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Strategic intent in the management of the green environment within SMEs: an analysis of the UK screen-printing sector
Ian Worthington,Dean Patton +1 more
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In this paper, the authors investigated to what extent the responses by UK screen-printing companies to pressures to improve their environmental performance represented a deliberate attempt by senior managers to provide their organisations with a strategic competitive advantage using both a quantitative and qualitative approach.About:
This article is published in Long Range Planning.The article was published on 2005-04-01. It has received 156 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Competitive advantage & Small and medium-sized enterprises.read more
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A natural resource-based view of the firm
TL;DR: In this paper, a natural resource-based view of the firm is proposed, which is composed of three interconnected strategies: pollution prevention, product stewardship, and sustainable development, and each of these strategies are advanced for each of them regarding key resource requirements and their contributions to sustained competitive advantage.
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Proactive Corporate Environmental Strategies: Myths and Misunderstandings
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a strategic framework identifying six categories of "myths" in the analysis, selection/implementation and control of proactive environmental strategies, and present evidence presented in support of their arguments.
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Strategy development by SMEs for competitiveness: a review
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the major areas of strategy development by SMEs for improving competitiveness of SMEs in globalised market and propose a research agenda to address these issues.
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Social responsibility in new ventures: profiting from a long‐term orientation
Taiyuan Wang,Pratima Bansal +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that socially responsible companies whose strategic decisions have a long-term orientation are able to counteract their liability of newness and thereby generate net positive economic returns and tested these relationships by surveying the chief executive officers and presidents and studying the signature Web sites of 149 new ventures.
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Environmental Management in SMEs in the UK: Practices, Pressures and Perceived Benefits
TL;DR: In this paper, the extent of SME involvement in a wide range of environmental management practices and the differences between small and medium-sized businesses were explored, and they also explored SME perceptions of pressures for, and benefits of, engagement with environmental issues.
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The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits
TL;DR: When I hear businessmen speak eloquently about the social responsibilities of business in a free-enterprise system, I am reminded of the wonderful line about the Frenchman who discovered at the age of 70 that he had been speaking prose all his life as mentioned in this paper.
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Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: Triangulation in Action @
TL;DR: There is a distinct tradition in the literature on social science research methods that advocates the use of multiple methods as mentioned in this paper, which is usually described as one of convergent methodology, multimethod/multitrait (Campbell and Fiske, 1959), convergent validation or, what has been called "triangulation".
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A Natural-Resource-Based View of the Firm
TL;DR: In this paper, a natural resource-based view of the firm is proposed, which is composed of three interconnected strategies: pollution prevention, product stewardship, and sustainable development, and each of these strategies are advanced for each of them regarding key resource requirements and their contributions to sustained competitive advantage.
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