Table A1 Summary statistics of survey...

Table A1

Summary statistics of survey items

	Mean	STD	AVE	Composite reliability	Cronbach's alpha
Purpose of PMS			0.603	0.931	0.951
The reasons my company measure performance are to
Communicate strategy to employees	3.545	1.353
Communicate strategy to external stakeholders	3.822	1.501
Communicate direction	3.875	1.327
Establish and communicate business position	3.822	1.300
Review business strategy	4.212	1.326
Challenge assumptions in strategy	4.405	1.299
Check that business strategy is being implemented	4.284	1.313
Manage strategy implementation	4.383	1.243
Plan strategic actions of the business	4.390	1.309
CSR			0.649	0.928	0.91
In comparison with the industry average, how would you rate the performance of your company over the last two years in terms of the following indicators?
Supporting employees who acquire additional education	4.167	1.213
Deploying flexible company policies to enable employees to better coordinate work and personal life	3.822	1.315
Giving adequate contributions to charities	3.621	1.360
Using a program that is in place to reduce the amount of energy and materials wasted in our business	4.011	1.277
Encouraging partnerships with local businesses and schools to benefit the society	3.708	1.396
Improving sustainability through our product designs	3.856	1.349
Improving sustainability via our product return policies/processes	3.845	1.286
Risk-taking (developed and validated for use in this study)			0.541	0.875	0.842
My company has an operating top management philosophy of
Strong emphasis on research and development, technological leadership and innovations	4.379	1.261
Strong proclivity to high-risk, high-return investments	3.477	1.322
Growth strategy primarily through external financing (borrowings, capital issues, etc.)	3.288	1.480
Very competitive, “undo-the-competitors” philosophy	3.235	1.413
Mobilizing tangible resources to achieve goals	4.201	1.097
Mobilizing intangible resources to pursue goals	4.053	1.198

	Mean	STD	AVE	Composite reliability	Cronbach's alpha
Purpose of PMS			0.603	0.931	0.951
The reasons my company measure performance are to
Communicate strategy to employees	3.545	1.353
Communicate strategy to external stakeholders	3.822	1.501
Communicate direction	3.875	1.327
Establish and communicate business position	3.822	1.300
Review business strategy	4.212	1.326
Challenge assumptions in strategy	4.405	1.299
Check that business strategy is being implemented	4.284	1.313
Manage strategy implementation	4.383	1.243
Plan strategic actions of the business	4.390	1.309
CSR			0.649	0.928	0.91
In comparison with the industry average, how would you rate the performance of your company over the last two years in terms of the following indicators?
Supporting employees who acquire additional education	4.167	1.213
Deploying flexible company policies to enable employees to better coordinate work and personal life	3.822	1.315
Giving adequate contributions to charities	3.621	1.360
Using a program that is in place to reduce the amount of energy and materials wasted in our business	4.011	1.277
Encouraging partnerships with local businesses and schools to benefit the society	3.708	1.396
Improving sustainability through our product designs	3.856	1.349
Improving sustainability via our product return policies/processes	3.845	1.286
Risk-taking (developed and validated for use in this study)			0.541	0.875	0.842
My company has an operating top management philosophy of
Strong emphasis on research and development, technological leadership and innovations	4.379	1.261
Strong proclivity to high-risk, high-return investments	3.477	1.322
Growth strategy primarily through external financing (borrowings, capital issues, etc.)	3.288	1.480
Very competitive, “undo-the-competitors” philosophy	3.235	1.413
Mobilizing tangible resources to achieve goals	4.201	1.097
Mobilizing intangible resources to pursue goals	4.053	1.198

Note(s): This table summarizes the responses for each of our latent survey constructs. Average variance extracted (AVE), composite reliability and Cronbach's alphas are computed and shown in the far-right columns

Source(s): (Adapted from Kaplan and Norton 1996; Maignan and Ferrell 2000)

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