Evolving sustainably: A longitudinal study of corporate sustainable development

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Bansal, P
• 署名单位: Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/smj.441
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 197-218
• 关键词: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; INSTITUTIONAL THEORY; resource-based view

摘要

This study operationalizes corporate sustainable development and examines its organizational determinants. Data for this project pertain to Canadian firms in the oil and gas, mining, and forestry industries from 1986 to 1995. I find that both resource-based and institutional factors influence corporate sustainable development. By exploring time-related effects, I also find that media pressures were important in early periods and resource-based opportunities endured over time. This finding challenges the assumption that firms first adopt innovations in response to technical rewards which are later institutionalized. These counter-intuitive results may be attributable to the unique characteristics of the dependent variable, corporate sustainable development. They raise important questions and directions for future research. Copyright (C) 2004 John Wiley Sons, Ltd.