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Strategic Responses for a Sustainable Future: New Research in International Management

ISBN: 978-1-80071-930-9, eISBN: 978-1-80071-929-3

Publication date: 6 September 2021

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(2021), "Index", Andersen, T.J. (Ed.) Strategic Responses for a Sustainable Future: New Research in International Management (Emerald Studies in Global Strategic Responsiveness), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 215-222. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-929-320214010

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Copyright © 2021 Torben Juul Andersen


INDEX

Academic enquiry
, 77

Accounting-based financial returns
, 188

Ad hoc interventions
, 190

Adaptive learning process
, 55, 91

Adaptive mode
, 90

Adjacent social negotiation process
, 91

Advertising intensity
, 191

Advocacy, support and
, 141–142

Agency theory
, 69

Alternative revenue streams
, 176

Altman’s Z score
, 189, 191, 195

Analytics-based planning
, 59, 91, 183

Ancient narratives
, 69

Annual planning process
, 58

Antecedent strategy process
, 88

Autonomous initiatives and slack
, 106

Autonomy
, 88, 140–141

autonomy-control paradox
, 88–89

local
, 106

Average return
, 56

Average variance extracted (AVE)
, 33

Bankruptcy risk
, 189, 199

Basic Human Needs (BHN)
, 3, 9

Basic strategic responsiveness model
, 50

Behavioral theory of firm
, 180–181

Better Life Index
, 9–10

Blogs
, 78

Bootstrapping

analysis
, 39, 43

procedure
, 34

Bottom-up process
, 102

Boundary conditions
, 128–129

Boundary-pushing thinking styles
, 128

Bounded non-conformity
, 125, 142–143

Bourdieu’s framework
, 130–131

Bowman paradox
, 51, 149

Buffer zone
, 129, 141

Bureaucratic organization
, 124

Business
, 2

conditions
, 176

ecosystems
, 80

Capex process
, 103

Capital
, 130, 132

analysis
, 131

structure of firms
, 182

Capital employed (ce)
, 152–153

Capital intensive businesses
, 191

Cash flow retained (cfre)
, 152–153

Casual relationship models
, 22

Central analytical planning process
, 58

Central limit theorem (CTL)
, 196

Central planning
, 50, 52, 58, 89, 92, 114

Central resource allocation
, 103–104

CEO tenure
, 150, 178

Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS)
, 71

Circumventing formal processes
, 110–112

Clean technology
, 30

Clean technology performance (ENct)
, 31

Clean technology strategy (CTS)
, 29–30

Co-opetition
, 80

Coercive isomorphism
, 26

Coherent model
, 183

Collaborative strategic planning
, 74

Collective-good view of social capital
, 2

Collinearity
, 187

Common shares (cshoc)
, 153

Common/ordinary equity (ceq)
, 152

Commonwealth of Australia
, 6

Competition
, 69

Competitive advantage (CA)
, 22, 27–28

Competitor pressures (CIP)
, 27

Complete case analysis
, 153, 192

Composite reliability (CR)
, 33

Compustat database
, 148–149, 151

Compustat Global database
, 151, 152

Computational model
, 50

Computational simulations of adaptive organizational process
, 148

Conceive potential responses
, 177

Confidence interval (CI)
, 34

Conservatism
, 129

Conservative organization
, 124

Constructive deviance, Maverick behavior and
, 115–116

Contemporary business environments
, 148

Contemporary strategic management
, 68

Contextualized explanation
, 88, 115

Continuous improvement (CIR)
, 28

Control variables
, 10, 190–191

Convergence
, 156

Convergent validity
, 33

Corner flags
, 101

Corporate ethics
, 2–3, 9, 12

environments
, 2

mediation effects
, 16

mediator role of
, 7–8

Corporate executives
, 50

Corporate firms
, 8

Corporate information
, 151

Corporate responses
, 189

Correlation matrix
, 12, 187

Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI)
, 10

Cost reduction (CRA)
, 27

Costs
, 190

Creativity
, 116, 128

Crime
, 6

Cross-sectional risk-return effects
, 52

Cross-sectional risk-return relationship
, 56

Current liabilities (lct)
, 152

Customer pressures
, 26–27

Cyberattacks
, 148, 176

Cyclical planning process
, 92

Darwinian evolutionary theory
, 69

Data fraud
, 176

Debt over equity
, 182

Decentralization
, 88, 90

Decentralized experimentation
, 50

Decentralized responsive initiatives
, 186

Democratic strategy
, 71

Dependent variables
, 9, 188

Descriptive statistics
, 192–196

Disaster events
, 148

Discriminant validity
