Front cover image for Shades of green : business, regulation, and environment

Shades of green : business, regulation, and environment

"How much does regulation matter in shaping corporate behavior? This pathbreaking, in-depth study of fourteen pulp manufacturing mills in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand reveals the steadily tightening regulatory standards that have been crucial for raising environmental performance. But while all firms have shown improvement, some have improved more than others, many going substantially beyond compliance. What explains the variation in compliance? It is not necessarily the differences in regulation in each country. Rather, variation is accounted for by the complex interaction between tightening regulations and a social license to operate -- especially pressures from community and environmental activists -- economic constraints, and differences in corporate environmental management style."--Back cover
Print Book, English, ©2003
Stanford Law and Politics, Stanford, Calif, ©2003
xii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780804748063, 9780804748520, 0804748063, 0804748527
52312227
Beyond-compliance corporate environmental performance : theory and evidence
The license to operate and corporate environmental performance
The license to operate and interfirm differences
Environmental management style and corporate environmental performance