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Cognitive and Institutional Barriers to New Forms of Cooperation on Environmental Protection: Insights from Project Xl and Habitat Conservation Plans
(2001-10)
Many perceive the predominantly command-and-control structure of regulatory policy to be overly restrictive and inefficient in achieving our emerging environmental goals. In response, the U.S. government has introduced ...
Linking Organizational and Field Level Analyses: The Diffusion of Corporate Environmental Practice
(2001-03)
This paper examines the diffusion of corporate environmental practice in the context of field level dynamics. It builds a conceptual model that makes links between (1) the complex constituency of the institutional field ...
Barriers to Resolution in Ideologically Based Negotiations: The Role of Values and Institutions
(2001-03)
While traditional behavioral decision theory as applied to negotiation sheds light on some of the barriers encountered in negotiations, it does not fully account for many of the difficulties and failures to reach settlement ...
Institutional Evolution and Change: Environmentalism and the Us Chemical Industry
(2000-02)
This paper empirically measures changes in the constituency of an organizational field centered around the issue of corporate environmentalism from 1960 to 1993, and correlates those changes with the evolving institutions ...
Integrating Environmental and Social Issues into Corporate Practice
(2000-03)
The concept of environmental management has clearly entered the reality of business practice. And equally clearly, the term sustainable development has entered the lexicon of corporate dialogue. But, integration of the ...
Ranks and Rivals: A Theory of Competition
(Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2006)
Social comparison theories typically assume a comparable degree of competition between commensurate rivals on a mutually important dimension. In contrast, however, the following set of studies reveals that the degree of ...
Shades of Green
(2008-11)
A schism seems to be emerging between two camps: the dark greens and the bright greens. The dark green ENGOs seek radical social change to solve environmental problems, often by confronting corporations. The bright green ...
Not All Events are Attended Equally: Toward a Middle-Range Theory of Industry Attention to External Events
(2001-03)
This paper builds on prior theory and research on attention and identity to examine whether and how industries publicly attend to external events. Events are critical triggers of institutional transformation and industry ...
Sources of Environmentally Destructive Behavior: Individual, Organizational and Institutional Perspectives
(2000-02)
Our specific focus is a multi-level analysis of the destructiveness of taken-for-granted belief and behavior. First, we consider how individuals are guided in their perception of environmental problems through cognitive ...