碩士 / 國立東華大學 / 企業管理學系 / 106 / The Maritime industry plays an important role on international trade and environmental protection. In recent years, countries around the world have gradually pay attention to ‘green shipping’. However, marine enterprises in Taiwan have devoted different amount of effort on environmental protection. Up to date, most of the research on environmental strategies has focused on investigating the idiosyncratic effect of distinctive factors on environmental strategies. Limited research has explored how the combinations of multiple factors, such as configurations of various resources and top management team characteristics, influence environmental strategies. Based on resource-based theory and upper echelons theory, this study seeks to explore configurations of firm resources and top management team composition for proactiveness of environmental strategy.
The case firms of this study are TSE-listed or OTC-listed marine enterprises in Taiwan. This study was conducted in two stages. In the first stage, the qualitative case study method proposed by Eisenhardt’s (1989) was adopted to explore critical resource-based factors that may potentially affect firms’ environmental strategy proactiveness. In the second stage, Ragin’s (2009) fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis was adopted to explore equifinal configurations of the critical factors identified in the first stage that sufficiently explain proactiveness of environmental strategy.
The result of this study suggest four sufficient configurations that lead to higher proactiveness of environmental strategy. The four configurations were named as: 1. small enterprises with limited capital resources and conservative networks, under the leadership of a highly-educated management team that has low incidence of team conflicts, 2. small enterprises with limited capital resources and abundant network resources, under the leadership of an environment- and innovation-oriented management team that has low incidence of team conflicts, 3. large enterprises with abundant capital and network resources, under the leadership of a diversified and environment-oriented management team, and 4. large enterprises with abundant capital and network resources as well as highly educated employees, under the leadership of an environment-oriented management team. This study suggests that for small enterprises with limited capital resources, homogeneous management teams would contribute to environmental strategy proactiveness. For large enterprises with abundant capital and network resources, this study suggests that diversified management team would contribute to environmental strategy proactiveness.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/106NDHU5121030 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Yu-Ting Wang, 王郁婷 |
| Contributors | Wein-Hong Chen, 陳雯虹 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 110 |
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