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Differentiated Customer Pressures and Environmental Policies in China
Author(s) -
Wu Jie
Publication year - 2015
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.1812
Subject(s) - multinational corporation , china , business , resource (disambiguation) , industrial organization , perspective (graphical) , product (mathematics) , resource based view , stakeholder , environmental impact assessment , institutional theory , marketing , economics , competitive advantage , management , ecology , computer network , geometry , mathematics , finance , artificial intelligence , political science , computer science , law , biology
Drawing on the resource dependence theory, the stakeholder perspective and environmental management capabilities, this study examined the relationship between the heterogeneity of customer pressures and the varying levels of environmental policies in China. Data on 1215 Chinese manufacturing firms were analyzed to demonstrate that environmental pressures emanating from different types of customer have different impacts on firm environmental conduct and that the pressures from multinational consumers have a stronger effect on local Chinese suppliers’ propensity to reduce product environmental risks than those from local consumers. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.