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Linking Entrepreneurial Orientation to Environmental Collaboration: A Stakeholder Theory and Evidence from Multinational Companies in an Emerging Market |
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| Authors: | Abderaouf Bouguerra Mathew Hughes M Selim Cakir Ekrem Tatoglu |
| Institution: | 1. Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, Alexander Fleming Rd, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK;2. School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University, Epinal Way, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK;3. School of Management, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1SD, UK;4. College of Business Administration, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Masjid Al Aqsa Street, Mubarak Al-Abdullah, Kuwait
School of Business, Ibn Haldun University, Ulubatli Hasan Cad., No: 2 Basaksehir, Istanbul, 34494 Turkey |
| Abstract: | Revisiting stakeholder theory as a potential theory of the firm giving rise to expectations about organizing, we analyze when and under what circumstances entrepreneurially oriented firms increase their environmental collaboration with suppliers. Specifically, we investigate the association between entrepreneurial orientation and environmental collaboration with suppliers by accounting for the degree of employees’ work engagement and market environment complexity as stakeholder-oriented moderators of this relationship. We test our hypotheses using multi-level analyses on 249 managers nested in 66 multinational companies (MNCs) in Turkey. We find that entrepreneurial orientation positively impacts environmental collaboration with suppliers. A high level of work engagement (as an organizing principle favouring a stakeholder focus) and a low level of market environment complexity (as an organizing principle favouring the customer as an instrumental stakeholder) moderate this linkage. We enrich the debate on entrepreneurial orientation, strategy, and environmental sustainability by providing logic rooted in stakeholder theory of the conditions under which MNCs’ entrepreneurial orientation in emerging markets prioritizes and privileges environmental collaboration with suppliers. |
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