Research Effort, Functional Integration, and Environmental Action-Based Competitive Advantage: An Empirical Study

Document Type : Original Research Paper

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Universidad de Oviedo, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales Avda. del Cristo, s/n 33071 Oviedo, Spain

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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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