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Clusters, Global Value Chains, and the Business Environment: A Hierarchy of Institutional Influence on Small and Medium Enterprise Sustainability

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  • Barbara Caemmerer

    (ESSCA School of Management, Paris)

  • Valentina Stan

    (ESSCA School of Management, Paris)

  • Giorgio Russolillo

    (CEDRIC - MSDMA - CEDRIC. Méthodes statistiques de data-mining et apprentissage - CEDRIC - Centre d'études et de recherche en informatique et communications - ENSIIE - Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique pour l'Industrie et l'Entreprise - Cnam - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [Cnam])

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ABSTRACT Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) dominate the global business landscape, making their sustainability efforts crucial. Yet little is known about how institutional contexts shape these practices. Using Institutional Theory, we compare the influence of cluster membership (CM), global value chain (GVC) membership, and the organizational business environment (OBE) on SMEs' implementation of sustainability practices. Data from 12,326 SME decision‐makers in the European Union—collected via computer‐assisted telephone interviewing (CATI)—were extracted from the Eurostat Flash Eurobarometer 486. We use ordinal logistic regression to model SME sustainability practices as a function of CM, GVC membership, and the OBE, and dominance analysis to compare their relative influence. Findings show a hierarchy of contextual influence: CM has the strongest association, followed by GVC membership, while that of the OBE is relatively weak. These insights support efforts to expand SME cluster development and GVC integration to accelerate sustainable transformation and meet EU sustainability objectives.

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  • Barbara Caemmerer & Valentina Stan & Giorgio Russolillo, 2026. "Clusters, Global Value Chains, and the Business Environment: A Hierarchy of Institutional Influence on Small and Medium Enterprise Sustainability," Post-Print hal-05585592, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05585592
    DOI: 10.1002/bse.70839
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