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Corporate sustainability of Portuguese seaports
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Responding to calls for studies examining corporate sustainability (CS) in a seaport setting, this study analyzes
the Portuguese case since it is little known, despite some pioneering initiatives of Portuguese seaports as the
development of the Logistic Single Window. Following a qualitative approach, information was collected through
semi-structured interviews, publicly available news and videos, seaports’ websites, and reports. Starting from
Oliver’s (1991) model, which combines institutional theory and resource dependence perspective, we extended
the theory by adding the resource-based view to analyze the institutional factors that predict seaports’ strategic
responses to CS. Our findings suggest that, while CS interpretation by Portuguese seaports has an underlying
acquiescence strategy, the way CS is put into practice reveals a compromise one. CS strategies are related to
seaports’ legitimacy and reveal great dependence on seaports from their external institutional context, resulting
in a harmonious port-city relationship and promoting consistency between institutional pressures and organi zational norms, voluntarily widespread in a context of great interconnectedness.
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Corporate sustainability Seaport sector Reputation Institutional theory Resource-based view Resource dependence perspective . Faculdade de Ciências Sociais
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Elsevier BV