Inhibiting aspects of environmental proactivity in industrial firms: an empirical analysis
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This paper analyzes the difficulties that firms find when adopting an advanced or proactive attitude towards the problems of environmental degradation. The results obtained from a sample of 240 industrial firms indicate that the principal inhibiting barriers of the environmental proactivity are both external and internal to the firm. Nevertheless, the influence of these two types of barriers on the environmental strategy is different. More specifically, the internal barriers are an obstacle which must be overcome in order to be able to progress towards more proactive strategic environmental behaviors. Nevertheless, the external barriers, although managers consider them as difficulties for the adoption of proactive environmental strategies, do not truly prevent this progress.
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Environmental strategy, inhibiting aspects
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