influence such effects in nonlinear ways. That is, a medium level of foreign environmental regulatory pressure maximizes the positive effects of proactive environmental strategy on inward-focused internationalization activities, while a medium level of foreign environmental customer pressure maximizes the positive effects of proactive environmental strategy on outward-focused internationalization activities.
China, Emerging Countries, Institutional Pressure, Proactive Environmental Strategy, SME Internationalization
Ko, Wai Wai (Joyce)
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Chen, Yantai
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Chen, Cheng
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Wu, Meng-Shan (Sharon)
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Liu, Gordon
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October 2021
Ko, Wai Wai (Joyce)
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Chen, Yantai
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Chen, Cheng
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Wu, Meng-Shan (Sharon)
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Liu, Gordon
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Ko, Wai Wai (Joyce), Chen, Yantai, Chen, Cheng, Wu, Meng-Shan (Sharon) and Liu, Gordon
(2021)
Proactive environmental strategy, foreign institutional pressures, and internationalization of Chinese SMEs.
Journal of World Business, 56 (6), [101247].
(doi:10.1016/j.jwb.2021.101247).
Abstract
We explain how proactive environmental strategy affects emerging country small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) internationalization and the contingency roles of foreign institutional environment. A survey of 217 Chinese SMEs reveals the positive effects of proactive environmental strategy on inward-focused and outwardfocused internationalization activities. The results also show that foreign institutional pressures influence such effects in nonlinear ways. That is, a medium level of foreign environmental regulatory pressure maximizes the positive effects of proactive environmental strategy on inward-focused internationalization activities, while a medium level of foreign environmental customer pressure maximizes the positive effects of proactive environmental strategy on outward-focused internationalization activities.
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Proactive Environmental Strategy, Foreign Institutional Pressures, and Internationalization of Chinese SMEs
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Accepted/In Press date: 12 July 2021
e-pub ahead of print date: 26 July 2021
Published date: October 2021
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This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant number: 72032008, 71772165) and National Key Project of Philosophy and Social Science from Ministry of Education, China (Grant number: 17JZD018).
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Keywords:
China, Emerging Countries, Institutional Pressure, Proactive Environmental Strategy, SME Internationalization
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Local EPrints ID: 450904
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/450904
ISSN: 1090-9516
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Meng-Shan (Sharon) Wu
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Gordon Liu
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