Environmental NGOs and Business

National institutional antecedents to corporate environmental performance

“…Ioannou's and Serafeim's (2012) conception of ''promotion of competition'' is a first step in this direction, yet they measure regulatory rather than market conditions. Social institutions, for instance non-governmental organizations (NGOs), have also been conceptually proposed to be drivers of CEP (Hendry, 2003), but extant empirical studies have focused on the impact of such social institutions on corporate social responsibility only (Lim & Tsutsui, 2012;Toffel, Short, & Quellet, 2012) rather than CEP. Hence, we do not yet have empirical evidence whether-across countries-social institutions also affect CEP.…”

“…Activist groups are a major source of normative pressure on firms (Doh & Guay, 2006;Hendry, 2003). Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) seek to alleviate problems that tend to be underserved by governments (Vogel, 2010) or that governments find difficult to address (Hall & Soskice, 2001).…”

A stakeholder model in economic geography: perception and management of environmental stakeholders in German manufacturing companies

“…According to these studies environmental NGOs select their targets according to company-and product-related characteristics (Hendry, 2003;Frooman and Murrell, 2005). Thus, we propose the following hypothesis to be tested in our model: H 6: Company-and product-related characteristics do positively or negatively influence environmental stakeholder salience.…”

Strategic communication concept implemented through the corporate political activities: Suggested strategy modeling

“…The aim of this phase is to build an analytical approach for defining our goals and may achieve them through the CPA strategy. The purpose of this phase is to connect all-important stakeholders, bearing in mind stakeholder theory approach (Buchholz & Rosenthal, 2004;Driscoll & Starik, 2004;Hendry, 2003;Mahon, 2002), and project environment with goals of our lobbying project. The most effective approach is to make detailed analyses of all stakeholders and to try clarifying the interconnections, correlations and possible future trend in the area that represents our interest arena.…”