Organizations, Policy, and the Natural Environment: Institutional and Strategic Perspectives - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0804741956 ISBN 13: 9780804741958

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2002

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This book brings together emerging perspectives from organization theory and management, environmental sociology, international regime studies, and the social studies of science and technology to provide a starting point for discipline-based studies of environmental policy and corporate environmental behavior. Reflecting the book’s theoretical and empirical focus, the audience is two-fold: organizational scholars working within the institutional tradition, and environmental scholars interested in management and policy. Together this mix forms a creative synthesis for both sets of readers, analyzing how environmental policy and organizational practices are shaped, spread and contested.

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Andrew J. Hoffman is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Boston University School of Management. He is the author of From Heresy to Dogma (Stanford, 2001), and Competitive Environmental Strategy: A Guide to the Changing Business Landscape, and the editor of Global Climate Change: A Senior Level Dialogue. Marc J. Ventresca University Lecturer in Strategy and Organisation at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He is the editor (with Michael Lounsbury) of Social Structure and Organization Revisited.

Andrew J. Hoffman is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Boston University School of Management. He is the author of From Heresy to Dogma (Stanford, 2001), and Competitive Environmental Strategy: A Guide to the Changing Business Landscape, and the editor of Global Climate Change: A Senior Level Dialogue. Marc J. Ventresca University Lecturer in Strategy and Organisation at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He is the editor (with Michael Lounsbury) of Social Structure and Organization Revisited.

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“Deftly employing the tools of institutionary theory, the authors in this edited collection link natural and organizational environments in a variety of new and challenging ways. Theoretically rich and analytically sophisticated, Organizations, Policy and the Natural Environment is a veritable treasure trove of useful approaches and strategies that should appeal to researchers and practitioners in organizational behavior, management studies, environmental sociology and public administration.”—John Hannigan, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto and author of Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective
“Organizations, Policy, and the Natural Environment is a much welcomed and timely contribution to the growing body of literature on corporate environmentalism and environmental policy. Not only do the contributors to this volume clearly demonstrate the applicability of institutional theories of organization in analyzing environmental issues, they use environmental issues to extend theory in organizational sociology and strategy. Positioned at the intersection of environmental sociology, environmental policy studies and management, and organization theory, this book provides insights relevant and important for audiences in all these fields.”—Susse George, Department of Organization and Industrial Sociology, Copenhagen Business School

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This book brings together emerging perspectives from organization theory and management, environmental sociology, international regime studies, and the social studies of science and technology to provide a starting point for discipline-based studies of environmental policy and corporate environmental behavior. Reflecting the book s theoretical and empirical focus, the audience is two-fold: organizational scholars working within the institutional tradition, and environmental scholars interested in management and policy. Together this mix forms a creative synthesis for both sets of readers, analyzing how environmental policy and organizational practices are shaped, spread and contested.

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ORGANIZATIONS, POLICY, AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

Institutional and Strategic Perspectives

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Copyright © 2002 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
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ISBN: 978-0-8047-4195-8

Contents

Tables..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ixFigures.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................xiForeword John W. Meyer.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................xiiiPreface.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................xixAbout the Contributors..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................xxviiChapter 1 Introduction Andrew J. Hoffman and Marc J. Ventresca.........................................................................................................................................................................................1PART I INSTITUTIONAL ORIGINS: COMPETING FRAMEWORKS AND LOGICSChapter 2 The Origins Question: Building Global Institutions to Protect Nature David John Frank........................................................................................................................................................41Chapter 3 Complications in Compliance: Variation in Environmental Enforcement in British Columbia's Lower Fraser Basin, 1985-1996 P. Devereaux Jennings, Paul A. Zandbergen, and Martin L. Martens.....................................................57Chapter 4 The Emergence of Environmental Conflict Resolution: Subversive Stories and the Construction of Collective Action Frames and Organizational Fields Calvin Morrill and Jason Owen-Smith........................................................90Chapter 5 Pollution Futures: Commensuration, Commodification, and the Market for Air Peter Levin and Wendy Nelson Espeland.............................................................................................................................119PART II BEYOND ISOMORPHISM: STRUCTURAL VARIATION AND COLLECTIVE RATIONALITYChapter 6 Coercion Breeds Variation: The Differential Impact of Isomorphic Pressures on Environmental Strategies Mark B. Milstein, Stuart L. Hart, and Anne S. York....................................................................................151Chapter 7 Heterogeneity and Change in Environmental Strategy: Technological and Political Responses to Climate Change in the Global Automobile Industry David L. Levy and Sandra Rothenberg............................................................173Chapter 8 The Institutionalization of Voluntary Organizational Greening and the Ideals of Environmentalism: Lessons About Official Culture from Symbolic Organization Theory Linda C. Forbes and John M. Jermier.......................................194Chapter 9 Decoupling in the Environmental Arena: The Case of Environmental Impact Assessments Ann Hironaka and Evan Schofer............................................................................................................................214PART III INSTITUTIONAL PROCESSES OF NEGOTIATION AND NARRATIVEChapter 10 Institutions as Barriers and Enablers to Negotiated Agreements: Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Plum Creek Habitat Conservation Plan John G. Troast Jr., Andrew J. Hoffman, Hannah C. Riley, and Max H. Bazerman.....................235Chapter 11 Changing Shades of Green: Coupling and Decoupling in Monsanto's Environmental Orientations, 1991-1997 M. Anjali Sastry, Jeffrey W. Bernicke, and Stuart L. Hart.............................................................................262Chapter 12 Institutional Evolution: The Case of the Semiconductor Industry Voluntary PFC Emissions Reduction Agreements Jennifer A. Howard-Grenville...................................................................................................291PART IV FIELD-LEVEL ANALYSESChapter 13 Interpretations of Institutions: The Case of Recycled Newsprint Pratima Bansal and Wendy J. Penner..........................................................................................................................................311Chapter 14 Policy Discourse, Logics, and Practice Standards: Centralizing the Solid-Waste Management Field Michael Lounsbury, Heather Geraci, and Ronit Waismel-Manor..................................................................................327Chapter 15 The Institutional Context of Environmental Voluntary Agreements Magali Delmas and Ann Terlaak...............................................................................................................................................346PART V GOVERNANCE AND REGULATORY STRUCTURESChapter 16 Open-Sourcing Environmental Regulation: How to Make Firms Compete for the Natural Environment Yiorgos Mylonadis.............................................................................................................................369Chapter 17 Strategic Responses to the Reputation Commons Problem Andrew A. King, Michael J. Lenox, and Michael L. Barnett..............................................................................................................................393Chapter 18 International Standardization and Global Governance: The Spread of Quality and Environmental Management Standards Peter J. Mendel...........................................................................................................407PART VI CLOSING COMMENTARYChapter 19 Environmental Management: New Opportunities for Institutional Theory John R. Ehrenfeld......................................................................................................................................................435Chapter 20 Organizations and the Natural Environment: Evolving Models W. Richard Scott.................................................................................................................................................................453Index...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................465

Chapter One

INTRODUCTION

Andrew J. Hoffman and Marc J. Ventresca

Organizations, Policy, and the Natural Environment recasts standard approaches to corporate environmentalism and environmental policy studies in light of recent developments in organization theory and institutional analysis. We draw on the empirical case of the natural environment to redirect theoretical emphases in institutional theory and highlight organizational field-level analysis and the linkage between social meaning and social structures within policy worlds. The book introduces a new category of research questions and approaches them...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0804741956
• ISBN 13: 9780804741958
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 526
• Herausgeber: Hoffman Andrew J., Ventresca Marc J.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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