Green and Brown? Globalization and the Environment

Boyce, James K.

doi:10.1093/oxrep/grh007

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“…Regarding the first matter, in models II that have a statistically significant F ‐statistic (II.2 and II.5), the coefficient is non‐significant, implying that there is no difference in terms of CSP between local Latin American controversial firms and MNC subsidiaries, this despite the fact that one might expect that firms from developed countries could bring advanced initiatives to emerging markets. Therefore, this point tends to support the so‐called ‘pollution haven’ hypothesis (Letchumanan & Kodama ), where companies move their controversial operations to developing parts of the globe to benefit from weak regulations (Boyce ). In fact, this is consistent with evidence presented by Nurunnabi (), which suggests that MNCs are not implementing their state‐of‐the‐art CSP initiatives in EMs as they are not forced by institutional pressures to do so.…”

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confidence: 87%

Does it really pay to be good, everywhere? A first step to understand the corporate social and financial performance link in Latin American controversial industries

Rodrigo

Duran

Arenas

2016

Business Ethics: A European Review

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Most research studying the corporate social performance (CSP)-corporate financial performance (CFP) link has utilized developed country samples. Also, this literature has generally focused on a wide variety of industries, ignoring the fact that certain sectors -such as controversial industries -have graver social and environmental issues. Hence, a gap exists in this tradition when it comes to emerging markets and controversial industries. This paper attempts to fill this void by providing preliminary evidence and insight on the matter. Based on an exploration in six Latin American countries and five controversial industries, we find a negative bidirectional association (or a non-significant one at best) between CSP and CFP. These results tend to contradict the mainstream conclusion of a positive bidirectional link, suggesting that institutional and market-level forces play a major role in shaping this relationship.

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“…This is of interest for sustainability studies, because social trust, and the broader concepts of social capital or social cohesion, have been suggested or identified as a factor in achieving environmental sustainability [3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. While the mechanisms may be complex [10], and social trust is likely to be just one of many mediating variables [11], the thesis derives from a result with strong empirical and theoretical support, that generalized, or social, trust, is essential for overcoming collective action problems [12,13].…”

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confidence: 99%

Inequality and Trust: Testing a Mediating Relationship for Environmental Sustainability

Kemp-Benedict

2013

Sustainability

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Instrumental arguments linking inequality to environmental sustainability often suppose a negative relationship between inequality and social cohesion. While social cohesion is difficult to measure, there are measures of a narrower concept, social trust, and empirical studies have shown that social trust is negatively related to inequality. In this paper we test whether at least part of the observed relationship may be explained by income level, rather than income distribution. We use individual response data from the World Values Survey at the income decile level, and find evidence that income level is indeed important in explaining differences in levels of social trust, but it is insufficient to explain all of the dependence. In the sample used for the study, we find that both income level and income distribution help explain differences in social trust between countries.

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“…Conversely, a negative scores represent clean paths towards development. Clean paths may result from clean technology adoption, industrial process innovations or end-of-pipe pollution abatement practices (Hart, 1995), and also from pollution displacement from developed to developing nations (Boyce, 2004;He, 2006;Taylor, 2005).…”

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“…In general these countries follow dirty paths, scoring high on Industrial Pollution whilst consistently alleviating issues EKC theory (Grossman and Krueger, 1995;Kaika and Zervas, 2013) suggests that economic activity increments are responsible for the severe environmental stresses experienced by most of these countries. However, this could also be due to the shift of dirty industrial 17 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 processes from developed nations through increases in foreign direct investment (Boyce, 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%

Transitions dynamics in context: key factors and alternative paths in the sustainable development of nations

Rodrigo

Wright

2015

Journal of Cleaner Production

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The spatial dimension of sustainability transitions is central to understanding how systems change, yet current literature falls short when it comes to explaining transitions dynamics in context, and the central factors and alternative paths through which particular spaces move towards or away from sustainable development efforts. We conduct an exploratory factor analysis and a post-hoc cluster analysis of sustainability transition dynamics at a spatial level in 99 nations. Based on our analyses we establish a multi-dimensional measurement tool of nation sustainability that considers place, time and directionality. The analysis yielded four key dimensions -governance quality, industrial pollution, socio-environmental conditions and clean wealth creation -upon which we elaborated clusters of nations representing four distinct empirical types of transition pathways, crossroaders, compliers, athletes and laggards. In doing so we provide a holistic view of the phenomenon, which is relevant for both further theorizing and policy development. *Manuscript Click here to view linked References AbstractThe spatial dimension of sustainability transitions is central to understanding how systems change, yet current literature falls short when it comes to explaining transitions dynamics in context, and the central factors and alternative paths through which particular spaces move towards or away from sustainable development efforts. We conduct an exploratory factor analysis and a post-hoc cluster analysis of sustainability transition dynamics at a spatial level in 99 nations. Based on our analyses we establish a multi-dimensional measurement tool of nation sustainability that considers place, time and directionality. The analysis yielded four key dimensions -governance quality, industrial pollution, socio-environmental conditions and clean wealth creation -upon which we elaborated clusters of nations representing four distinct empirical types of transition pathways, crossroaders, compliers, athletes and laggards. In doing so we provide a holistic view of the phenomenon, which is relevant for both further theorizing and policy development.Keywords: Sustainability transitions; Nation-level sustainability measurement; Empirical typology; Sustainability pathways; Factor analysis Highlights  It conducts a quantitative exploration of sustainability transition dynamics at a spatial level  It identifies sets of distinct factors and paths of sustainable development at national level  It conducts an EFA of 22 factors at the national level  It identifies 4 key dimensions relevant to capturing transition dynamics  It conducts a cluster analysis of 99 countries and develops an empirical typology of paths towards SD  It recognizes several policy implications for the four distinct groups of nations  It provides a promising start for the identification of key variables in sustainability research 2 1

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“…It fails to account for the substantial subsidies received by Northern grain farmers and does not adjust for externalities, both positive and negative. Not only do market prices fail to account for a variety of negative environmental costs associated with Northern grain production and the cultivation of non‐native export crops in the South, but they also fail to adequately compensate Southern grain farmers for their conservation of the agricultural biodiversity that underpins the resiliency of the global food supply (Boyce , ). Consequently, emerging trade patterns exacerbate economic inefficiency: they entrench dependency upon a global food market that is volatile and dominated by a handful of agro‐food distributors, processors and retailers; they increase the vulnerability of food‐insecure populations; and they threaten to undermine the long‐term evolutionary capacity of food crops.…”

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Maize Diversity and the Political Economy of Agrarian Restructuring in Guatemala

Isakson

2013

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Green and Brown? Globalization and the Environment

Cited by 21 publications

References 58 publications

Does it really pay to be good, everywhere? A first step to understand the corporate social and financial performance link in Latin American controversial industries

Inequality and Trust: Testing a Mediating Relationship for Environmental Sustainability

Transitions dynamics in context: key factors and alternative paths in the sustainable development of nations

Maize Diversity and the Political Economy of Agrarian Restructuring in Guatemala

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