, 33

Disruptive change (DCR)
, 28–29

Dissonant strategic initiatives
, 88

Dynamic adaptive strategy-making processes
, 51–52

generic strategic responsiveness model
, 50–51

model development
, 52–57

model extension
, 58–60

Dynamic capabilities
, 148, 177

Dynamic managerial capabilities
, 148

Dynamic resource-based perspectives
, 69

Dynamic strategy-making processes
, 88

Dynamism
, 116

Earnings development potential
, 185

Eco-product design (EDP)
, 24

Economic efficiency
, 90–91

Economic growth
, 6

Economic theory
, 69

Ecosystems
, 70

Education
, 10

Educational attainment
, 10

Effective SRCs
, 178, 185

Emergent strategy
, 91–92

End-goal-focused behaviors
, 124

End-of-life vehicle (ELV)
, 26

Environmental management
, 26

Environmental Management Representatives (EMRs)
, 32

Environmental outcomes of GSCM
, 30–31

Environmental pressure
, 10

Environmental sensing
, 51

Environmental strategic approach
, 22

Environmental turbulence
, 177

Equity Book Value (ebv)
, 152

Equity story
, 103

Ethical managerial behavior
, 2–3

Ethical rules
, 2

European Economic Area (EEA)
, 151

European firms
, 148–149

European telecommunications market
, 88

Ex post variance
, 188

Executive decision-makers
, 178

Exogenous risk factors
, 189

Extant strategy process
, 89

External drivers of GSCM practices
, 25–30

External facilitators
, 79

External finance
, 183

External stakeholders
, 26

Extreme events
, 148–149

Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM)
, 32

Field
, 130

analysis
, 131

of power
, 131–132

Financial crisis
, 50, 176

Financial leverage
, 191

Financial returns
, 188

Firms
, 176

capital structure
, 181

firm-specific assets
, 180

performance
, 188

size
, 190

Fiscal crisis
, 148

Formal issue selling
, 109

Formal processes
, 100–103

circumventing
, 110–112

effect on emergence
, 106–107

Formalized model
, 56

Formative measurement model
, 34, 37–39

Fornell–Larcker criterion approach
, 33

Fortune 500

companies
, 149

firms
, 50

Foundations of Wellbeing (FD)
, 3, 9

Future positioning (FPA)
, 27–28

Generic assets
, 182–183

Generic computational model
, 50

Generic strategic responsiveness model
, 50–52, 56

Global business environment
, 50

Global warming
, 176

effects
, 148

Governance failure
, 148

Green customer management
, 25

Green distribution practices
, 25

Green strategies (GSs)
, 22–23, 29

Green supply chain initiatives (GCSIs)
, 22, 23–25

Green supply chain management (GSCM)
, 22

data collection and sampling
, 31–33

environmental outcomes of
, 30–31

external and internal drivers of GSCM practices
, 25–30

formative measurement model
, 37–39

and GCSIs
, 23–25

high-order measurement model
, 39

measurement model evaluation
, 33–34

mediating effect evaluation
, 39–43

reflective measurement model
, 34–37

structural model and mediation effect evaluation
, 34

structural model evaluation
, 39

theoretical background and hypotheses
, 23

Greening downstream (GDM)
, 24–25

Greening post-use (GPU)
, 24, 25

Greening production (GPN)
, 24

Greening upstream (GUM)
, 24

Gross profits
, 189

Guided evolution
, 91

Habitus
, 130

Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HII)
, 195

Heterogeneous SRCs
, 177–178

Heteroskedascity
, 196

High performance volatility
, 185

High velocity environments
, 176

High-order measurement model
, 39

Homoskedasticity
, 187

Hostility
, 116

Household net adjusted disposable income
, 10

Humbleness
, 150

Hypercompetition
, 176

Hypotheses development
, 183–187

Imputation technique
, 149

Inclusion
, 72, 78

Inclusiveness
, 71, 73

Inclusivity
, 78

Income
, 10

Independent variables
, 9, 189–190

Indicator reliability
, 33

Industrial hostility
, 89–90

Industrial organizations approach
, 69

Industry dynamism
, 90

Informal issue selling
, 109

Information Technology-enabledness (IT-enabledness)
, 72, 73

Initial responsiveness model
, 55

Innovation
, 176–177, 180

innovation-based strategic options
, 206

model for SRCs and adaptation
, 184

Institutional pressures (IP)
, 22, 25

Institutional theory
, 22–23, 25–26, 69

Institutionalism
, 80–81 (see also Maverickism)

Intended strategy
, 91–92

conventional
, 117

formation
, 91

intended strategy-making
, 100

Interactive processes between center and periphery
, 107–112

Interactive strategy
, 71 (see also Open strategy)

