Does Financial Performance Enhance the Transfer of Environmental Management Practices to Overseas Subsidiaries?
Journal of Business and Policy Research
Vol. 11. No. 1., July 2016, Pages: 86 – 97Does Financial Performance Enhance the Transfer of Environmental Management Practices to Overseas Subsidiaries?
This paper analyzes the relationship between the financial performance of multinational enterprises and the international transfer of environmental management practices. The data used are obtained from two sources: Nihon Keizai Shimbun’s NEEDS for financial data and transfer data from a questionnaire survey conducted in Vietnam. The ordinary least square method is used for analysis. We examine the hypothesis that higher performance of a firm is positively related to higher transfer of environmental management practices to the overseas subsidiary. We found that the environmental management system is significantly related to financial performance (ROS). The different results suggest meaningful implications.