The Impact of Strategic Vigilance on Improving Sustainable Environmental Performance: A Case Study in the Basra Oil Company

Abstract

Purpose: determine the extent to which Iraqi local companies are aware of the concept and importance of strategic vigilance, as well as the time it takes for companies under study to understand the idea of environmental performance.

Design/methodology/ approach: The study used the descriptive analytical approach. Also, the model and hypothesis were tested by a number of statistical tools using (SPSS) such as (arithmetic mean, standard deviation, correlation coefficient, and regression).

Findings: the main results of this paper are the presence of statistically significant differences between strategic vigilance and long-term environmental performance, and these results led to a number of recommendations that could help the company under study to improve its long-term environmental performance.

Research, practical & social implications: the results of this paper try to Encourage Iraqi companies to adopt the concept of strategic vigilance because of its importance in achieving one of the most important requirements for improving and sustaining environmental performance.

Originality/value: this paper is written in order to improve the knowledge communication of the literature with the increasing interest in the topic of sustainability, which is one of the critical and strategic problems and challenges facing business organizations after they have become the most important source of competitive advantage. Especially the researchers have chosen the Basra Oil Company chosen as the field for measuring the research method and hypotheses which is an important local company in has an important role in the Iraqi environment.