Firm self-regulation through international certifiable standards: determinants of symbolic versus substantive implementation

By Petra Christmann, G. Taylor. 2006

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Subfields: Marketing, Strategy and Management

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What We Know and Don’t Know About Corporate Social Responsibility (2012, background): “…while attempting to influence firms to engage in CSR. Specifically, stakeholders can be shareholders (David, Bloom, & Hillman, 2007), consumers (Christmann & Taylor, 2006; Sen & Bhattacharya, 2001), the media (Davidson & Worrell, 1988; Weaver, Treviño, & Cochran, 1999a, 1999b), the local…”
Input and output legitimacy of multi-stakeholder initiatives (2012, background): “The enforcement of voluntary rules is often monitored by independent organizations (Cassel, 2001; Christmann & Taylor, 2006), such as NGOs, or by audit companies, such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) (Gereffi, Garcia-Johnson, & Sasser, 2001).”
Institutional Drivers for Corporate Social Responsibility in an Emerging Economy: A Mixed-Method Study of Chinese Business Executives (2017, background): “With China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), more and more firms operating in or exporting to foreign markets gain international experience through interactions with global market players (Christmann & Taylor, 2006).”
The Harm of Symbolic Actions and Green-Washing: Corporate Actions and Communications on Environmental Performance and Their Financial Implications (2012, background): “First, because information on environmental performance in visibly polluting industries tends to be objective and widely available, it is relatively easy for stakeholders to identify green-washing (Christmann and Taylor 2006).”
The Environmental, Social, Governance, and Financial Performance Effects on Companies that Adopt the United Nations Global Compact (2015, background): “Examples of these initiatives are the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) [2], Social Accountability 8000 [3], and the ISO 14000 [4].”
Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries as an Emerging Field of Study (2018, neutral): “The last category involves the role of a firm’s primary stakeholders in predicting CSR activities as in consumer perceptions of the level of CSR importance (e.g. Christmann and Taylor 2006), and other stakeholder groups such as business–NGO alliances (e.g. Jamali and Keshishian 2009).”
Mind the Gap: The Interplay Between External and Internal Actions in the Case of Corporate Social Responsibility (2015, background): “…or self-regulation tools, such as international certifiable management standards and industry- or government-led voluntary programs (King & Lenox, 2000; Christmann & Taylor, 2006; Delmas & Toffel, 2008; Short & Toffel, 2010); and shareholder proposal activism (David, Bloom, & Hillman, 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).”
Country-level institutions, firm value, and the role of corporate social responsibility initiatives (2017, background): “Christmann and Taylor (2006) find that a firm shapes its CSR strategy in response to customer preference, monitoring, and expected sanctions, and Waldman, Siegel, and Javidan (2006) show that country-specific cultural factors and CEO leadership characteristics are associated with the values that…”
Means versus Ends in Opaque Institutional Fields: Trading off Compliance and Achievement in Sustainability Standard Adoption (2014, background): “…has focused on ways to deter opportunistic adoption by legitimacy or market seekers (e.g., King et al., 2012; Delmas & Montes-Sancho, 2010; Christmann & Taylor, 2006), advocating stringent, selective standards that may solve the compliance problem but inadvertently overshoot the…”
Government Procurement and Changes in Firm Transparency (2020, background): “This assumption seems reasonable, as the literature suggests that firms tend to implement management accounting standards more deeply when customers care about implementation or conduct more frequent inspections (e.g., Christmann and Taylor, 2006).”