Contrary to large enterprises, the environmental impact from small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has not, to the same extent, attracted stakeholder attention and engagement. A similar lack of attention seems to have dominated management scholars who seem to have predominantly focused on the competitive implications of environmental sustainability of large enterprises. To fill up some of that gap, this study draws on the resource-based view of the firm and the innovation-value-capturing-framework to identify and characterise complementary assets utilised to materialise the competitive advantage of environmental management practices (EMP) in SMEs. Based on a multifirm case study among Danish SMEs in the printing and graphic industry, we demonstrate why and how SMEs' strategic involvement in EMP can be justified. This research complements existing insights in the field by exposing how SMEs operating under conditions of weak appropriability can justify investment in EMP thus highlighting their role in pursuing corporate sustainability.

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证明中小型企业的环境可持续性：对印刷行业互补资产的分析

与大型企业相反，中小型企业 (SME) 对环境的影响并没有在同等程度上引起利益相关者的关注和参与。类似的缺乏关注似乎主导了管理学者，他们似乎主要关注大型企业环境可持续性的竞争影响。为了填补其中的一些空白，本研究利用公司的资源基础观点和创新价值捕获框架来识别和描述用于实现中小企业环境管理实践 (EMP) 竞争优势的互补资产. 基于丹麦印刷和图形行业中小型企业的多公司案例研究，我们证明了为什么以及如何证明中小型企业战略性参与 EMP 是合理的。