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Framing the evolution of the “environmental strategy” concept: Exploring a key construct for the environmental policy agenda
Author(s) -
Martínde Castro Gregorio,
AmoresSalvadó Javier,
DíezVial Isabel
Publication year - 2023
Publication title -
business strategy and the environment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.123
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1099-0836
pISSN - 0964-4733
DOI - 10.1002/bse.3190
Subject(s) - centrality , framing (construction) , construct (python library) , environmental crisis , key (lock) , sociology , political science , computer science , environmental ethics , geography , computer security , philosophy , mathematics , archaeology , combinatorics , programming language
In this paper, we develop a quantitative review of the evolution of the concept of environmental strategy. We show how it has formed the backbone of the development of firm strategy and the natural environment as a research tradition and how consensus regarding it has evolved in the academic community during the stages of its historical evolution. We us co‐word analyses to address changes in the structure of its definitional landscape and how it has evolved through the analysis of centrality of its core and periphery keywords. Furthermore, we develop, by the first time, a cluster analysis to identify the main definitional factors behind definitions along the two periods analyzed. Finally, four propositions for future development and a consensual definition of environmental strategy are proposed.