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BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
卷 27, 期 3, 页码 415-435出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bse.2007
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environmental policy; climate change act and GHG emissions; sustainable development and global reporting initiative; stakeholder engagement; corporate governance; institutional theory
We investigate the effects of environmental policy (Climate Change Act - CCA), sustainable development frameworks (Global Reporting Initiative - GRI; UN Global Compact - UNGC) and corporate governance (CG) mechanisms on environmental performance (carbon reduction initiatives - CRIs; actual carbon performance - GHG emissions) of UK listed firms. We use the generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation technique to analyse data consisting of 2245 UK firm-year observations over the 2002-2014 period. First, we find that the CCA has a positive effect on CRIs, and this effect is stronger in better-governed firms. Second, we find that the GRI-based framework is positively associated with CRIs. Third, we find that firms with poor CG structures have lower actual carbon performance compared with their better-governed counterparts. Overall, our evidence suggests that firms can symbolically conform to environmental policy (CCA) and sustainable development frameworks (GRI, UNGC) by engaging in CRIs without necessarily improving actual environmental performance (GHG emissions) substantively. Copyright (c) 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment
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