Differences of Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Small and Medium Enterprises: Spain and Norway

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the factors that are related to Small and Medium Enterprises’ (SMEs’) environmental attitude. We focus on Spain and Norway—two contrasting countries in this regard. Drawing on evidence from the Flash Eurobarometer 381 Survey: SMEs, Resource Efficiency and Gree...

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Autores: Aguado, Elisabet, Holl, Adelheid
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/166926
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Palabra clave:SMEs
Environmental corporate responsibility
Drivers
Spain
Norway
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spelling Differences of Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Small and Medium Enterprises: Spain and NorwayAguado, ElisabetHoll, AdelheidSMEsEnvironmental corporate responsibilityDriversSpainNorwayddc:577ddc:330The purpose of this paper is to analyze the factors that are related to Small and Medium Enterprises’ (SMEs’) environmental attitude. We focus on Spain and Norway—two contrasting countries in this regard. Drawing on evidence from the Flash Eurobarometer 381 Survey: SMEs, Resource Efficiency and Green Markets, the results show that there is a significant difference on environmental commitment in favor of Norway. Our estimation results show that firms’ structural characteristics are strong factors influencing attitudes towards environmental responsibility, but even after controlling for such firm-specific differences, Norwegian firms still show a higher probability for a pro-environmental attitude. Moreover, our estimation results also show that the drivers for firms to go beyond environmental legislation are not the same in the two countries. Norwegian firms are more market-driven than Spanish firms in their pro-environmental attitude.This paper is an extension of the final year project of E.A. performed at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Departamento de Economía, under the supervision of A.H. Both E.A. and A.H. worked on the conceptualization of the research, the literature review, and the design of the empirical model. E.A. prepared the data. E.A. and A.H. analyzed the data and wrote the paperMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteUniversidad Carlos III de MadridHoll, Adelheid [0000-0003-4045-9468]Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]2018201820182018info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/166926reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Ingléshttps://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/6/1877Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/1669262026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Differences of Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Small and Medium Enterprises: Spain and Norway
title Differences of Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Small and Medium Enterprises: Spain and Norway
spellingShingle Differences of Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Small and Medium Enterprises: Spain and Norway
Aguado, Elisabet
SMEs
Environmental corporate responsibility
Drivers
Spain
Norway
ddc:577
ddc:330
title_short Differences of Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Small and Medium Enterprises: Spain and Norway
title_full Differences of Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Small and Medium Enterprises: Spain and Norway
title_fullStr Differences of Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Small and Medium Enterprises: Spain and Norway
title_full_unstemmed Differences of Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Small and Medium Enterprises: Spain and Norway
title_sort Differences of Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Small and Medium Enterprises: Spain and Norway
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Aguado, Elisabet
Holl, Adelheid
author Aguado, Elisabet
author_facet Aguado, Elisabet
Holl, Adelheid
author_role author
author2 Holl, Adelheid
author2_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Holl, Adelheid [0000-0003-4045-9468]
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv SMEs
Environmental corporate responsibility
Drivers
Spain
Norway
ddc:577
ddc:330
topic SMEs
Environmental corporate responsibility
Drivers
Spain
Norway
ddc:577
ddc:330
description The purpose of this paper is to analyze the factors that are related to Small and Medium Enterprises’ (SMEs’) environmental attitude. We focus on Spain and Norway—two contrasting countries in this regard. Drawing on evidence from the Flash Eurobarometer 381 Survey: SMEs, Resource Efficiency and Green Markets, the results show that there is a significant difference on environmental commitment in favor of Norway. Our estimation results show that firms’ structural characteristics are strong factors influencing attitudes towards environmental responsibility, but even after controlling for such firm-specific differences, Norwegian firms still show a higher probability for a pro-environmental attitude. Moreover, our estimation results also show that the drivers for firms to go beyond environmental legislation are not the same in the two countries. Norwegian firms are more market-driven than Spanish firms in their pro-environmental attitude.
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