The voluntary environmentalists : green clubs, ISO 14001, and voluntary regulations

By Aseem Prakash, Matthew Potoski. 2006

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Subfields: Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Investing Up: FDI and the Cross-Country Diffusion of ISO 14001 Management Systems (2007, unknown): “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).”
Means versus Ends in Opaque Institutional Fields: Trading off Compliance and Achievement in Sustainability Standard Adoption (2014, background): “They can refer to process improvements, such as ISO 14000 (Prakash & Potoski, 2006) and ISO 26000 (Helms, Oliver, & Webb, 2012), or specify absolute performance requirements, like the Forest Stewardship Council (McNicol, 2006) and the Marine Stewardship Council (Oosterveer & Spaargaren, 2011).”
Morally Motivated Self-Regulation (2010, unknown): “For example, in a green club as considered by Prakash and Potoski (2006) consumers can restrict their matches to retailers that meet green standards.”
Convergence in Environmental Reporting: Assessing the Carbon Disclosure Project (2013, background): “Firms that implement environmental management systems are known to have improved compliance records and have improved environmental performance (Potoski and Prakash, 2005b; Potoski and Prakash, 2005a; Prakash and Potoski, 2006).”
Big brand sustainability: Governance prospects and environmental limits (2012, unknown): “Brand multinationals have been developing corporate environmental policies, codes and programs for several decades now (Prakash, 2000; Prakash and Potoski, 2006; Welford, 1996).”
Challenges and growth: the development of the interdisciplinary field of institutional analysis (2007, background): “When resource users are able to design appropriate resource regimes, sustainable outcomes are more likely (Vatn, 2005; Prakash and Potoski, 2006).”
Making Self-Regulation More Than Merely Symbolic: The Critical Role of the Legal Environment (2010, unknown): “Punitive enforcement can also destroy the reputational benefi ts fi rms get for good compliance behavior, undermining a key motivation for self-regulation (King, Lenox, and Terlaak, Self-Regulation 369/ASQ, September 2010 2005; Prakash and Potoski, 2006).”
Signaling virtue: voluntary accountability programs among nonprofit organizations (2009, unknown): “Management certification programs appear to improve firm revenue and environmental performance in some cases (Terlaak and King 2006; Prakash and Potoski 2006), but other studies suggests that participants in voluntary environmental programs may not improve their performance relative to nonparticipan”
The Comparative Politics of Transnational Climate Governance (2017, background): “…us to expect that businesses will be strongly motivated by international normative pressures and market-based incentives in their decisions to join transnational initiatives (Andonova 2009; Falkner 2003; Green 2013; Newell and Paterson 2010; Potoski and Prakash 2009; Prakash and Potoski 2006).”
Managerial Contracting and Corporate Social Responsibility (2008, unknown): “…industry (King and Lenox, 2000), sustainability as in the case of participation in Forest Stewardship Council and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative programs (Cashore et al., 2005), and improvements in managerial practices relating to environmental, health, and safety (Prakash and Potoski, 2006).”