Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/13632
Title: Corporate environmental performance: Revisiting the role of organizational slack
Authors: Symeou, Pavlos C. 
Zyglidopoulos, Stelios C. 
Gardberg, Naomi A. 
Major Field of Science: Social Sciences
Field Category: Economics and Business
Keywords: Absorbed slack;Environmental performance;Organizational slack;Unabsorbed slack
Issue Date: Mar-2019
Source: Journal of Business Research, 2019, vol. 96, pp. 169-182
Volume: 96
Start page: 169
End page: 182
Journal: Journal of Business Research 
Abstract: To date, there has been little agreement on the role of organizational slack in firms' Environmental Performance (EP). Drawing on the Behavioral Theory of the Firm (BTOF), we advance this line of inquiry by conceptualizing the distinct effects that absorbed slack and unabsorbed slack have on EP as well as how industry discretion, firm-specific regulatory pressures, and EP-aspiration levels moderate these effects. We test our hypotheses with a unique panel of 753 US public firms for the period 1991–2008. As hypothesized, our findings indicate that unabsorbed slack has a positive effect on EP, while absorbed slack has a negative one. Industry discretion, firm-specific regulatory pressures, and EP aspiration levels moderate these relationships in distinct ways. We discuss the implications of our research on managerial and policy decision-making.
ISSN: 01482963
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.11.019
Rights: © Elsevier
Type: Article
Affiliation : Kedge Business School 
Baruch College 
Cyprus University of Technology 
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed
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