Stakeholders and Environmental Management Practices: an Institutional Framework
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Despite burgeoning research on companies’ environmental strategies and environmental management practices, it remains unclear why some firms adopt environmental management practices beyond regulatory compliance. This paper leverages institutional theory by proposing that stakeholders – including governments, regulators, customers, competitors, community and environmental interest groups, and industry associations – impose coercive and normative pressures on firms. However, the way in which managers perceive and act upon these pressures at the plant level depends upon plantand parent-company-specific factors, including their track record of environmental performance, the competitive position of the parent company and the organizational structure STAKEHOLDERS AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES: AN INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK
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