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Strategic Alliances for Environmental Protection

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Existing scholarship regarding strategic alliances has been limited by the tendency to view alliance formation through a single theoretical lens and to focus solely on the economic aspects (e.g., acquisition of capabilities) of narrowly defined relationships. As yet, there has been little attention paid toward examining how strategic alliances—of all sorts—can address social, economic and environmental issues. This chapter addresses these concerns by integrating the resource-based view of the firm with institutional theory to assess firms’ decisions to participate in a strategic alliance. Drawing on these motivations, this chapter articulates a framework to characterize strategic alliances based on their competency- and legitimacy-orientation. A conceptual model is then constructed to examine the extent to which these strategic alliances are likely to encourage firms to adopt more (or less) proactive environmental strategies.

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  1. Department of Environmental Science & Policy, George Mason University, EV1-231, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada

    Haiying Lin

  2. Faculty of Environment, Business and Environment, University of Waterloo, MSN 5F2, Fairfax, VA, 22030, USA

    Nicole Darnall

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  1. Clark University, Main Street 950, Worcester, 01610-1477, USA

    Joseph Sarkis

  2. College at Brockport, State University of New York, Brockport, New Campus Drive 350, Brockport, 14420-2914, USA

    James J. Cordeiro

  3. ESRC Centre for Business Relationships,, Accountability, Sustainability &, Cardiff University, Park Place 55, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, United Kingdom

    Diego Vazquez Brust

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Lin, H., Darnall, N. (2010). Strategic Alliances for Environmental Protection. In: Sarkis, J., Cordeiro, J., Vazquez Brust, D. (eds) Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3159-4_13

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