61959 20230216092006.0 doi 10.3390/su9081327 sideral 100810 ART-2017-100810 eng Valero-Gil, J. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-6954-3837 How is environmental proactivity accomplished? Drivers and barriers in firms' pro-environmental change process 2017 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted The contaminating effects of economic activity and the scarcity of natural resources has led firms to a situation in which corporate strategy has been compromised by environmental issues. The objective of this paper is to analyse some of the factors determining the pro-environmental change process by considering the drivers encouraging firms to progress in environmental protection and the barriers that curb this progress. Using a structural equation model implemented on a sample of 303 firms, our results confirm a direct and positive effect of stakeholder pressure and of the expectations of obtaining competitive advantages from the pro-environmental change process. The results also confirmed the indirect effect of stakeholder pressure on pro-environmental change through managers'' expectations of obtaining competitive advantages, which play a mediating role in the firm''s response. Although managers interpret the barriers we have studied as obstacles to adopting environmental protection measures, they do not prevent any firm from reaching advanced levels of pro-environmental change. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/ECO2013-45599-R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/ECO2013-48496-C4-3-R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/ECO2016-77843-P info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 2.075 2017 GREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 3 / 6 = 0.5 2017 Q2 T2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 51 / 108 = 0.472 2017 Q2 T2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 120 / 241 = 0.498 2017 Q2 T2 GREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 21 / 33 = 0.636 2017 Q3 T2 0.537 2017 Geography, Planning and Development 2017 Q2 Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 2017 Q2 Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 2017 Q3 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Rivera-Torres, P. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-9319-5895 Garcés-Ayerbe, C. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-4045-5918 4012 650 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Direcc.Organiza.Empresas Área Organización de Empresas 4011 095 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Direc.Mark.Inves.Mercad. Área Comerci.Investig.Mercados 9, 8 (2017), [15 pp] Sustainability (Basel) Sustainability (Switzerland) 2071-1050 621025 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/61959/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 105941 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/61959/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:61959 articulos driver 2023-02-16-09:07:35 ARTICLE