This article contributes to the emerging stream of micro-institutional research, which zooms
in on the internal organizational processes that are responsible for organizations' differential …

Purpose Contemporary frameworks on institutional theory and corporate environmentalism
observe that institutional fields positively influence a firm's environmental response in the …

Through their activities, organizations have an impact upon the natural environment. When
organizational members and stakeholders perceive this impact as problematic …

A broad literature has emerged over the past decades demonstrating that firms'
environmental strategies and practices are influenced by stakeholders and institutional …

This article examines the diffusion of corporate environmental practice in the context of field-
level dynamics. It builds a conceptual model that makes links among (a) the complex …

Institutional theory argues that conformity to institutional pressure enhances the survival
probability of organizations. Two key limitations of institutional theory have been proposed in …

Organizations are continually confronted by new regulatory pressures, but there is debate as
to how much freedom organizations have to select a strategic response to such pressures …

This article combines new and old institutionalism to explain differences in organizational
strategies. We propose that differences in the influence of corporate departments lead their …

This study measured changes in the constituency of an organizational field centered around
the issue of corporate environmentalism in the period 1960–93, correlating those changes …

Companies do not respond identically when faced with similar environmental issues,
confounding research that looks only at external influences on corporate environmental …