Resumen:
Scholars have dedicated significant efforts to understanding the factors that influence the
environmental strategy of a firm, in order to mitigate the negative impacts on the ecosystem. Learning
more about the factors that encourage environmental behavior allows managers and policy
makers to improve action and advance correctly in this direction. Despite this academic interest, the
literature regarding family business has undertaken limited attention over the issue. Hence, our
paper aims to advance in this line of research, by empirically examining the relationship between
government support in family firms and their investment in environmental protection. Specifically,
we intend to analyze whether the family nature, and the government financial support, influence
their environmental strategy. The empirical analysis is developed with a sample of 1802 manufacturing
firms in Spain, using a binary logistic regression to evaluate the existence of dependency
relationships between the analyzed variables. The results show this dependency, confirming family
nature and government support as significant factors for a proactive environmental strategy, funding
the idea that family character posit...