The adoption of environmental strategies in large Colombian businesses

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close relation with stakeholders in order to achieve a reputation as a responsible company. His concern about behavioral norms has supported both the culture of the firm over time and the abidance by the parent company’s guidelines towards the development of social programs. Specifically, the CEO has supported the participation of employees in voluntary programs (i.e. environmental education) focusing in the surrounding communities that are located nearby the facilities, which has fostered the implementation of additional social plans in conjunction with the municipality government. Evidence shows that the leadership style of the CEO corresponds to a transactional constructive style in which a manager uses a clear set of rules to facilitate the exchange process between the company and the shareholders and interested parties. His leadership style has focused on the management of relations with regulators and investments in communities to introduce new products achieving win-win deals. For example, the CEO fully supported some initiatives that are considered sympathetic toward stakeholders’ management, through their participation in government’s projects that provide water solutions for communities where the Company can allocate its products. From the data collected, it could be inferred that his leadership style has played an essential role in the adoption of compliance, resource-efficiency and exchange reward strategies. First-mover companies Market position

The adoption of environmental strategies in large Colombian businesses

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Table 40. Factors for the adoption of environmental strategies

Table 39. ESA and ESA Factors across cases

Table 38. Main ESA factors observed in the case studies

Figure 15. ESA and the ESA factors at the Dairy Company

Table 37. Main environmental strategies observed in the case studies

Table 35. Business model – Dairy Company

Figure 14. ESA and the ESA factors at the Cosmetic Company

Table 36. Manager´s Perspective – Dairy Company

Table 33. ESA –Dairy Company

Table 34. Business Context – Dairy Company

Table 32. Manager´s perspective – Cosmetic Company

Table 30. Business Context – Cosmetic Company

Table 31. Business model – Cosmetic Company

Table 29. ESA – Cosmetic Company

Table 23. Business Model – Oil & Gas Company

Table 25. ESA – Agri-business

Table 27. Business Model – Agri-business

Table 26. Business Context – Agri-business

Table 22. Business Context – Oil & Gas Company

Figure 11. ESA and the ESA factors at the Utility Company

Table 21. ESA – Oil & Gas Company

Table 20. Manager´s Perspective – Utility Company

Table 19. Business Model – Utility Company

Table 18. Business Context – Utility Company

Figure 10. ESA and ESA factors at the Chemical Company

Table 17. ESA – Utility Company

Table 16. Manager´s Perspective – Chemical Company

Table 14. Business Context - Chemical Company

Table 15. Business Model - Chemical Company

Table 13. ESA - Chemical Company

Figure 9. ESA and ESA factors at the Bank

Table 12. Manager´s perspective -Bank

Table 10. Business Context - Bank

Table 8. Selected cases

Table 11. Business Model - Bank

Table 9. ESA - Bank

Table 7. ESA and influencing factors

Figure 8. Data classification

Figure 6. Theoretical Model of ESA and ESA Factors

Table 5 Business models and environmental strategies

Table 4. Business context and Environmental Strategies

Figure 5. Collaborative networks of ESA research

Table 3 Co-occurrence configuration of ESA Factors

Table 2. Typology of environmental strategies used in this research

Figure 3. Co-word clusters in the literature review

Table 6. Manager´s perspective and Environmental Strategies

Figure 2. Distribution of articles in Journals