Toward a Spatial Perspective on Business Sustainability: The Role of Central Urban and Environmentally Sensitive Areas in Energy Corporates' Green Behaviours

3rd International Conference on Advances in Energy Resources and Environment Engineering

能源学;生态环境科学

Wang, Teng^1,2,3 ; Liu, Zongrui^1,2,3 ; Zhou, Li^1

Business School, Hohai University, Nanjing

211100, China^1

Institute of International River, Hohai University, Nanjing

211100, China^2

Jiangsu Prov. Collab. Innovation Center of World Water Valley and Water Ecological Civilization, Nanjing

211100, China^3

关键词: Business sustainability;    Environmentally sensitive areas;    Institutional forces;    Institutional logic;    Managerial implications;    Neo-institutional theories;    Stakeholder theory;    Strategic management;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/113/1/012116/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/113/1/012116

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

As one of the most concerned topics in strategic management research, the motivations of energy corporates' green behaviours are extensively explored by scholars, however, only a few noticed the role of geographic antecedents. To bridge this gap, we argue that energy firms' green behaviours will be greatly predicted by its location, more specifically, proximity to environmentally sensitive areas and central urban areas. Draw on neo-institutional theory and stakeholder theory, we argue that institutional forces mediate the links between energy corporates' green behaviours and proximities, while different proximity affects via different institutional logics. The results are discussed along with managerial implications.