The ‘smallness’ of SMEs and their large impact on the environment: Contextual influences on the environmental practice recycling among European SMEs
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2022-06-22
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This study seeks to better understand the factors that contribute to the recycling as an environmental practice by European SMEs. Grounded in the technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework, a research model for assessing the contextual influences on European SMEs recycling activities is developed. Based on the TOE framework, eight hypotheses were formulated with eight factors (technological expertise, technological support, firm size, organizational resources, organizational expertise, firm industry, government regulation, customer demand) that might affect the recycling activities of SMEs. Survey data of the Flash Eurobarometer 456, with data regarding resource efficiency activities among a sample of 8868 European SMEs, were used to test the hypotheses. The analysis, conducted with binary logistic regression, showed several key findings. Within the TOE framework, technological expertise is the strongest factor for the adoption of recycling. Furthermore, technical support, firm size and financial resources also show significant results to positively influence the adoption of recycling among European SMEs.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen