Incentives for Environmental Self-Regulation and Implications for Environmental Performance

By William Anton, George Deltas, Madhu Khanna. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Racing to the Bottom? Trade, Environmental Governance, and ISO 14001 (2006, background): “Anton et al. (2004) report that more comprehensive EMS (the core requirement imposed by ISO 14001) lead to lower toxic emissions, particularly for firms that have higher pollution intensity.”
Is a voluntary approach an effective environmental policy instrument?. A case for environmental management systems (2007, neutral): “[2] and Potoski and Prakash [19].”
Adoption of Pollution Prevention Techniques: The Role of Management Systems and Regulatory Pressures (2009, background): “They also find that firms that were large toxic polluters and likely to face greater public scrutiny, that were in closer contact with consumers and were more visible to the public were also motivated to adopt EMSs (Anton et al., 2004; Khanna and Anton, 2002; King and Lenox, 2000).”
ISO 14001 certification and financial performance: selection-effect versus treatment-effect (2011, background): “…environmental management systems (EMSs), participation in trade association programmes emphasizing codes of environmental management, and adoption of international certification standards for environmental management are becoming widespread (Anton et al., 2004; Nakamura et al., 2001).”
Why do manufacturing facilities introduce environmental management systems? Improving and/or signaling performance ☆ (2009, methodology): “Anton et al. (2004) used instrumental variables estimation techniques to examine the role of a variety of environmental management practices on reported environmental performance.”
The Role of Cooperation in Responsible AI Development (2019, background): “They are also less able to identify and exert pressure on AI companies that are investing too little in safety (Anton et al., 2004).”
Voluntary Corporate Environmental Initiatives and Shareholder Wealth (2011, positive): “This is consistent with the findings of Khanna and Damon (1999), Anton et al (2004), Darnall et al (2008) and Brouhle et al (2009) which show that liability and regulatory threats are a major motivation for firms joining voluntary programs like EPA’s 33/50 Program to reduce toxic emissions and…”