extended responsiveness model
, 59

interactive strategy-making approach
, 50

Interim risk-return dynamic
, 151

Internal drivers of GSCM practices
, 25–30

Investment

in innovation
, 180–181

recovery
, 25

Isomorphic pressures
, 81

Key resources (KR)
, 22, 28

Keystone firms
, 80

Knowledge gap, interactive processes and
, 107–109

Knowledge-based assets
, 182

Kurtosis
, 160–161, 171–172

Least Absolute Deviation
, 206

Leptokurtic distributions
, 151

Leverage SRCs
, 176

Life expectancy
, 50

Life Sciences
, 168

Live video streaming
, 78

Logical incrementalism
, 92, 114, 117

Long-tenured CEOs
, 178

Low technology
, 191

Lower level (LL)
, 34

Macroeconomic policies
, 2

Management support
, 88

Manufacturing firms
, 192

Market capitalization (mktCap)
, 152, 156

Market-based measure
, 188

Maverick behavior
, 88, 110–112

analysis of interviews
, 98–100

autonomous initiatives and slack
, 106

autonomy-control paradox
, 88–89

case analysis
, 114–115

central resource allocation
, 103–104

and constructive deviance
, 115–116

data collection and analysis
, 94–96

emergence from center
, 105–106

emergent strategy and autonomous initiatives
, 105

equity story and shareholder value
, 103

findings
, 100

formal processes effect on emergence
, 106–107

hostile industry environment
, 113–114

implications for strategy
, 118

industrial hostility
, 89–90

inquiry from inside and from outside
, 94

intended and emergent strategy
, 91–92

intended strategy and formal process
, 100–103

interactive processes between center and periphery
, 107–112

methods
, 92

model for strategic emergence
, 117–118

semi-structured interviews and casual observations
, 96–97

single-case study and research site
, 93–94

strategy formation
, 90–91

strategy interaction
, 92

strategy-making modes
, 112–113

Maverickism
, 124

bounded non-conformity
, 142–143

current study
, 129–130

Mavericks, workplace cultures, boundary conditions, and power
, 128–129

Mavericks and positive deviance
, 133–137

nature of
, 125–126

outcomes for organizations
, 143–144

positioning Maverickism as act of positive deviance
, 126–128

positive organizational impacts of Maverick behavior
, 137–142

research design and analysis
, 130–132

sample
, 132–133

Mavericks
, 125–126

and positive deviance
, 133–137

workplace cultures, boundary conditions, power and
, 128–129

Measurement model evaluation
, 33–34

Mediator

role of corporate ethics
, 7–8

variable
, 9–10

Medium technology
, 191

Medium-high and high technology (MHT)
, 191

Micro-management
, 142

Missing data
, 151–152

Moderators
, 188

Modern narratives
, 69

Multicollinearity conditions
, 187

Multiple imputation approach
, 155–156

Multiple imputations with chained equations (MICE)
, 152–153, 155–156

applying MICE to dataset
, 156

Natural disasters
, 176

Natural-resource-based view (NRBV)
, 22, 25

Neo-institutional theory
, 80

Neo-institutionalism
, 80–81

Net Cash Flow
, 152

Net income (ni)
, 152

New competitive landscape
, 176

Non-conformity
, 136

Non-material capitals
, 130

Old work model
, 129

Open innovation strategy
, 71

Open strategy
, 67–68, 71–74

areas of extant academic exploration
