The drivers for contractors' green innovation: an industry perspective

GY Qi, LY Shen, SX Zeng, OJ Jorge - Journal of cleaner production, 2010 - Elsevier
In the construction industry, contractors have been facing the challenge to meet the
emerging needs related to the reduction of environmental impacts during the construction …

Under the tip of the iceberg: Absorptive capacity, environmental strategy, and competitive advantage

M Delmas, VH Hoffmann, M Kuss - Business & Society, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Although existing research evaluates how the adoption of proactive environmental
strategies affects corporate performance, there is little understanding of the organizational …

Integrative frontiers in environmental policy theory and research

MT Niles, M Lubell - Policy Studies Journal, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental policy research continues to advance toward a more Kuhnian “normal”
science where theory and empirical tools are brought to bear on real‐world policy systems …

Motivations and barriers to corporate environmental management

D Ervin, JJ Wu, M Khanna, C Jones… - Business Strategy and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper integrates two conceptual frameworks, utility maximization and institutional
theory, to analyze voluntary corporate environmental management. The utility maximization …

Environmental management systems and technological environmental innovations: Exploring the causal relationship

A Ziegler, JS Nogareda - Research Policy, 2009 - Elsevier
Within the discussion of voluntary proactive approaches to environmental protection, former
micro-econometric studies analyze the causal effect of the adoption of environmental …

Why do emerging market firms engage in voluntary environmental management practices? A strategic choice perspective

E Tatoglu, JG Frynas, E Bayraktar… - British Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we investigate firms' decisions to engage in voluntary environmental
management (VEM) practices within an emerging market context. Drawing on the strategic …

Determinants of the quality of corporate carbon management systems: An international study

L Luo, Q Tang - The International Journal of Accounting, 2016 - Elsevier
Firms' carbon management systems play a key role in controlling greenhouse gas
emissions, but very little research has focused on determinants of carbon management …

What makes businesses commit to nature conservation?

MS Krause, N Droste, B Matzdorf - Business Strategy and the …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
To halt the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, various actors including companies
need to engage, but it is not yet clear what drives voluntary business commitments. We …

Toward a place‐based understanding of business sustainability: The role of green competitors and green locales in firms' voluntary environmental engagement

J DeBoer, R Panwar, J Rivera - Business Strategy and the …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Management research has extensively considered who, what, when, why, which and how
aspects pertaining to firms' voluntary environmental practices, yet the where aspect, which …

ISO and OHSAS certifications: How stakeholders affect corporate decisions on sustainability

G Qi, S Zeng, H Yin, H Lin - Management Decision, 2013 - emerald.com
Purpose–This research aims to empirically investigate the influence of stakeholders on the
corporate decision of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001 certifications and how that …