This paper set up hypotheses of the relationship among firms` environmental activities responding to environmental problems, the valuable green competencies and performance and conduct empirical test of manufactures in South Korea using a LISREL-based...
This paper set up hypotheses of the relationship among firms` environmental activities responding to environmental problems, the valuable green competencies and performance and conduct empirical test of manufactures in South Korea using a LISREL-based structural model. The findings of this study are as follows. First, firm`s compliance activity responding to environmental regulatory pressures of government levied in political and legal context has a significant negative effect on firm`s performance, but positive effect on producing the valuable green competencies. Second, firm`s innovation activity responding to market and competitive pressures related to environmental problems levied in economic context has a significant positive effect on valuable green competencies and performance. Third, the valuable green competencies produced by firm`s environmental activities can be sources of performance.