Business and public policy : responses to environmental and social protection processes / Jorge E. Rivera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rivera, Jorge E., author.

Series:

Business, value creation, and society.

Business, value creation and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business.

Industries--Social aspects.

Industries.

Industries--Environmental aspects.

Political planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 249 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Business & Public Policy

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It is increasingly common for businesses to face public policies and government regulation that demand some form of environmental or social protection. These protective public policies have grown in number, complexity, and stringency over the last few decades, not only in industrialized countries but also in the developing world. In this 2010 book, Jorge Rivera presents a theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between protective public policies and business compliance. This framework explains different levels of business compliance in terms of three different factors: the link between the stages of protective public policies and different levels of business resistance, the effect of country context, and the effect of firm-level characteristics. The second part of the book supports and elaborates on this framework by presenting empirical studies that examine two voluntary environmental programs: the US ski industry's Sustainable Slopes Program and the Certification for Sustainable Tourism in Costa Rica.

Contents:

Introduction

Business responses to the protective policy process in the US

Country context and the protective policy process-business response relationship

Firm-level characteristics and business responses to environmental/social protection demands

Is greener whiter? Resistance strategies by the US ski industry

Is greener whiter yet? Resistance or beyond-compliance by the US ski industry

Institutional pressures and proactive environmental protection: evidence from the Costa Rican hotel industry

Chief executive officers and proactive environmental protection : evidence from the Costa Rican hotel industry

Certified beyond-compliance and competitive advantage in developing countries

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-107-21229-4

1-282-72346-4

9786612723469

0-511-77595-4

0-511-77671-3

0-511-77413-3

0-511-77306-4

0-511-77707-8

0-511-77519-9

OCLC:

651599431