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Environmental Governance of Enterprises and their Economic Upshot through Corporate Reputation and Customer Satisfaction
Author(s) -
Tang Ailie K.Y.,
Lai Keehung,
Cheng T. C. E.
Publication year - 2012
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.1733
Subject(s) - reputation , corporate governance , business , customer satisfaction , resource (disambiguation) , marketing , industrial organization , accounting , finance , sociology , computer science , computer network , social science
Drawing on resource‐advantage and signalling theories, we investigate two mechanisms, namely corporate reputation and customer satisfaction, by which the environmental governance of enterprises can benefit their economic performance. Based on secondary data from the 500 largest US enterprises compiled from multiple sources, our findings contribute to the literature by establishing the link between corporate reputation and green reputation. We also establish the economic performance paths of environmental governance via corporate reputation and customer satisfaction. This study expounds on why ‘green’ matters and identifies the performance roles of two corporate strategic resources extractable from the environmental governance of enterprises. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment