Racing to the Bottom? Trade, Environmental Governance, and ISO 14001

By Aseem Prakash, Matthew Potoski. 2006

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Subfields: Marketing, Strategy and Management

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The effects of environmental innovations on CO2 emissions: Empirical evidence from Europe (2021, result): “On the contrary, other studies (Kearsley and Riddel, 2010; Kellenberg, 2008; Prakash, 2006) demonstrated that openness in international trade is not associated with increasing CO 2 emissions.”
Governance without a state: Can it work? (2010, background): “…particularly multinational corporations with a “brand name” to defend and whose products target markets in (consolidated and democratic) states in which consumers care about the provision of common goods (e.g. Potoski & Prakash 2006; Prakash & Potoski 2007; Héritier et al. 2009; Flohr et al. 2010).”
T ra nsna tio na l linka ge s a nd t he spill ove r of env iro n m ent- ef fi ci ency into develo pi ng c ountri es (2009, background): “…have also shown that if a country mainly exports to other countries with a high number of (potentially) efficiency-enhancing EMS standards (namely, ISO14001), this tends to spillover domestically into a higher number of EMS adoptions (Prakash and Potoski, 2006, Perkins and Neumayer, forthcoming).”
Investing Up: FDI and the Cross-Country Diffusion of ISO 14001 Management Systems (2007, methodology): “However, we find that in both panels bilateral exports weighted by ISO 14001 adoption have statistically discernable effects on host countries’ ISO 14001 adoptions—a result that coheres with Prakash and Potoski (2006b).”
Racing to the bottom? Chinese development projects and trade union involvement in Africa (2018, background): “…in the US automobile industry (see Vogel, 1995 and 1997), 5 has been applied to different regulatory settings, including environmental issues (Prakash and Potoski, 2006), human rights (Cao, Greenhill, & Prakash, 2013) and, most relevant for our purposes, labour relations (Greenhill et al.,…”
Transnational Private Regulation in Practice: The Limits of Forest and Labor Standards Certification in Indonesia (2010, background): “31 Prakash and Potoski 2006 32 Cashore, Auld and Newsom 2004 33 Auld, Gulbrandsen and McDermott 2008, 195 34 Overdevest forthcoming 35 Auld, Gulbrandsen and McDermott 2008; Cashore, Auld and Newsom 2004; Espach 2009”
Feasible mitigation actions in developing countries (2014, background): “Implementing those agreements is not primarily motivated by mitigation, but 405 environmental provisions are often included to prevent a race to the bottom in environmental 406 standards between trading partners.(96) Regional trade agreements have been the most popular form 407 of trade liberalizati”
Carbon emissions and the trilemma of trade policy, migration policy and health care in the US (2019, background): “UNFCC, C. (2015). Paris agreement. FCCCC/CP/2015/L. 9/Rev.1. (Accessed 2 September 2018). The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (2018). Progress Cleaning the Air and Improving People’s Health.”