Corporate Greening Through ISO 14001: A Rational Myth?

By Olivier Boiral. Organ. Sci., 2007

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Subfields: Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Accounting for the Unaccountable: Biodiversity Reporting and Impression Management (2014, neutral): “As a result, although many studies have criticized organizations’ symbolic commitment to sustainability, their focus on image improvement, and the emphasis on a positive rhetoric (Laufer 2003; Cho et al. 2010; Unerman et al. 2007; Gray 2010; Boiral 2007; Springett 2003), they have overlooked the man”
Process Innovation: Open Innovation and the Moderating Role of the Motivation to Achieve Legitimacy (2018, background): “This explanation is in line with that of Boiral (2007), who argued that the preparation of audits of the implementation of the ISO14001 standard often led to a superficial demonstration of conformity.”
Stimulating Different Types of Eco-Innovation in the UK: Government Policies and Firm Motivations (2011, background): “Similarly, Boiral (2007) finds that formal EMS fail to improve the environmental performance, yet introduce many cumbersome and bureaucratic procedures.”
Modeling the Impacts of Corporate Commitment on Climate Change (2012, background): “…that companies have not yet had time to truly integrate climate change concerns into their environmental management system or, alternatively, that the system is geared to improving the company’s image more than their real performance, as some studies suggest (Jiang and Bansal, 2003; Boiral, 2007).”
The Emperor Has No Clothes: The Limits of OPEC in the Global Oil Market (2014, background): “See McNamara 2002; Boiral 2007; and Meyer and Rowan 1977.”
Organizational Responses to Environmental Demands: Opening the Black Box (2008, background): “Indeed, government voluntary environmental programs and the ISO 14001 standard are themselves institutions, sets of rules and norms that might be operating as a ‘rational myth’ that spurs ‘ceremonial behavior’ (Boiral, 2007).”
Overcoming the barriers to pro-environmental behaviors in the workplace: A systematic review (2018, background): “The active participation of workers is one of the principal factors influencing the successful integration of environmental standards and policies, including ISO 14001 (Boiral, 2003, Boiral, 2007, Christmann and Taylor, 2006).”
What Drives Substantive Versus Symbolic Implementation of ISO 14001 in a Time of Economic Crisis? Insights from Greek Manufacturing Companies (2018, background): “This is because a company can gain its legitimacy by merely implementing a standard in a symbolic manner (Boiral, 2007; Castka and Prajogo, 2013), thus minimizing the costs of complying with prevailing regulations.”
From Employment Relations to Consumption Relations: Balancing Labor Governance in Global Supply Chains (2014, background): “Therefore, a mere compliance-based approach has been associated with symbolic and superficial implementation (Boiral, 2007).”
Managers’ Citizenship Behaviors for the Environment: A Developmental Perspective (2018, background): “Where this involvement is insufficient, those systems are tend to be disconnected from daily activities and to be implemented symbolically rather than substantially (Boiral 2007; Jiang and Bansal 2003; Yin and Schmeidler 2009).”