How Coopetition Influences Environmental Performance: Role of Financial Slack, Leverage, and Leanness

• DOI: 10.1111/poms.13344
• Publication Date: 2020-12-07T10:04:57Z
• Authors: Sachin B. Modi; David E. Cantor
• Keywords: Leverage (statistics); Coopetition; Scarcity; Spillover effect; Stylized fact

Focal firms are struggling to improve their environmental performance for several reasons, including a scarcity of internal and external resources. This study suggests that coopetition provides boost focal firm’s performance. In particular, this research theorizes coopetitor has spillover effect on also investigates the moderating role financial slack, leverage, inventory leanness relationship. The empirical analysis indicates firms’ significantly influences relationship is weaker with higher stronger have lower leverage leanness. Collectively, these findings provide important managerial implications regarding consequences