The military imprint: The effect of executives’ military experience on firm pollution and environmental innovation

IF 9.1 1区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT Leadership Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI:10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101562

Zhe Zhang , Bingkun Zhang , Ming Jia

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Abstract

This study focuses on military experienced executives (CEO and chairman) and their effect on two types of firm environmental strategy: firm pollution and environmental innovation. From the perspective of imprinting theory, we find that executives with military imprint, which, so we argue, instills a sense of following rules and stewardship for the collective, negatively relate to firm pollution and positively relate to firm environmental innovation. The strength of military imprint at its formation is shaped by whether focal executives had a military officer rank. In addition, working in an environment with strong pro-military culture sustains and even strengthens the military imprint. Analyses of data from 6,664 firm-year observations of heavily polluting industries from Chinese listed firms between 2013 and 2017 largely support our hypotheses (see Table 4 for overview of various tests). Overall, our efforts of extending imprinting theory to leadership literature suggest that the imprinting effect of military experience persists in executives’ decision-making processes. Furthermore, this study contributes to imprinting research by emphasizing the importance of considering imprint formation and imprint persistence.

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军事烙印:高管的军事经历对企业污染和环境创新的影响

本研究的重点是军队经验高管(CEO和董事长)及其对两种类型的企业环境战略:企业污染和环境创新的影响。从印记理论的角度来看，我们发现，具有军事印记的高管(因此我们认为，这种印记灌输了一种遵守集体规则和管理集体的意识)与企业污染负相关，与企业环境创新正相关。在其形成时，军事印记的强度取决于核心高管是否拥有军官级别。此外，在一个亲军文化浓厚的环境中工作，会维持甚至加强军队的印记。对2013年至2017年中国上市公司重污染行业6664个公司年度观察数据的分析在很大程度上支持了我们的假设(见表4各种测试的概述)。总体而言，我们将印记理论扩展到领导力文献的努力表明，军事经验的印记效应持续存在于高管的决策过程中。此外，该研究强调了考虑印记形成和印记持久性的重要性，有助于印记研究。

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