Shades of Green: Business, Regulation, and EnvironmentStanford Law and Politics, 2003 - 210 pages In humankind's struggle to prevent further deterioration of its natural environment, the capitalist business corporation - typically thought of as a major source of that degradation - holds one of the keys to success. Yet current-day corporations are different shades of green, varying considerably in environmental performance. They range from environmental laggards who fail to meet even minimal standards to environmental leaders who go substantially beyond compliance with legal standards, with the large majority located at some point between these two poles. 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. Industrial point-source pollution, which has been regulated for ever threee decades, was an obvious focus for the research. The pulp and paper industry sector was chosen for study because, in every nation, pulp and paper mills, which historically have been sources of extremely serious water pollution and offensive fumes, have been at or near the top of the environmental agenda. Consequently, many firms have been compelled or induced to develop complex systems of internal regulation, facilitating the study of intercompany differences in environmental management abnd their relationship to environmental performance. |
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... relative environmental performance of certain mills . For example , due to variability in raw material and bleaching processes , some mills found oxygen delignification systems to be a profitable , win - win investment , while others ...
... relative environmental performance of certain mills . For example , due to variability in raw material and bleaching processes , some mills found oxygen delignification systems to be a profitable , win - win investment , while others ...
Page 89
... relative " stringency " of the terms of its social license . Local activists demanded dif- ferent things from different mills . Moreover , different mills responded to ( and reshaped ) similar community demands in disparate ways , as ...
... relative " stringency " of the terms of its social license . Local activists demanded dif- ferent things from different mills . Moreover , different mills responded to ( and reshaped ) similar community demands in disparate ways , as ...
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... relative " tightness ” of each mill's economic license , our qualitative data as well as the analysis of management style in the next chapter , lead us to believe that economic variables , however well meas- ured , are not likely to ...
... relative " tightness ” of each mill's economic license , our qualitative data as well as the analysis of management style in the next chapter , lead us to believe that economic variables , however well meas- ured , are not likely to ...
Contents
The License to Operate and Corporate Environmental | 41 |
The License to Operate and Interfirm Differences | 75 |
Environmental Management Style and Corporate | 95 |
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