Business responses to environmental and social protection policies: toward a framework for analysis

Policy Sciences - Tập 42 Số 1 - Trang 3-32 - 2009
Rivera, Jorge1, Oetzel, Jennifer2, deLeon, Peter3, Starik, Mark1
1Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy, School of Business, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
2Department of International Business, School of Business, American University, Washington, DC, USA
3School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO, USA

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This conceptual paper seeks to advance neo-institutional work that has traditionally portrayed environmental and social protection policies as constraints followed by businesses. Drawing from the policy sciences literature, we propose that in the United States, businesses tend to show increasing resistance as the protective policy process moves from initiation to selection and growing cooperation thereafter. Most importantly, we also contribute to the neo-institutional theory literature by positing that this inverted U-shaped policy process–business response relationship proposed for the U.S. context may be moderated by variations in the level of democracy, system of interest representation, regulatory approach, and national income.

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