Universidad de Oviedo, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales Avda. del Cristo, s/n 33071 Oviedo, Spain
Abstract
This paper seeks to make an empirical analysis of the degree to which the research effort and functional integration into the design of environmental activity account for a company’s environmental actionbased competitive advantage. To do so, we have used a sample of 110 factories. It has been proven that both factors (the research effort and functional integration into the design of environmental activity) have a positive influence on the factories’ environmental action-based competitive advantage. These outcomes are the main in this paper and they have major implications for companies’ research policy. It proves that there is a new advantage to the managerial effort dedicated to this area: this effort has a positive influence on the relation between a company’s environmental management and its environmental action-based competitive advantage.
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