Regulatory commitment to negotiated agreements: Evidence from the United states, Germany, the Netherlands, and France

Delmas, Magali A.; Terlaak, Ann

doi:10.1080/13876980208412668

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“…The US on the other hand is characterised by an individualistic ethos and free capitalism (Vogel 1986). The environmental policy is legalistic and centralised resulting in adversarial privatepublic relationships (Delmas and Terlaak 2002). Europe takes a position somewhere in the middle.…”

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What Determines the Decision to Implement EMAS? A European Firm Level Study

Bracke

Verbeke²,

Dejonckheere

2008

Environ Resource Econ

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Empirical research on the characteristics of environmentally responsive companies has focussed on US and Japanese companies. For Europe, which is commonly considered as the greenest of the three major markets, similar research is lacking. This paper seeks to fill this gap by empirically investigating business and financial characteristics, stakeholder pressures and public policies to distinguish companies that have implemented the European Eco-Management and Audit System (EMAS) from a unique firm-level dataset of European publicly quoted companies. We find that the EMAS participation decision is positively influenced by the solvency ratio, the share of non-current liabilities, the average labour cost and the absolute company size as well as the relative size of a company compared to its sector average. The profit margin exerts a negative influence. We further find that companies whose headquarters is located in a country that actively encourages EMAS have a higher probability of participation. Finally, this paper suggests that rather than attracting other kinds of companies, a favourable institutional context succeeds in convincing more of the same kind of companies to participate.The authors thank anonymous referees for providing helpful comments and suggestions on earlier drafts of this paper.

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What Determines the Decision to Implement EMAS? A European Firm Level Study

Bracke

Verbeke²,

Dejonckheere

2008

Environ Resource Econ

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“…Growing awareness of public institutions, citizens and consumers towards environmental sustainability [5] has significantly increased the pressure on companies pushing to reduce their negative environmental impacts [6,7]. The pressure imposed by external stakeholders as Public Authorities with strict environmental regulation has forced companies to adopt environmental practices [8]. Furthermore, consumers demand products and services aligned with societal and environmental values [9].…”

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EMAS Regulation in Italian Clusters: Investigating the Involvement of Local Stakeholders

Merli¹,

D’Amico

Preziosi³

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the 3rd World Sustainability Forum

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Abstract:The last revision of the EMAS Regulation encouraged a cluster approach to increase the participation of the organizations and to involve local stakeholders in the sustainability process. Our research activity, conducted by the Department of Business Studies of Roma Tre University and ISPRA (High Institute for Environmental Protection and Research), intends to partially fill the literature gap in the field by investigating the Italian cluster approach for EMAS, characterized by the creation of a cluster Managing Committee (MC) -which can receive an EMAS Cluster Certificate -in order to improve the implementation of the scheme. If in a first phase we investigated the effectiveness of MCs support given to registered EMAS organizations, the main objective of the second step has been to verify the impact of MCs actions on different stakeholders categories in 12 Italian clusters. We present the results of a survey conducted through the distribution of a specifically designed questionnaire on different categories of stakeholders in the considered clusters. The main two goals of the investigation are: to determine the impacts of MCs action in terms of environmental performance enhancements and network creations to improve the cluster competitiveness; to evaluate how the tools offered to cluster organizations have effectively contributed to a widespread knowledge of EMAS and environmental concerns.

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“…The ISO 14001 standard describes the basic elements of an effective Environmental Management System (EMS). These elements include creating an environmental policy, setting objectives and targets, implementing a program to achieve those objectives, monitoring and measuring its effectiveness, correcting problems, and reviewing the system to improve both the program and overall environmental performance (Delmas, 2002).…”

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“…Governments may provide incentives or impose sanctions for organizational transformation. Numerous studies have reported the role of the government in influencing the adoption of a management practice (Tolber and Zucker, 1983;Kelley and Arora, 1996;Russo, 2001;Delmas and Terlaak, 2002).…”

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In Search of ISO: An Institutional Perspective on the Adoption of International Management Standards

Delmas

2003

SSRN Journal

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This paper analyzes the determinants of the cross-national adoption of the international Environmental Management System standard ISO 14001 using a panel of 102 countries from 1996 to 2000. I use new institutional economics to develop hypotheses on the impact of the institutional environment on the cost of adopting the management standard.I also develop hypotheses using the institutional sociology perspective to address the role of the institutional environment in affecting demand and legitimation processes related to the standard. The results of the statistical analysis show that both rationales of cost minimization and legitimation play a role in the adoption of the standard. Using both theories improves our understanding of institutional forces affecting the early adoption of emerging management standards.2

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Regulatory commitment to negotiated agreements: Evidence from the United states, Germany, the Netherlands, and France

Cited by 35 publications

References 29 publications

What Determines the Decision to Implement EMAS? A European Firm Level Study

What Determines the Decision to Implement EMAS? A European Firm Level Study

EMAS Regulation in Italian Clusters: Investigating the Involvement of Local Stakeholders

In Search of ISO: An Institutional Perspective on the Adoption of International Management Standards

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