The adoption of environmental strategies in large Colombian businesses

110 | Carlos Fúquene Retamoso

has focused on the delivery of information to employees, in order to both raise awareness about the importance of environmental protection and support the use of environmental indicators for process monitoring. Table 19 presents a summary of the influencing sub-factors and environmental practices found in the Business Strategy of Utility Company. Table 19. Business Model - Utility Company esa factor Business model

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main features * Lobbying capabilities in conjunction with industry associations to buffer the impact of regulation over the industry. * Technological know-how for the development of power facilities intended to achieve business efficiency. * A lliances with government to socialize and foster electric mobility strategies, which is their main business. * Stakeholder management to establish relations with communities in order to achieve social license to operate, by constructing win-win deals offering communities access to electricity

c) Manager´s perspective: The CEO is a Bachelor in Business Administration and holds a Master’s Degree in Management. Since 1997, he moved on to Colombia to work for the Utility Company, where he has held the following positions: Comptroller, Planning Manager, General Manager and CEO. Finally, CEO has more than 20 years of experience in financial investment, planning, control and management. Influencing factors observed in the manager`s perspective were associated with the individual characteristics of the CEO, which cover his personal values, perspective towards ESA and leadership style. - Personal values The CEO spoke about the restrain of actions and impulses and respect for the norms when asked about the most important characteristics of a good leader. In acknowledging his concern about self-restrain and respect for the norms, the CEO exhibits conformity and tradition as his main personal values. Traditional modes of behavior become expressions of the CEO’s focus on a body of customs taking the form of norms of behavior:

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