Amores Salvadó, JavierMartín De Castro, GregorioNavas López, José Emilio2023-06-182023-06-182015-070040162510.1016/j.techfore.2015.04.004https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/23815We would like to thank all the institutions whose support has made this investigation possible, particularly the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Project ECO2009-12405) and the Ikujiro Nonaka Research Centre for Knowledge and Innovation at CUNEF (Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros).Using a firm-level approach to environmental innovation and drawing on the notion of firm environmental capabilities' complementarities as the potential advantages derived from the connection between the different environmental practices of the firm, we heed the call of environmental management scholars to analyze environmental management systems' potential moderating and indirect effects. More specifically, this work analyzes the existing complementarity between environmental management systems (EMSs) and environmental innovation capabilities and the effect of this relationship on firm performance. In order to reach that goal, we test empirically a novel measure of environmental management systems that takes into account not only the certification but also the degree of development of the distinctive elements that are part of these systems. Our results show that environmental management systems positively moderate the relationship between environmental product innovation and firmmarket performance. The proposed theoreticalmodel is tested on a sample of 157 firms that belong to the Spanish metal production and transformation industry (one of the most polluting) with 100 or more employees.engjournal articlehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2015.04.004restricted accessEnvironmental management systemsModeration effectsEnvironmental management systems' new measurementEnvironmental product innovationMedio ambiente naturalEmpresas5311 Organización y Dirección de Empresas