Voluntary environmental programs: assessing their effectiveness

JC Borck, C Coglianese - Annual Review of Environment and …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Voluntary environmental programs (VEPs) seek to improve the environment by encouraging,
rather than mandating, businesses and other organizations to adopt environmentally …

Integrating eco‐innovations and stakeholder engagement for sustainable development and a social license to operate

AK Provasnek, A Sentic… - … Social Responsibility and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Eco‐innovations of corporations are seen to contribute to the mitigation of negative impacts
on the natural environment. However, despite environmental gains, some eco‐innovations …

Defining CSR: Problems and solutions

B Sheehy - Journal of business ethics, 2015 - Springer
The ubiquity of the term CSR threatens its carrying any distinctive meaning. Despite its long
history no consensus has been developed among the industry participants, academics or …

Social license to operate: Legitimacy by another name?

J Gehman, LM Lefsrud, S Fast - Canadian Public …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Drunks are accorded great social license in Oaxacan villages. They may shout insults,
intrude uninvited into social gatherings, and behave in other normally unacceptable …

Modeling corporate sustainability strategy

A Lloret - Journal of Business Research, 2016 - Elsevier
This study uses empirical information to demonstrate the analysis of a corporate
sustainability model and presents five leading Mexican companies as illustrative examples …

Business transition management: exploring a new role for business in sustainability transitions

D Loorbach, K Wijsman - Journal of cleaner production, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper explores the co-evolution between societal sustainability transitions and
fundamental shifts within individuals businesses. We argue that there is an emergent trend …

Strengthening international regulation through transnational new governance: Overcoming the orchestration deficit

KW Abbott, D Snidal - The spectrum of international institutions, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
A new kind of international regulatory system is spontaneously arising out of the failure of
international “Old Governance”(ie, treaties and intergovernmental organizations (IGOs)) to …

When is there a sustainability case for CSR? Pathways to environmental and social performance improvements

M Halme, J Rintamäki, JS Knudsen… - Business & …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Little is known about when corporate social responsibility (CSR) leads to a sustainability
case (ie, to improvements in environmental and social performance). Building on various …

Making self-regulation more than merely symbolic: The critical role of the legal environment

JL Short, MW Toffel - Administrative Science Quarterly, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Using data from a sample of US industrial facilities subject to the federal Clean Air Act from
1993 to 2003, this article theorizes and tests the conditions under which organizations' …

Shale gas policy in the United Kingdom: An argumentative discourse analysis

M Cotton, I Rattle, J Van Alstine - Energy Policy, 2014 - Elsevier
Shale gas has become an energy policy priority in the United Kingdom in light of profitable
extraction activities in the United States. Since 2012 the Coalition Government has created …