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A Global Perspective on Green Sustainability, Corporate Reputation, and Technological Strength for Firm Performance Across Countries
Journal of Distribution Science (2012)
  • Jooh Lee, Rowan University
Abstract
This study is an attempt to explore the nature and characteristics of strategic impact of green strategy by environmental capital, corporate reputation, and technology strengths on the firm’s performance across countries. The main question addressed in this paper relates to how corporate sustainability, corporate reputation, technology strength, and capabilities influence the firm’s economic performance with respect to diverse dimensions of performance measures including sustained growth through the leading firms across countries in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia-Pacific countries. Particularly, this study attempts to empirically explore the directions and magnitudes of the operational links between new emerging strategic core competencies (e.g., sustainability green strategy by environmental focus for more sustainable path, corporate reputation by corporate social responsibility and image enhancement, and technology strengths to develop a new product and market) and the firm’s economic performance with respect to diverse dimensions of performance such as accounting (ROE and EOA) - and market-based performance (Market value and Tobin’s q). Considering all possible limitations that might exist with regard to selected samples and methods, this study demonstrates that environmental sustainability, corporate reputation, technological capabilities and competencies through R&D intensity and patent are most likely to be significantly associated with most market-based performance measures, but the strategic significance of other variables such as capital intensity, leverage, and administrative cost efficiency on performance tends to be different depending on which performance measure is used across different countries with diverse economic and business contexts.
Publication Date
August 1, 2012
DOI
10.15722/jds.10.8.201208.15
Publisher Statement
Journal of Distribution Science is published by Korea Open Access Journals and distributed with a Creative Commons license.
Citation Information
Jooh Lee. "A Global Perspective on Green Sustainability, Corporate Reputation, and Technological Strength for Firm Performance Across Countries" Journal of Distribution Science Vol. 10 Iss. 8 (2012) p. 15 - 23
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jooh-lee/13/
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