Green governance? Local politics and ethical businesses in Great Britain

Bradley, Tony; Ziniel, Curtis E.

doi:10.1111/beer.12134

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“…On the other hand, other authors (Bradley & Ziniel, 2017;Han, Kang, Salter, & Yoo, 2010;Kwok & Tadesse, 2006;Nurunnabi, 2015) provide evidence that both the legal systems that provide consistent and comprehensive "rules of the game", and national and corporate culture, jointly determine managers' discretionary accounting choices. In this sense, in spite of the convergence, a uniform reporting standard might not necessarily translate into uniform reporting practices.…”

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Can compliance restart integrity? Toward a harmonized approach. The example of the audit committee

Calderón

Piñero

Redín

2018

Business Ethics: A Eur Rev

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The compliance‐based approach and the integrity approach have been the mainstream responses to corporate scandals. This paper proposes that, despite each approach comprising necessary elements, neither offers a comprehensive solution. Compliance and integrity, far from being mutually exclusive, reinforce each other. Working together, in a correct relationship, they build a harmonized system that yields positive synergies and which also advocates prudence (phrónesis). It enables the generation of a culture of compliance that tends to minimize the technical and ethical errors in decision making. In order to explore an applied harmonized approach, we analyze the audit committee, a specific and broadly accepted regulatory instrument. Formed by non‐executive members, regulation requires these members to be dedicated, qualified, and independent as a guarantee of efficiency. We show how the compound of those elements produces positive effects in a context of solid governance. We conclude that it is the strong relationship between efficiency and prudence, in the creation of a culture of compliance, which enables the minimization of errors.

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Can compliance restart integrity? Toward a harmonized approach. The example of the audit committee

Calderón

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Redín

2018

Business Ethics: A Eur Rev

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“…Besides the micro level of the individual consumer, future studies could take a more holistic approach by considering meso-and macrolevel determinants of environmentally-friendly purchasing (Abreu, Cunha, & Barlow, 2015;Bradley & Ziniel, 2017). At the meso level, factors related to the household and the city/region are important considerations for environmental consumption patterns (Kenworthy, 2006).…”

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Green intentions under the blue flag: Exploring differences in EU consumers’ willingness to pay more for environmentally‐friendly products

Gregory‐Smith

Manika

Demirel

2017

Business Ethics: A European Review

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Recent research on consumer social responsibility highlights the need to examine psychological drivers of environmentally‐friendly consumption choices in a global context. This article investigates consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) more for environmentally‐friendly products across 28 European Union (EU) countries, using a sample of 21,514 consumers. A multigroup structural equation modeling analysis reveals significantly different patterns and relationships, in how (a) subjective knowledge about the product's environmental impact, (b) environmental product attitudes, and (c) the perceived importance of the products’ environmental impact influence consumers’ WTP more for environmentally‐friendly products across countries. The hypothesized model predicts WTP for 20 out of 28 countries and the findings show that a “one‐size‐fits‐all” approach is inadequate in capturing the heterogeneity of EU consumers. Hosfstede's cultural dimensions of uncertainty tolerance and individualism explain differences in WTP for environmentally‐friendly products across EU countries. Business, marketing communications, and policy making implications are discussed.

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“…For example, the European agreements on acid rain include a monitoring process that is able to evaluate the accuracy of emissions data reported by states and increase the reliability of reported information [43]. Through continuous legislative efforts, Great Britain has been gradually implementing green governance, and ethical businesses have formed [44].…”

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Green Governance and International Business Strategies of Emerging Economies’ Multinational Enterprises: A Multiple-Case Study of Chinese Firms in Pollution-Intensive Industries

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With the global consensus on the need for sustainability practices, green governance has attracted increasing attention from international business (IB) scholars and multinational enterprise (MNE) managers. In this study, we propose a more fine-grained framework of the green governance context along two dimensions: foreign direct investment (FDI) policy and environmental regulation. Then, we examine the framework using cluster analysis. On the basis of a multiple-case study comprising 11 Chinese MNEs in pollution-intensive industries operating in four different green governance contexts, we conclude that (1) the green governance context is a significant factor in MNEs’ global location choices and is an important driving force behind MNEs’ response patterns; (2) environmental capabilities enable MNEs to surmount a host country’s environmental entry barrier and facilitate wider global business deployment; (3) technological capabilities increase MNEs’ competitive edge and allow them to better harness a host country’s growth opportunities; (4) there are four types of green governance response patterns, and the details of the proposed classification structure and its validation are presented; and (5) both strict environmental regulation and friendly FDI policy can positively influence MNEs’ adoption of more active response patterns, and greater availability of environmental and technological capabilities does not affect MNEs’ environmental commitment. This study contributes to the international strategy-capability-environment alignment of emerging economies’ multinational enterprises (EMNEs) in different green governance contexts.

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Green governance? Local politics and ethical businesses in Great Britain

Cited by 12 publications

References 51 publications

Can compliance restart integrity? Toward a harmonized approach. The example of the audit committee

Can compliance restart integrity? Toward a harmonized approach. The example of the audit committee

Green intentions under the blue flag: Exploring differences in EU consumers’ willingness to pay more for environmentally‐friendly products

Green Governance and International Business Strategies of Emerging Economies’ Multinational Enterprises: A Multiple-Case Study of Chinese Firms in Pollution-Intensive Industries

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