Corporate Environmentalism And Public Policy
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Author | : Thomas P. Lyon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2004-12-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521603768 |
This is the first book to provide a hard-headed economic view of the voluntary approaches to environmental issues, especially toxic chemicals, waste disposal and global warming, that have become prominent in recent years. Corporate environmental initiatives are seen as a tool for influencing the behaviour of environmental activists, legislators, and regulators, though they may have ancillary benefits such as attracting 'green' consumers or reducing costs. Equally, government voluntary programs are seen as a way to achieve modest environmental results when political resistance to mandatory policies is high. Rigorous analysis is illustrated with numerous case studies drawn from the US, Europe, and Japan, while technical details are relegated to appendices, and each chapter highlights implications for corporate strategy and public policy. Although rooted in economic theory, this book will appeal to business strategists and policy practitioners, as well as scholars and researchers.
Author | : Jorge E. Rivera |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2010-08-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1139491679 |
It is increasingly common for businesses to face public policies and government regulation that demand some form of environmental or social protection. These protective public policies have grown in number, complexity, and stringency over the last few decades, not only in industrialized countries but also in the developing world. In this 2010 book, Jorge Rivera presents a theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between protective public policies and business compliance. This framework explains different levels of business compliance in terms of three different factors: the link between the stages of protective public policies and different levels of business resistance, the effect of country context, and the effect of firm-level characteristics. The second part of the book supports and elaborates on this framework by presenting empirical studies that examine two voluntary environmental programs: the US ski industry's Sustainable Slopes Program and the Certification for Sustainable Tourism in Costa Rica.
Author | : Rogene A. Buchholz |
Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Author | : Andrew J. Hoffman |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780804745031 |
This is a pathbreaking account of how the environmental movement has led to profound changes in the perceptions and practices of large-scale corporations, as shown here in the chemical and petroleum industries. The book traces how market, social, and political pressures drive corporations to respond to environmental issues, analyzes the cultural frames that organizations use to come to terms with these external influences, and describes the resulting changes in organizational culture and structure. For this expanded edition, the author has written a new chapter that brings his original assessment up to date, expands and modifies the model and data used in the original edition, and offers a broad picture of the current state of corporate environmentalism and where it is going.
Author | : Sharon Beder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Anti-environmentalism |
ISBN | : 9781870098670 |
Global Spin reveals the sophisticated techniques being used around the world by powerful conservative forces to try to change the way the public and politicians think about the environment. Large corporations are using their influence to reshape public opinion, to weaken gains made by environmentalists, and to turn politicians against increased environmental regulation. The corporations’ techniques include employing specialized PR?firms to set up front groups that promote the corporate agenda whilst posing as public-interest groups; creating ‘astroturf’—artificially created grassroots support for corporate causes; deterring public involvement by imposing SLAPPS—strategic lawsuits against public participation; getting corporate-based ‘environmental educational’ materials into schools; and funding conservative think-tanks, which have persistently tried to cast doubt on the existence of environmental problems and to oppose stricter environmental regulations. In the media, corporate advertising and sponsorship are influencing news content, and industry-funded scientists are often treated as independent experts. This updated edition includes new chapters about the business campaign to prevent action on global warming, and whether Greenpeace’s ideals are being compromised by ‘greenwash’.
Author | : Frances Bowen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2014-05-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107034825 |
Examines the underlying symbolic dimensions of corporate environmentalism, helping readers to separate useful environmental information from empty corporate spin.
Author | : Pratima Bansal |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 717 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199584451 |
This Handbook discusses the main issues, research, and theory on business and the natural environment, and how they impact on different business functions and disciplines
Author | : Neil Gunningham |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780804748520 |
This in-depth study of fourteen pulp manufacturing mills in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand provides the most extensive and systematic empirical examination, to date, of the reasons firms achieve the levels of environmental performance that they do.
Author | : Sheldon Kamieniecki |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780804748322 |
This book adds to the environmental politics and policy literature by conducting a comprehensive investigation of business influence in agenda building and environmental policymaking in the United States over time. As part of this investigation, the author presents an analysis of six cases in which private firms were involved in disputes concerning pollution control and natural resource management. In addition to determining how much business interests influence environmental and natural resource policy, the book tests possible explanations for their level of success in shaping the government's agenda and policy. The study offers a general conceptual framework for analyzing the influence of corporate America over environmental policymaking. The research then explores how much firms have influenced Congress, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and certain natural resource agencies, and the courts on environmental and natural issues since the beginning of the environmental movement in 1970. No other study has examined the ability of business to influence environmental policy in all three branches of government and in such detail.
Author | : Norman J. Vig |
Publisher | : CQ Press |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2017-12-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1506383475 |
Authoritative and trusted, Environmental Policy once again brings together top scholars to evaluate the changes and continuities in American environmental policy since the late 1960s and their implications for the twenty-first century. Students will learn to decipher the underlying trends, institutional constraints, and policy dilemmas that shape today’s environmental politics. The Tenth Edition examines how policy has changed within federal institutions and state and local governments, as well as how environmental governance affects private sector policies and practices. The book provides in-depth examinations of public policy dilemmas including fracking, food production, urban sustainability, and the viability of using market solutions to address policy challenges. Students will also develop a deeper understanding of global issues such as climate change governance, the implications of the Paris Agreement, and the role of environmental policy in the developing world. Students walk away with a measured yet hopeful evaluation of the future challenges policymakers will confront as the American environmental movement continues to affect the political process.