What Characteristics Do the Firms Have That Go Beyond Compliance with Regulation in Environmental Protection? A Multiple Discriminant Analysis

Why Do Firms Adopt ‘beyond-compliance’ Environmental Policies?

This paper examines why firms selectively adopt ‘beyond-compliance’ environmental policies. It argues that existing explanations based on factors external to firms are under-specified and a focus on internal dynamics is also required. It draws insights from institutional theory, corporate social performance perspective, and stakeholder theory and relates them to internal processes. Beyond-compl...

Social License and Environment Protection: Why Businesses Go Beyond Compliance

Community singing: what does that have to do with health?

Arts and health is an emerging multidisciplinary area of research, policy, and practice. It includes a variety of ways in which the arts contribute to health, well-being, and health care practice across a range of contexts (1) . We believe that the time has arrived to conduct a project where art and health are aligned with concepts drawn from performing arts (music and singing, and singing perf...

Environmental Compliance by Firms in the Manufacturing Sector in Mexico

To date, little empirical evidence exists to help regulators understand why some firms comply even when there is little financial incentive to do so and others continually violate environmental regulations. This paper examines data on compliance with environmental regulations within the manufacturing sector in Mexico. The probability of complying depends, among other factors, on the kind of man...

Analysis of Firm Compliance with Multiple Environmental Regulations

When a firm is regulated under multiple environmental programs, its compliance behavior under these programs can be complementary or substituting—regulations of one program either increase or decrease firm compliance with other programs. This paper examines the existence and the nature of such cross program effects. A panel data model with panel corrected standard error (PCSE) is estimated usin...