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The role of environmental proactivity to explain the relationship between the stakeholder pressure and environmental strategy of wineries, both at process and product levels, is analyzed. We have applied a model of structural equations to a sample of 312 Spanish wineries. Consistent with prior research, the findings show a positive relationship betweenstakeholder pressure and the implementation of environmental strategies. It has been demonstrated both for operational environmental strategy (process level) and for environmental marketing strategy (product level) in an industry that had not been previously analyzed in the literature, that is, wineries. Since the influence of stakeholder pressure on the environmental strategy is greater through environmental proactivity, we found that environmental proactivity mediates the stakeholder pressure–environmental strategy relationship partially. This relevant novelty suggests that to enhance the integration of the environment into the business strategy, wineries’ managers should be informed and aware of the need to respond proactively rather than reactively to the stakeholder pressure.
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Our findings provide empirical support for stakeholder theory in a particular sector in Spain. Stakeholders pressure influences positively and significantly in the operational environmental strategy (regarding the process) and in the environmental marketing strategy (regarding the product) as well as environmental proactivity of the Spanish wineries.
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Environmental proactivity mediates the relatihonship between stakeholder pressures and environmental strategy with respect to the process and product of wineries.
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Size influences environmental proactivity and stakeholder pressure, but not environmental strategy of the wineries, neither at the operational level nor at the marketing level.
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del Brío González, J., Barba-Sánchez, V. The Mediating Effect of Environmental Proactivity on the Influence of Stakeholder Pressure and Environmental Strategy of Wineries in Spain. Int J Environ Res 14, 771–783 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41742-020-00281-2
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