Sources of Corporate Environmental Performance

Corporate governance and environmental performance and disclosures

Regulatory Externalities as a Driver of Corporate Environmental Performance

We hypothesize that regulatory externalities (i.e., regulations in jurisdictions beyond where a firm operates) can influence a firm’s environmental behavior. Specifically, we predict that firms will be sensitive to regulations both in neighboring jurisdictions and in jurisdictions where peer firms operate. By examining the use of renewable-generating technologies in the U.S. electrical utility ...

Measuring Corporate Environmental Performance: the Trade-Offs of Sustainability Ratings

Socially responsible investing (SRI) represents an investment process that refl ects environmental and social preferences. The fi nancial industry is in a unique position to move corporations towards corporate sustainability. However, there is often little transparency regarding the metrics used to evaluate corporate social and environmental performance and the trade-offs involved in the evalua...

Sustainability: Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance Performance in Czech SMEs

The paper focuses on environmental, social and corporate governance performance in relation to business sustainability in small and medium enterprises in the Czech Republic. Corporate Governance is understood as a key element when achieving economic performance as well as growth enhancing the investors’ trust. It also makes it possible to create structures supporting the determination, checking...

How to reconcile environmental and economic performance to improve corporate sustainability: corporate environmental strategies in the European paper industry.

This paper discusses the relationship between environmental and economic performance and the influence of corporate strategies with regard to sustainability and the environment. After formulating a theoretical model, results are reported from an empirical analysis of the European paper manufacturing industry. New data are used to test hypotheses derived from the theoretical model, using environ...