, 77–79

consolidated definition
, 74–77

limitations of study
, 82

method
, 70–72

practice
, 78

research agenda
, 79–81

six-stage process for systematic literature review sample selection
, 71

strategy domain evolution
, 68–70

Openness
, 71, 78–79

Opens innovation
, 68, 70

Operating activities (oancf)
, 152

Operating Income before depreciation (OIBDP)
, 152

Operating Margin (opm)
, 152

Opportunity (OPP)
, 3, 9

seizing
, 51

Optimism
, 150

Ordinary least squares (OLS)
, 10

multiple linear regression analyses
, 187

random effects
, 10, 14

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
, 2

Organizational adaptation process
, 148–149

Organizational cultures
, 128

Organizational evolution
, 177

Organizational learning
, 55

Organizational resilience
, 178

Organizational slack
, 88, 181–182, 190, 203–204

Organizational theory
, 80

Organizational variables
, 187

Organizations
, 124, 176

Out-of-the-box thinking
, 125–126

Outlier persistence
, 161–168

Over-specification of model
, 187

Overconfidence
, 150

Pandemic
, 50

Participation
, 72–73, 78

Participative process
, 71, 77

Path-dependent random walk
, 55

Pecking-order theory
, 182

Performance data distribution
, 149–151

applying MICE to dataset
, 156

cleaning data
, 153–155

constructing dataset
, 152–153

distribution of performance variables
, 157

graphical representations
, 160

kurtosis
, 160–161, 171–172

methodology
, 151

missing data
, 151–152

multiple imputation approach
, 155–156

organizations
, 148–149

outlier persistence
, 161–168

performance distribution
, 158–159

results
, 156

skewness
, 160–161, 171–174

Performance function
, 54

Performance indicators
, 150, 152

Performance outcomes
, 149, 156

Performance volatility
, 185

Planning
, 90

Political instability
, 148

Pollution prevention performance (ENpp)
, 30

Pollution prevention strategy (PPS)
, 29

Poverty
, 6

Power
, 128–129

Practices in open strategy
, 79

Practitioners in open strategy
, 79

Praxis in open strategy
, 79

Principal component analysis (PCA)
, 9

Product recovery
, 25

Product stewardship performance (ENps)
, 31

Product stewardship strategy (PSS)
, 29

Profit logic
, 53

Psychological reference point factors
, 150

Public policy-makers
, 50

Quantile to quantile plots (QQ plot)
, 187, 195–196

R&D
, 186

expenditures
, 180

investment
, 181, 190, 204–205

Ramsey Regression Equation Specification Error test (RESET)
, 195–196

Real option
, 150, 180–181

portfolios
, 176

slack resources and
, 181–183

Recovery management
, 25

Reflective measurement model
, 33–37

Refurbishing
, 25

Regression results
, 196–199

Regulatory pressures (RIP)
, 26

Regulatory-driven practices
, 22

Remanufacturing
, 25

Repair
, 25

Reputation and legitimacy (RLA)
, 27

Resource-deprived mavericks
, 114

Responsive decisions
, 50

Return on asset (ROA)
, 152, 156, 188

Revenues
, 190

Rework
, 25

Risk

behavior
, 150

exposures
, 189

outcomes
, 188–189, 199

risk-return relationships
, 51, 150

Robust regression
, 206

Robust standard errors (RSE)
, 196

Rule-breaking maverick behaviors
, 88

Sample selection
, 191–192

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
