Managerial discretion and corporate commitment to the natural environment

Looks at two approaches: the "managerial view" and the "inertial view".  The difference is whether executives significantly influence their firms' environmental commitment or if other factors are more influential and limit the influence of execs

Inertial: Organizational change comes externally
Managerial: Manager is the agent of change

Findings

• If one of the firms' environmentally responsible members is part of the dominant coalition the relationship between executives and environmental commitment is greater
• Study does not make definite statements about the direction of causality in the relationship (the same will be true of our study)
• having an executive with environmental responsibility does not guarantee environmentally important advances...the exec also needs discretion

"No study has empirically analyzed the interplay between external and internal factors in relation to organizations' environmental commitment" hmmmm

Aragón-Correa, J., Matías-Reche, F., & Senise-Barrio, M. (2004). Managerial discretion and corporate commitment to the natural environment. Journal Of Business Research, 57(9), 964-975. doi:10.1016/S0148-2963(02)00500-3

(Aragón-Correa et al., 2004)