The adoption of environmental strategies in large Colombian businesses

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standards and certifications. In Japan, for example, there is high demand for special agricultural products and, for example, the Japanese consumer is willing to pay high prices for better quality products such as organic, eco-friendly and fair trade products. Japan constitutes a key buyer and the Association represents the second most important supplier of this agricultural product in Japan (Roldán, 2011). The regulation to these agricultural activities in Colombia has mainly focused on the control of foreign trade, quality of products and taxes but not specifically concerning environmental issues. Nevertheless, any industrial activity in Colombia must comply with water use, air emissions and the management of residues. From interviews and sustainability reports, there is evidence of a general legal framework in which the environmental management of any industrial activity must be kept in compliance with water use, air emissions and residual management. No evidence was found of community pressure for the adoption of environmental strategies. Currently, the surrounding communities of the agricultural farms benefit from the projects developed by the Association for its associates, who also belong to the influenced communities. Table 26. Business Context – Agri-business. Esa factor Business context

Categories

Main features

Coercive

General legal framework for water use, air emissions and residual management. Neither environmental license nor hearing process requests apply to this industrial sector.

Mimetic

Main competitor’s practices associated to climate change adaptation and best practices.

Normative

Industry standards such as ISO 14001, Rainforest Alliance, UTZ and 4C certification among other sustainability protocols.

b) Business model Agri-business runs a dynamic business model focused on the improvement of the productive chain, in order to generate revenues for its associates, reduce environmental impacts by the use of cleaner technologies, adopt best productive agricultural practices and strengthen the social tissue of farmer communities.


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Table 40. Factors for the adoption of environmental strategies

44min
pages 186-221

Table 39. ESA and ESA Factors across cases

24min
pages 169-185

Table 38. Main ESA factors observed in the case studies

5min
pages 165-168

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

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pages 160-163

Table 37. Main environmental strategies observed in the case studies

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Table 35. Business model – Dairy Company

4min
pages 156-158

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

4min
pages 151-153

Table 36. Manager´s Perspective – Dairy Company

1min
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Table 33. ESA –Dairy Company

1min
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Table 34. Business Context – Dairy Company

1min
page 155

Table 32. Manager´s perspective – Cosmetic Company

1min
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Table 30. Business Context – Cosmetic Company

1min
page 146

Table 31. Business model – Cosmetic Company

4min
pages 147-149

Table 29. ESA – Cosmetic Company

1min
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Table 23. Business Model – Oil & Gas Company

6min
pages 125-128

Table 25. ESA – Agri-business

3min
pages 132-133

Table 27. Business Model – Agri-business

6min
pages 137-140

Table 26. Business Context – Agri-business

5min
pages 134-136

Table 22. Business Context – Oil & Gas Company

3min
pages 123-124

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

3min
pages 118-119

Table 21. ESA – Oil & Gas Company

5min
pages 120-122

Table 20. Manager´s Perspective – Utility Company

3min
pages 116-117

Table 19. Business Model – Utility Company

6min
pages 112-115

Table 18. Business Context – Utility Company

3min
pages 110-111

Figure 10. ESA and ESA factors at the Chemical Company

4min
pages 105-107

Table 17. ESA – Utility Company

3min
pages 108-109

Table 16. Manager´s Perspective – Chemical Company

3min
pages 103-104

Table 14. Business Context - Chemical Company

1min
page 99

Table 15. Business Model - Chemical Company

4min
pages 100-102

Table 13. ESA - Chemical Company

3min
pages 97-98

Figure 9. ESA and ESA factors at the Bank

4min
pages 94-96

Table 12. Manager´s perspective -Bank

1min
page 93

Table 10. Business Context - Bank

3min
pages 88-89

Table 8. Selected cases

4min
pages 79-81

Table 11. Business Model - Bank

4min
pages 90-92

Table 9. ESA - Bank

1min
page 87

Table 7. ESA and influencing factors

10min
pages 71-78

Figure 8. Data classification

4min
pages 83-86

Figure 6. Theoretical Model of ESA and ESA Factors

2min
pages 69-70

Table 5 Business models and environmental strategies

10min
pages 58-63

Table 4. Business context and Environmental Strategies

4min
pages 55-57

Figure 5. Collaborative networks of ESA research

8min
pages 42-46

Table 3 Co-occurrence configuration of ESA Factors

6min
pages 51-54

Table 2. Typology of environmental strategies used in this research

2min
pages 49-50

Figure 3. Co-word clusters in the literature review

1min
page 40

Table 6. Manager´s perspective and Environmental Strategies

8min
pages 64-68

Figure 2. Distribution of articles in Journals

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