Greetings,
Charles explained that the message I sent last night may
have been garbled as it was in an attachment. It included
graphics that do not appear in this text version. Thank you again in
advance for your advice:
Greetings,
I'd appreciate your advice on my next adventure in research.
I'm in the "publish or perish" mode, and as such one of my primary
goals is to generate scholarly articles. My potential research
question is: what is the relationship between strategies on the
natural environment and performance across an industry? I know I
have a rich literature to draw from. Here are my questions for you:
1. What are the best strategy typologies for decisions that
deal with the natural environment? I'd offer that Olive (1990,1991,
AMR/AMJ) is the most appropriate, but I'd like to use other
typologies as well. I have scales for Miles and Snow, but I'd
appreciate any advice on different typologies. I'd rather choose
ones that have defined and tested scales. For example, is Greer and
Downey's (AMR-1982) "CSL" model appropriate to measure strategic
types that deal with regulations?
2. How should I measure my dependent variable - performance?
I want to study both financial and environmental (sustainability -
water, indoor air, deforestation) performance. I could use
traditional financial measures such as ROI and ROE. Measures for
environmental performance are more troublesome. I will go out with a
survey, so I could ask representatives of the firms to self-report.
To avoid the self-reporting biases, I could use the Toxics Release
Inventory (TRI), but I'm not sure if I will be able to correlate the
data to my individual firms. I'd greatly appreciate information from
anyone who has tried to link TRI data to survey data.
3. I could also use your help in selecting the issue and
study population. I will try to study firms in multiple levels
within an industry or supply chain. I'd love to find an industry
with firms with specific SIC codes for archival information!
My possible hypotheses include:
H1: The more consistent the strategies of the complete supply-chain,
the better the performance (need more than one supply chain!)
H2: Performance is correlated with environmental performance for the
complete supply chain.
H3: Self-regulation will produce higher financial and environmental
performance.
H4: Moderating effects?
I look forward to communicating with you. I thank you in advance for
your time and advice.
Bruce
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Bruce Clemens PhD PE
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