The impact of national culture on the adoption of environmental management standards

IF 1.9 4区管理学 Q3 MANAGEMENT

Cross Cultural & Strategic Management Pub Date : 2018-07-09 DOI:10.5465/AMBPP.2018.104

Raquel Orcos, S. Palomas

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Abstract

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how national cultures contribute to explain the uneven diffusion of ISO 14001 across countries. The paper focuses on two of the cultural dimensions developed by the global leadership and organizational behavior effectiveness (GLOBE) project, namely, performance orientation and institutional collectivism. Design/methodology/approach A database containing information about the diffusion of ISO 14001 in 52 countries during the period 1999–2016 was built to carry out this research. The countries considered in this study represent about 90 percent of worldwide ISO 14001 certifications. The information was gathered from publicly available data sources: the ISO Survey, published every year by the International Organization for Standardization, the world development indicators of the World Bank, the cultural dimensions of the GLOBE project and the Index of Economic Freedom provided by The Heritage Foundation. Findings This research finds that both performance orientation and institutional collectivism influence the diffusion of ISO 14001. Whereas performance orientation slows down the diffusion of ISO 14001, institutional collectivism speeds it up. Additionally, this research shows that the slowing effect of performance orientation decreases in strength over time, while the accelerating effect of institutional collectivism becomes stronger. Originality/value The study adds to the understanding of the influence of national culture on the diffusion of environmental management standards, with an emphasis on ISO 14001. A key contribution of this research is that it explores how the influence of cultural dimensions change over time as a result of the development and maturation of ISO 14001.

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民族文化对环境管理标准采用的影响

本文的目的是探讨国家文化如何有助于解释ISO 14001在各国之间的不均匀传播。本文主要关注全球领导与组织行为有效性(GLOBE)项目开发的两个文化维度，即绩效导向和制度集体主义。设计/方法/方法建立了一个数据库，其中包含1999-2016年期间ISO 14001在52个国家的传播信息。本研究中考虑的国家约占全球ISO 14001认证的90%。这些资料是从可公开获得的数据来源收集的:国际标准化组织每年出版的ISO调查、世界银行的世界发展指标、GLOBE项目的文化方面和传统基金会提供的经济自由指数。研究发现绩效导向和制度集体主义对iso14001的传播都有影响。绩效导向减缓了ISO 14001的传播，而制度集体主义则加速了ISO 14001的传播。此外，本研究还发现，绩效导向的减缓效应随着时间的推移而减弱，而制度集体主义的加速效应则越来越强。原创性/价值本研究增加了对国家文化对环境管理标准传播的影响的理解，重点是ISO 14001。本研究的一个关键贡献是，它探讨了随着ISO 14001的发展和成熟，文化维度的影响如何随着时间的推移而变化。

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Cross Cultural & Strategic Management MANAGEMENT-

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