, 152

Semi-structured interviews
, 96–97

Sense environmental changes
, 177

SG&A ratio
, 190–191, 195, 205

Shareholder value
, 103

Short-tenured CEOs
, 178

Simple one-factor model
, 54

Simple strategic responsiveness model
, 52

SIRIM
, 32

Skewness
, 160–161, 171–172

of each SEC office
, 173–174

Slack resources
, 181–183

Slow strategic planning process
, 58

SmartPLS software
, 34

Snow-balling approach
, 132

Social capital
, 2, 6–7, 9, 12

Social conformity
, 128

Social progress
, 1–3

additional analysis
, 14–15

index
, 4–5

measurement of variables
, 9–10

mediator role of corporate ethics
, 7–8

methodology
, 10–11

results
, 11–14

sample
, 8–9

theoretical background and hypotheses
, 6

Social Progress Imperative
, 8–9

Social Progress Index (SPI)
, 3, 9

Society pressures (SIP)
, 27

Specification errors
, 187

Stakeholder analysis theory
, 69

Stakeholder integration (SIR)
, 28

Standard & Poor (S&P)
, 151

Standard deviation
, 56

Standard errors (SE)
, 196

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)
, 152, 160

Static resource-based view
, 69

Static stochastic process
, 55

Stationary stochastic process
, 55

Strategic adaptation
, 50–51, 88, 149

Strategic alignment
, 80

Strategic decision-making processes
, 52, 68

Strategic fit
, 50, 52–54, 56

Strategic management
, 80

Strategic planning process
, 58–59

Strategic response capabilities (SRCs)
, 148, 150, 176, 178

background
, 177–187

effective SRC
, 199, 202

inhibitors and promoters
, 179

and innovation
, 176–177

limitations and future research
, 206–207

managerial implications
, 205–206

methodology
, 187–199

organizational slack
, 203–204

performance outcomes of effective SRC
, 199

R&D expenditures
, 202–203

R&D investment
, 204–205

regression analysis on downside and bankruptcy risk
, 200–201

Strategic responsiveness
, 50

Strategic risk factors
, 149

Strategy

domain evolution
, 68–70

formation
, 92

practices
, 68–70

strategy-making modes
, 88

strategy-making process
, 92, 96, 100

Structural model

evaluation
, 39

and mediation effect evaluation
, 34

Supply chain
, 22

Supply chain management (SCM)
, 22–23 (see also Green supply chain management (GSCM))

Support and advocacy
, 141–142

Sustainability
, 22

Sustainable development
, 8

Sustainable firms
, 8

Systematic literature review
, 82

Target level risk ratio (TLRR)
, 189, 191–192, 199

Tax(es)
, 10

savings
, 182

Technological intensity
, 191

Thematic analysis
, 131

Tobin’s Q (tq)
, 152, 191, 195

Top-down process
, 102

Total assets (at)
, 152

Total liabilities (lt)
, 152

Total revenues (revt)
, 152

Total sales (sale)
, 152

Trace plots
, 156

Trade-off theory
, 182

Traditional organization
, 124

Transaction cost economics
, 182

Transformational change
, 124

Transparency
, 10, 71–73

Trust
, 140–141

Turbulence of contemporary business environments
, 148

Uncertainty
, 27, 178

Unit of analysis
, 32

Upper level (UL)
, 34

Variance inflation factors (VIF)
, 11, 34

Voluntary behavior
, 127

Wikis
, 78

Workplace

cultures
, 128–129

environments
, 124

World Commission on Economic Development
, 8

World Economic Forum database
, 9