Green by choice? Cross-national variations in firms' responses to EMS-based environmental regimes

被引:94
作者
Kollman, K [1 ]
Prakash, A
机构
[1] George Washington Univ, Sch Business & Publ Management, Washington, DC 20052 USA
[2] George Washington Univ, Dept Polit Sci, Washington, DC 20052 USA
[3] George Washington Univ, Elliott Sch Int Affairs, Washington, DC 20052 USA
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10.1353/wp.2001.0010
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D81 [国际关系];
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030207 ;
摘要
Firm-level EMS adoption patterns in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States vary, thereby suggesting that national contexts influence firms' responses to them. In Germany and the U.K. a significant number of sites have become either ISO 14001 or EMAS certified, while the take-up of ISO 14001 in the U.S. (EMAS is available only to European sites) has been less enthusiastic. This article begins with the hypothesis that firms in countries with adversarial economies- where regulators and business are on less than friendly terms-are less likely to adopt EMS-based programs. This hypothesis explains why Iso 14001 take-up has been relatively high in the U.K. and relatively low in the U.S. However, it cannot explain (1) the high rate of take-up of both Iso 14001 and EMAS in Germany, where the stringency of environmental legislation has been a contentious issue between the government and industry and (2) why EMAS has been more popular in Germany than in the U.K. This article argues that the original hypothesis, while largely correct, is underspecified. To better explain the cross-national differences in EMS adoption, one must take into account the type of adversarial economy (adversarial legalism versus prescriptive Interventionism) and the nature of the policy regime (procedural versus substantive).
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