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Book SynopsisThis in-depth study of fourteen pulp manufacturing mills in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand provides the most extensive and systematic empirical examination, to date, of the reasons firms achieve the levels of environmental performance that they do.
Trade Review"This innovative and sophisticated study represents a major contribution to the study of corporate environmental performance . The authors persuasively demonstrate how the 'greening of industry' is affected by a complex interaction of regulatory requirements, community pressures, economic constraints and managerial styles. This creative effort to integrate the study of environmental regulation and corporate environmentalism significantly enriches our understanding of the dynamics of both government regulation and environmental management."—David Vogel, Professor, Department of Political Science, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
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Shades of Green is a valuable, finely written investigation of determinants of the varying degree to which corporations comply—or even over-comply—with environmental regulations."—Francine Sanders Romero, Department of Public Administration, University of Texas at San Antonio
Table of ContentsContents abbreviations---ix the authors---xi 1 Introduction---1 2 Beyond-Compliance Corporate Environmental Perform- ance: Theory and Evidence---20 3 The License to Operate and Corporate Environmental Performance---41 4 The License to Operate and Interfirm Differences---75 5 Environmental Management Style and Corporate Environmental Performance---95 6 Conclusion---135 notes---159 references---189 index---207 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Wood-pulp industry Environmental aspects, Wood-pulp industry Law and legislation
