Ngo Quang-Huy
FPT Greenwich Center, FPT University, Can Tho Campus, Can Tho City, Viet Nam.
Heliyon. 2023 Jun 26;9(7):e17635. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e17635. eCollection 2023 Jul.
Although SMEs contribute much to Vietnamese economic growth, they cause significant negative impacts on the environment. In environmental literature, the institutional theory is suggested to be used as a theoretical lens to examine the pressure driving an organization to improve environmental performance and indirectly through strategic response. Despite that, this theory needs more application to predict SMEs' environmentally friendly outcomes. Hence, this study draws upon institutional theory to examine that three institutional pressures, coercive, normative, and mimetic pressures have a direct impact on environmental performance as well as an indirect impact through the adoption of environmental management practices. Data were collected by surveying 253 manufacturing SMEs operating in Vietnam. Partial least-squared structural equation modeling was executed to assess data. The results suggest that three institutional pressures, coercive, mimetic, and normative pressure, indirectly improve environmental performance by adopting environmental management practices. At the same time, there is no direct effect of these pressures on environmental performance. These findings shed light on how institutional pressures affect environmental management practice adoption and environmental performance in the SME context. These findings also contribute the theoretical development of institutional theory by showing that adopting environmental management practices is a strategic response to institutional pressures to gain environmental performance. Lastly, due to mixed results on the relationship between institutional pressures and its outcomes (e.g., environmental management practice adoption, environmental performance), this study cast light on those relationships in Vietnam.
尽管中小企业对越南经济增长贡献巨大，但它们对环境造成了重大负面影响。在环境文献中，制度理论被建议用作一个理论视角，以审视驱使组织改善环境绩效并通过战略回应产生间接影响的压力。尽管如此，该理论在预测中小企业的环保成果方面仍需更多应用。因此，本研究借鉴制度理论来考察强制性、规范性和模仿性这三种制度压力对环境绩效的直接影响以及通过采用环境管理实践产生的间接影响。通过对越南253家制造业中小企业进行调查收集数据。运用偏最小二乘结构方程模型来评估数据。结果表明，强制性、模仿性和规范性这三种制度压力通过采用环境管理实践间接改善环境绩效。同时，这些压力对环境绩效没有直接影响。这些发现揭示了制度压力如何影响中小企业背景下环境管理实践的采用和环境绩效。这些发现还通过表明采用环境管理实践是对制度压力以获取环境绩效的一种战略回应，为制度理论的理论发展做出了贡献。最后，由于制度压力与其结果（如环境管理实践采用、环境绩效）之间的关系存在混合结果，本研究阐明了越南的这些关系。
