Corporations at climate crossroads : multilevel governance, public policy, and global climate action / Lily Hsueh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hsueh, Lily, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social responsibility of business.

Climate change mitigation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 509 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Multilevel governance, public policy, and global climate action

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2025].

Summary:

"How corporations and governance can act together effectively in the urgent global call for climate action.With climate risks growing, climate action facing political headwinds in many countries, and international cooperation increasingly challenged, Lily Hsueh’s Corporations at Climate Crossroads illuminates how and under what conditions the world’s largest corporations have taken proactive action on climate change during the years leading up to and after the Paris Agreement.Drawing on insights from economics, political science, and management, the author uncovers how corporations and their leaders are key players in a nested structure of climate change governance. Hsueh shows that corporate leaders' climate actions are shaped by bottom-up and top-down institutions and incentives involving firm, regulatory, and global governance. To navigate uncertainty, corporate responses to the climate challenge are therefore an interplay of internal firm leadership, complementary capabilities in adjacent areas, and strategic and proactive engagement with regulatory process and global governance. Sophisticated large-N statistical analyses of global businesses’ climate mitigation and performance from 2011 to 2020 and illustrative company case studies substantiate the demand for, and supply of, global businesses’ climate mitigation, across sectors, and in developed and developing countries."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I Introduction, Framework, Firm-Level Drivers

1 The Supply and Demand of Corporate Climate Action

2 Theory of Multilevel Governance Drivers of Corporate Self-Regulation on Climate Change

3 Opening Up the Firm: Internal Management and Organizational Drivers

II Corporate Climate Action and Cross-Level Governance Interactions

4 Global Firms’ Interactions with Domestic Regulation and Global Governance

5 The US Case: Regulatory Pressure and the Clean Power Plan

6 An Interplay of Domestic and Global Governance: Global Firms’ Learning and Norming in the UN Global Compact

III Carbon Footprints, Sectoral and Regional Variations, and Conclusion

7 Linking Global Firms’ Corporate Climate Action and Carbon Footprints

8 Consumer-Facing and Carbon-Intensive Sectors: A Race to the Top or Bottom?

9 Developed and Developing Countries: What Drives Differences in Corporate Climate Action?

10 All-Hands-on-Deck: What Happens When Markets and Governments Fail?

Appendix 1 Explanation of Climate Disclosure and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data

Appendix 2 Description of Global Sustainable Business and Climate Action Database: Variables, Construction, and Operationalization

Appendix 3 Explanation of Data, Models, and Robustness Checks, Chapter 3

Appendix 4 Explanation of Data, Models, and Robustness Checks, Chapter 4

Appendix 5 Explanation of Models and Robustness Checks, Chapter 5

Appendix 6 Explanation of Data and Robustness Checks, Chapter 6

Appendix 7 Explanation of Models and Robustness Checks, Chapter 7

Appendix 8 Explanation of Data and Robustness Checks, Chapters 8 and 9

Appendix 9 Field Research and Interviews.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-489) and index.

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ISBN:

0-262-38446-9

0-262-38447-7

OCLC:

1510780910