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Article Dans Une Revue Business Horizons Année : 2017

Taking environmental partnerships seriously

Guillaume Pain
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Raymond Paquin
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Increasingly, firms are integrating environmental sustainability into their business strategies. Yet, sustainability is a complex topic and many firms need to form environmental partnerships to access additional resources—in the form of investments, technologies, expertise, public image, and/or political influence—to develop competitive advantage. Environmental partnership decisions are difficult, however, because they often need to reconcile multifaceted sustainability issues with multi-level, and potentially divergent, strategic goals. To meet their intended objectives, companies should carefully consider the type of environmental partnerships and partners that can best meet their needs. Based on a review of the literature, interviews with executives responsible for environmental partnerships, and publicly available data, we find firms engage in three main types of environmental partnerships: innovation-seeking, legitimacy-building, and policy-influencing. Each type of partnership benefits from different types of resources and partner choices. Herein, we describe the advantages of each type of environmental partnership and partners that may best support them. Given that many firms develop environmental partnership portfolios, managing multiple environmental partnerships simultaneously, we also discuss the implications of our research for environmental partnership portfolios.
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hal-02311922 , version 1 (10-12-2019)

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Ulrich Wassmer, Guillaume Pain, Raymond Paquin. Taking environmental partnerships seriously. Business Horizons, 2017, 60 (1), 135-142 p. ⟨hal-02311922⟩

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