Environmental Enforcement and Small Industries in India: Reworking the Problem in the Poverty Context

Dasgupta, Nandini

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“…Certain studies have pointed to differences in firms' connectedness to market and regulatory pressures (Mercado 2000;Vogel 2000;Jeppesen and Hansen 2004). Other studies have highlighted the importance of technological and financial capabilities (Dasgupta 2000), while still others have focused attention on corporate strategies (Delmas and Toffel 2004).…”

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“…Among the former, studies have pointed to the role of regulatory pressure from governments and civil society, together with market incentives in terms of improved cost competitiveness and access to environmentally demanding customers (Jenkins 2000;Rock 2002;Utting 2002). In terms of the latter, barriers have been identified primarily as technological and financial in nature, with firms' capabilities limiting their ability to improve environmental performance (Dasgupta 2000;Sawhney 2004).…”

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“…Beyond references to economic liberalization (e.g., see Jenkins 2000; Rock 2002), they have failed to theorize, specify, and identify the underlying pathways through which corporate greening has arisen. Second, past research has paid insufficient attention to the role of external pressures, and their relationship to internal constraints, in explaining uneven patterns of corporate environmentalism (e.g., see Dasgupta 2000). In doing so, it has ignored a body of literature, which suggests that corporate behavior is often shaped by the strategic interplay between internal and external opportunities, incentives, and constraints (Oliver 1997;Hoffman 2001).…”

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Globalizing Corporate Environmentalism? Convergence and Heterogeneity in Indian Industry

Perkins

2007

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What explains the recent emergence of corporate environmentalism in developing countries? Why have certain firms surpassed others in greening their activities? This article situates the uneven dynamics of corporate greening within a theoretical framework of convergence, firm specificity, and heterogeneity. Through a comparative analysis of firms in three sectors-automobiles, steel, and power-of the Indian economy during the past two decades, I show that corporate greening is rooted in processes of growing international political engagement, market integration, and transnational social communication. Together, these processes have unleashed various economic and sociological convergence dynamics, which have led firms in India to adopt more environmentally sound innovations and performances increasingly similar to those found in many developed countries. Yet firms' connectedness to external pressures fostering "upward" convergence varies, as do their internal capabilities to respond to them. Heterogeneity in these internal and external variables, and the firm-specific strategies linking them, accounts for much of the unevenness in patterns of corporate environmentalism observed in India.

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2007

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“…Addressing the complex nature of socio-environmental problems, Wijen (2014, p. 310) highlights that "institutions such as sustainability standards that are conducive to compliance prescribe and incentivize adherence to clear rules" may create a 'waterbed effect', i.e. solving one problem while creating another (see also Dasgupta, 2000;Timmermans & Epstein, 2010). While acknowledging the importance of time (Wijen, 2014, p. 313 (2) While the classic view originally focused on decoupling in local mono-spatial settings such as colleges, hospitals or government agencies, the instrumental perspective expands the geographic space by focusing on the global context of socio-environmental problems.…”

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Making Sense of Decoupling Through Narration: The Case of Fighting Corruption in Global Business

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Haack

2015

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Previous organizational research on decoupling in the context of socio-environmental governance has suggested a trade-off between compliance and goal achievement, meaning that remedying the decoupling of policies and practices tends to jeopardize efforts to remedy the decoupling of means and ends. We expand on previous research on the trade-off between compliance and goal achievement by examining the spatiotemporal processes of sensemaking by which the meaning of compliance and achievement is negotiated among multiple actors.Taking a qualitative analytical approach we examine the evolution of anti-corruption policies at Siemens and affiliated actors, and describe how different anti-corruption narratives have developed over time at different locations and how they have been linked to each other. We explain that through narration actors develop a shared understanding of what it means to be compliant and successful and elaborate how the apparent tension between compliance and goal achievement is dissolved through story-telling. Our study contributes to decoupling research by examining the ideational-communicative dynamics underlying the social deconstruction of the compliance-achievement gap.

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“…While comparative studies on environmental governance have focused mostly on Western industrial economies, there has been a growing interest in researching local environmental enforcement in developing countries and transition economies (Smith, 2000;Dasgupta, 2000;Stuligrouss, 1999;Tang, Prahash and Tang, 1998;Bluffstone and Larson, 1997). Much of this work has focused on China (e.g., Ross, 1988;Chan, et al, 1995;Tang et al, 1997;Lo, Yip and Cheung, 2000;Sinkule and Ortonlano, 1995;Jahiel, 1997;Ma and Ortolano, 2000), where the conflicts between economic development and environmental protection are often exceptionally pronounced.…”

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Enforcement Styles Among Environmental Protection Officials in China

Fryxell

2003

J. Pub. Pol.

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A BST RA C T Researchers examining regulatory enforcement have found that enforcement styles tend to be contextually determined in Western countries, which has resulted in a divergence in regulatory approach at both the national and local levels. Given the dearth of regulation research in non-democratic regimes, this paper makes an initial attempt to fill the gap by studying the impact of regional variations in regulatory enforcement in China. Accordingly, the effects of external support and organizational factors on the preferences for enforcement styles of environmental officials in three Chinese regions were examined. It was found that the strength of these influences on enforcement style dimensions is more variable than was anticipated. Generally, the patterns of relationships for Guangzhou and Chengdu were similar, while those for Dalian appear to reflect its unique environmental, economic and political conditions. Public support appears to promote several dimensions of enforcement style (i.e., education, prioritization, coercion) in Guangzhou and Chengdu; however, in Dalian the influence of government was greater than that of public support. The effects of internal factors were even more variable and probably reflect unique characteristics and priorities within each agency. Overall, the results suggest that caution is warranted when interpreting current findings about China that have used samples from a single region and that enforcement agency directors in nondemocratic regimes must take into account a complex array of contextual factors in attempting to promote a particular style of enforcement.

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Environmental Enforcement and Small Industries in India: Reworking the Problem in the Poverty Context

Cited by 53 publications

References 9 publications

Globalizing Corporate Environmentalism? Convergence and Heterogeneity in Indian Industry

Globalizing Corporate Environmentalism? Convergence and Heterogeneity in Indian Industry

Making Sense of Decoupling Through Narration: The Case of Fighting Corruption in Global Business

Enforcement Styles Among Environmental Protection Officials in China

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