Making Self-Regulation More Than Merely Symbolic: The Critical Role of the Legal Environment

By Jodi L. Short, Michael W. Toffel. 2010

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Subfields: Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Can Ratings Have Indirect Effects? Evidence from the Organizational Response to Peers’ Environmental Ratings (2015, background): “…decreased, but not as sharply, dropping from 29.5 percent of rated firms in 2001 to 20.9 percent in 2004.2 Third, in terms of misreporting emissions, prior work indicates that decoupling is most likely to occur in instances where monitoring is weak (Meyer and Rowan 1977; Short and Toffel 2010).”
Willing and Able: A General Model of Organizational Responses to Normative Pressures (2017, background): “By meeting legal obligations, compliant firms obtain a license to operate; when they fail to abide by the law, they pay (mainly monetary) penalties (Short & Toffel, 2010).”
Exposed: Venture Capital, Competitor Ties, and Entrepreneurial Innovation (2014, methodology): “To assess whether endogeneity was affecting our results, we conducted a difference-in-differences (DiD) analysis (see Short & Toffel (2010) and Bernstein (2012) for similar approaches).”
Who Takes You to the Dance? How Partners’ Institutional Logics Influence Innovation in Young Firms (2015, methodology): “Like Short and Toffel (2010), we included dummy variables indicating each year before, during, and after the match year to capture any changes in resource availability, such as government administration shifts, and our original results held.”
Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective Disclosure: A Global Study of Greenwashing (2016, neutral): “While prior research has focused on how governmental attention may reduce firms’ symbolic action (e.g., Short and Toffel, 2010; Marquis and Qian, 2014), less considered are the effects of firms’ more general institutional environments—including civil society—on the likelihood of organizational…”
Conflict Minerals and Supply Chain Due Diligence: An Exploratory Study of Multi-tier Supply Chains (2017, result): “Yet, as previous studies have shown different motivations and lines of argumentation exist for firms to follow new guidelines or not (e.g., Logsdon and Wood 2005; Schleper and Busse 2013; Short and Toffel 2010; Wright and Rwabizambuga 2006).”
Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life (2015, positive): “Stringham also seems to be oblivious to the fact that public and private regulations sometimes reinforce each other (Short & Toffel, 2010) and that private regulation, in some cases at least, emerges because some sort of public regulation or governmental support exists (Bartley, 2007).”