the impact of social policies´ promotion and the moderating role of location on firm´s environmental scores

the objective of present research was to analyze environmental scores in companies whenadopting external social policies. we confirmed that location acts as a differentiating factor. we also analyzedthe human rights, community and product responsibility policies interaction with environmental scores. ourfirst hypothesis stated that social policies contribute to orientate companies toward environmental aspectsand improving environmental scores. the results supported the assumption that better environmental scoresare influenced positively by the promotion of social policies. we can conclude that the promotion of socialpolicies positively affects the environmental orientation of the firm. we can argue that company’s capacity tooperate guaranteeing the freedom association and excluding child, forced or compulsory labor, to be a goodcitizen protecting public health and to produce quality goods and services is a measure of being more sensibleto promote environmental aspects among their structures and processes. the differences between firms thatpromote external social policies and those that don’t are evident. finally, we have determined how locationmoderates the relative impact of each policy in the environmental performance.