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Business and Public Policy Jorge E. Rivera (Associate Professor, George Washington University, Washington DC)

Business and Public Policy By Jorge E. Rivera (Associate Professor, George Washington University, Washington DC)

Business and Public Policy by Jorge E. Rivera (Associate Professor, George Washington University, Washington DC)

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It is increasingly common for businesses to face public policies and government regulation that demand some form of environmental or social protection. In this 2010 book, Jorge Rivera presents a new theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between protective public policies and business compliance.

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Business and Public Policy: Responses to Environmental and Social Protection Processes by Jorge E. Rivera (Associate Professor, George Washington University, Washington DC)

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.

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Review of the hardback: 'Jorge Rivera offers an ambitious and welcome contribution to the literature on corporate environmentalism. Where most academic work in this area focuses on industrialized nations, Rivera's book shifts the lens towards the developing world. He provides careful analysis with both breadth - how variations in specific country characteristics moderate corporate response to public policies - and depth - how firm level characteristics vary the type of response. Further, he blends theoretically grounded analysis in institutional theory and policy science with careful empirical analysis of voluntary corporate programs in the US and Costa Rica. The result is a thorough and rigorous piece of work that should be of interest to scholars in this rapidly growing domain of study.' Andrew J. Hoffman, Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan
Review of the hardback: 'For anyone interested in understanding the dynamics of how and why firms the world over have softened their opposition to environmental regulatory demands and adopted more conciliatory stands, this book is a must. It is not just about how businesses participate in the public policy process. It is about how they have internalized public policy and other pressures to upgrade their environmental performance. It provides rigorous theoretical and empirical answers to important questions such as: which firms are the better environmental performers; what drives their environmental performance; and does their environmental performance yield benefits to these companies.' Alfred Marcus, Edson Spencer Professor of Strategy and Technological Leadership, University of Minnesota

About Jorge E. Rivera (Associate Professor, George Washington University, Washington DC)

Jorge E. Rivera is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy at George Washington University School of Business. His research focuses on the relationship between public policy and business strategies. He has published more than 30 manuscripts and his work received Best Paper Awards from the Academy of Management's Organizations and Natural Environment Division in 2001 and the Policy Sciences Society in 2003. His journal articles have also been mentioned in more than 30 news stories by national and international newspapers including the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. In 2010 one of his publications, co-authored with Peter deLeon, examining the voluntary environmental behavior of the US ski industry, was ranked as the most cited manuscript published in the Policy Studies Journal between 2004 and 2009. He is also the author of Voluntary Environmental Programs: A Policy Perspective (co-edited with Peter deLeon) by Lexington Press. In 2009, Professor Rivera was appointed as an Associate Editor of the journals Policy Sciences and Business and Society. He is also Chair-elect of the Organizations and the Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management.

Table of Contents

List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Publication acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Business responses to the protective policy process in the US; 3. Country context and the protective policy process-business response relationship; 4. Firm level characteristics and business responses to environmental/social protection demands; 5. Is greener whiter? Resistance strategies by the US ski industry; 6. Is greener whiter yet? Resistance or beyond compliance by the US ski industry?; 7. Institutional pressures and proactive environmental protection: evidence from the Costa Rican hotel industry; 8. Chief executive officers and proactive environmental protection: evidence from the Costa Rican hotel industry; 9. Certified beyond compliance and competitive advantage in developing countries; 10. Conclusion; References; Index.

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NPB9780521897815
9780521897815
0521897815
Business and Public Policy: Responses to Environmental and Social Protection Processes by Jorge E. Rivera (Associate Professor, George Washington University, Washington DC)
Jorge E. Rivera (Associate Professor, George Washington University, Washington DC)
Business, Value Creation, and Society
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Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2010-08-05
266
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