Gupta Amit Kumar, Gupta Narain
Management Development Institute Gurgaon, Mehrauli Road, Sukhrali, Gurgaon, Haryana 122007 India.
Glob J Flex Syst Manag. 2021;22(3):157-178. doi: 10.1007/s40171-021-00266-w. Epub 2021 Mar 31.
Coercive pressure has forced firms to take up environmental measures in the last two decades in emerging economies. Under normative pressure, large firms with farsightedness take up the environmental practices as industry leaders. In a little mature emerging economy, such as India, where triple bottom line awareness is growing, the government facilitates the firms to operate in an environment-friendly ecosystem. We investigate how do environmental compliance and environmental practices influence the overall firm performance? The performance was measured in terms of financial, customer, internal business process, and learning and growth performance. A survey instrument was designed using well-established scales and administered to the middle to top-level corporate management executives to gather 240 data from the Indian firms. A rigorous statistical validity, diagnostics, and SEM were used to test the hypotheses. The environmental practices showed a full mediation effect on the effect of environmental compliance on performance. The examination of mediation relationships in an environmental context is limited in the reported literature. This paper is among the initial works that deal with complicated mediation relationships drawn from institutional theory propositions. The study established and argued that environmental practices' ecosystem would turn firms towards voluntary environmental compliance and eventually enjoy the long-term performance.
在过去二十年里，强制压力迫使新兴经济体中的企业采取环境措施。在规范压力下，有远见的大公司作为行业领导者采取环境实践。在印度这样一个三重底线意识不断增强的稍微成熟的新兴经济体中，政府促进企业在环境友好型生态系统中运营。我们研究环境合规和环境实践如何影响企业的整体绩效？绩效是从财务、客户、内部业务流程以及学习与成长绩效方面进行衡量的。使用成熟的量表设计了一份调查问卷，并向印度企业的中高层管理人员发放，以收集240份数据。运用严格的统计效度、诊断方法和结构方程模型来检验假设。环境实践对环境合规对绩效的影响具有完全中介效应。在已发表的文献中，对环境背景下中介关系的研究有限。本文是处理源自制度理论命题的复杂中介关系的初步研究之一。该研究表明并论证，环境实践的生态系统将促使企业转向自愿环境合规，并最终获得长期绩效。
