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Objective. The objective of the study is to combine the strategic management perspective on corporate responses to climate change with elements of the organizational behaviour perspective in order to formulate and test a comprehensive model of corporate engagement with climate action. According to the strategic management perspective, companies pursue “win-win” solutions by implementing climate strategies that are aligned with their overall business strategies, in the attempt to maximize both environmental and business goals simultaneously (Hart and Ahuja, 1996; Kolk and Pinkse, 2005), According to corporate sustainability research, the strategic management perspective ascribes corporate climate initiatives to proactive environmental strategies that couple external normative pressures with internally-driven organizational improvements achieved by means of enhanced efficiency and managerial capabilities, better reputation or reduced risk exposure (Sharma and Vredenburg, 1998; Aragon-Correa and Sharma, 2003), On the other hand, the organizational behaviour perspective investigates variability in companies’ climate strategies, by exploring the role of individual-level behavioural and cognitive determinants of action (Bazerman, 2006; Hoffman, 2010), This line of studies acknowledges the importance of intra-organizational factors in increasing the variability of companies’ environmental strategies within similar normative and competitive settings (Sharma, 2000; Cordano and Frieze, 2000), This line of corporate sustainability research assimilates insights from organizational psychology and behavioural research by focusing on the …