Eiadat, YousefFernández Castro, Alejandro M.2024-04-082024-04-082022Eiadat, Y. H., & Fernández-Castro, A. M. (2022). Do formal and informal institutions matter for firm-level strategic environmental actions? A multi-level perspective from Jordan. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 65(3), 461–489. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2021.18878261360-0559http://hdl.handle.net/2183/36084[Abstract]: We developed an overarching multi-level mediation model using 199 responses from 53 companies from the industrial sector in Jordan to examine (1) the mediation effect of firm-level environmental climate on the relationship between formal regulatory institutions and firm-level strategic environmental actions, and (2) the role that informal institutions conveyed via political, normative, and business connections plays on the environment-related cognitions of top managers. At the ‘within’ level, our results indicate that top managers with strong political connections develop negative environment-related cognitions while those with strong normative and business connections develop positive environment-related cognitions. At the firm-level, our results reveal that firm-level environmental climate – as an aggregated measure of the ‘within’ level environmental cognitions of top managers – fully mediates the relationship between formal regulatory institutions and firm-level strategic environmental actions. This study demonstrates how multilevel research is used to enrich understanding of firm-level strategic environmental actions, with implications beyond Jordan.engAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/Firm-level strategic environmental actionsFormal institutionsInformal institutionsMultilevel analysisJordanjournal articleopen accesshttps://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2021.1887826