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The impact of organizational pressures on environmental performance of firms

  • Ramakrishnan Ramanathan
    ,
  • Boonchan Poomkaew
    ,
  • Prithwiraj Nath
Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Abstract

The role of various organizational pressures in influencing performance of firms has been an interesting research topic in a variety of fields and has received the attention of researchers working in the field of environmental strategy. Although there are previous studies that have looked at the influence of various pressures in influencing firms’ environmental strategies, our study provides a more holistic analysis considering a variety of such pressures in a single framework. We discuss a research study to analyze how pressures from internal and external stakeholders of a firm, economic pressures, environmental regulations, and pressures of environmental compliance have affected environmental performance of firms using data collected from manufacturing firms in the United Kingdom. We have found that internal stakeholders provide the greatest impact in shaping environmental performance of firms, closely followed by economic pressures, environmental regulations, and external stakeholders in that order. Fears of penalties due to environmental compliance have the least impact, although this pressure also has a positive and significant impact on environmental performance.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 169-182 (14 pages)

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Business Ethics (Volume 23, Issue 2)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 04/03/2014

Publication status

Published - 04/03/2014

ISSN

0962-8770

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/332974
  • Scopus: 84898642230

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