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The Strategic Use of Decentralized Institutions: Exploring Certification with the Iso 14001 Management Standard
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In this paper, the authors investigated an important type of decentralized institution, certified management standards, and theorized that firms use these institutions to reduce problems that might arise with exchange partners that lack information or fear opportunism.Abstract:
In this article, we respond to calls by previous researchers to clarify the function of decentralized institutions by analyzing the strategic motives of individual actors. We investigated an important type of decentralized institution, certified management standards, and theorized that firms use these institutions to reduce problems that might arise with exchange partners that lack information or fear opportunism. We tested this theory using the pattern of certification with the ISO 14001 management standard.read more
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Organizational Responses to Environmental Demands: Opening the Black Box
TL;DR: It is argued that external constituents—including customers, regulators, legislators, local communities, and environmental activist organizations—who interact with influential corporate departments are more likely to affect facility managers' decisions and thus adopt different management practices.
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Organizational Responses to Environmental Demands: Opening the Black Box
TL;DR: The authors argue that external constituents, including customers, regulators, legislators, local communities, and environmental activist organizations, who interact with influential corporate departments are more likely to affect facility managers' decisions and that managers of facilities that are subjected to comparable institutional pressures adopt distinct sets of management practices that appease different external constituents.
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Environmental Management Systems and Green Supply Chain Management: Complements for Sustainability?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the relationship between EMS and GSCM practices and find that EMS adopters may have a greater propensity to expand their focus beyond their organizational boundaries and utilize GCCM practices to minimize system-wide environmental impacts.
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Firm self-regulation through international certifiable standards: determinants of symbolic versus substantive implementation
Petra Christmann,Glen Taylor +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical analysis shows that ISO-certified firms in China strategically select their level of compliance depending on customer preferences, customer monitoring, and expected sanctions by customers.
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Environmental management systems and green supply chain management: complements for sustainability?
Abstract: Some researchers question the legitimacy of EMSs since organizations can claim to have one when in fact they make no attempt to reduce their environmental harm. In instances where EMSs enhance an organization's environmental performance, critics argue that improvements are likely to occur within the organization's operational boundaries rather than being extended throughout the supply chain. However, previous research suggests that the organizational capabilities required to adopt an EMS may facilitate GSCM implementation and the institutional pressures to adopt both management practices are similar. Consequently, EMS adopters may have a greater propensity to expand their focus beyond their organizational boundaries and utilize GSCM practices to minimize system-wide environmental impacts. This research illuminates the debate by empirically evaluating the relationship between EMS and GSCM practices. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.
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TL;DR: In his book Culture's Consequences, Geert Hofstede proposed four dimensions on which the differences among national cultures can be understood: Individualism, Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance and Masculinity as mentioned in this paper.
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The Market for “Lemons”: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism
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Job Market Signaling
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The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration
Sanford J. Grossman,Oliver Hart +1 more
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