Differentiated Customer Pressures and Environmental Policies in China

Wu, Jie

doi:10.1002/bse.1812

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“…Moreover, our findings add to the current literature on the relationship between stakeholders and firm strategy, which was not well developed in emerging countries (Wu, ). Likewise, although this study was conducted in European countries, the model was not established to inform only about European environmental conditions.…”

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An integral model for the implementation of environmental policy strategy

Rivera

2019

Bus Strat Env

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This article responds to demands for a more in-depth study on how to implement an environmental policy strategy (EPS). Following the strategic choice framework, this study seeks to address this issue by testing a theoretical model of several managerial and organisational variables associated with a firm's EPS. The managerial variables examined include managers' perceptions of environmental pressures, managers' consciousness of environmental problems, and managers' perceptions of the potential benefits associated with the implementation of an EPS. The organisational variables that are investigated relate to the structure, systems, and processes of the representative organisations. Control variables include the firm's industrial sector, its country of origin, its size, and its international character. A model based on structural equations with the weighted least squares estimation method is used to test the hypotheses in a large sample of firms. The results confirm the need to consider a multidisciplinary view of the implementation of an EPS.

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Section: Theoretical Framework and Research Hypothesessupporting

confidence: 68%

An integral model for the implementation of environmental policy strategy

Rivera

2019

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“…Typically they have access to the decision makers of BFs, and they are mission driven about specific supply regions or sustainability issues. We consider them as direct contributors instead of external stakeholders (Rueda‐Manzanares et al ., ; Wu, ), because they not only create pressure (Foerstl et al ., ) for firms to take actions on supply chain sustainability, but also help BFs to determine which sustainability‐related issues (e.g. carbon, water, child labour etc.)…”

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Supplier Development Practices for Sustainability: A Multi‐Stakeholder Perspective

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Supplier development for sustainability is a critical element of sustainable supply chain management and requires extensive multi-stakeholder collaboration. This article establishes a conceptual four-stage framework to analyse the collaborative mechanisms of supplier development practices, and presents an exploratory, qualitative analysis to identify the major contributors of sustainable supplier development practices, such as NGOs, industrial associations, consulting firms etc. Based on semi-structured interviews about 63 organizations from different regions and industries, this article identifies three types of contributor: drivers, facilitators and inspectors. Instead of traditional stakeholder engagement processes, these contributors actively collaborate with buying firms and suppliers to design, implement and evaluate sustainable supplier development programs. The article then provides a matrix to describe the supply chain coverage and supplier performance of supplier development practices, given the absence or positive involvement of facilitators and inspectors. We conclude our study by suggesting future research directions as well as discussing managerial implications.

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“…Lyon et al () also showed that Chinese firms—even those that had won environmental awards—experienced negative responses to award announcements from shareholders. In China today, the benefit of a superior environmental performance is intangible and limited (Wu, ); winning‐related environmental awards may signal that costly measures have been taken to reduce pollution, resulting in a cost disadvantage over competitors (Lyon et al, ). If corporate EID that has been released is deemed relevant, it would be integrated into investors' and financial analysts' evaluations of corporate value or future profitability (Cormier & Magnan, ; Gallego‐Alvarez et al, ).…”

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Beyond symbolic and substantive: Strategic disclosure of corporate environmental information in China

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Under increasing regulatory pressure to disclose environmental impacts, corporate environmental information disclosure (EID) is becoming more prevalent. However, the motives for EID and disclosure approaches (i.e., symbolic or substantive) remain controversial. Using a sample of data for 742 listed manufacturing firms in China across 3 years, we provide evidence to show that the level of EID is significantly positively associated with a firm's advertising intensity and that firms in moderately competitive industries have a higher propensity for adopting an EID-based differentiated strategy than firms in stronger or weaker competitive industries. We also find that firms that are more sensitive to environmental issues strategically understate their environmental impact when directly facing consumers. Our results suggest that the implementation of corporate EID is strategic and that firms have strong market motives, even under regulatory pressure to demonstrate legitimacy. We discuss this study's contributions to research on EID theory and implications for strategic EID management.

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Differentiated Customer Pressures and Environmental Policies in China

Cited by 34 publications

References 59 publications

An integral model for the implementation of environmental policy strategy

An integral model for the implementation of environmental policy strategy

Supplier Development Practices for Sustainability: A Multi‐Stakeholder Perspective

Beyond symbolic and substantive: Strategic disclosure of corporate environmental information in China

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