Green Clubs
Collective Action and Voluntary Environmental Programs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232941 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Potoski (0000-0003-2011-338X, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106;), Aseem Prakash (0000-0002-7364-0135, University of Washington) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 399-419 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-polisci-032211-211224 |
| OpenAlex | W3122227365 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 107 |
Voluntary environmental programs (VEPs) are institutions that encourage participating actors to produce environmental public goods beyond the requirements of government law. Drawing on the club approach to the study of VEPs, we identify four collective action challenges facing VEPs. First, sponsoring actors must be motivated to invest resources to create a VEP despite incentives to free ride on the efforts of others. Second, VEPs need to be designed to offer firms sufficient excludable incentives to join them. Third, VEPs need monitoring and enforcement mechanisms to ensure that participants adhere to program obligations and do not free ride on the efforts of other participants. Fourth, VEPs and their sponsors need to motivate stakeholders to compensate firms for producing environmental public goods. The literature reveals considerable variability in how these challenges are addressed, suggesting that successful VEPs need to fit their institutional contexts
Action (physics · Business · Club · Collective action · Economics · Enforcement · Excludability · Free riding · Government (linguistics · Incentive · Management · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public good · Public relations · Turnover · Environmental Sustainability in Business · Law · Regulation and Compliance Studies · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
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Non-state governance and climate policy
Transnational corporations and the challenge of biosphere stewardship
Climate Action Through Governance Chains
A club perspective of sustainability certification schemes in the tourism and hospitality industry
The effects of spillover from the employee pro-environmental behaviour to the employee innovative behaviour through self-efficacy and moderated by employee environmental awareness
Sustainable AI needs to accept economic reality
Voluntary commitments made by the world’s largest companies focus on recycling and packaging over other actions to address the plastics crisis
The Blue Acceleration
Water clubs
What are we doing here? Analyzing fifteen years of energy scholarship and proposing a social science research agenda
A risk framework for optimising policies for deep decarbonisation technologies
Putting Humpty Together Again
Governance of working landscapes
Can social norm interventions promote voluntary pro environmental action
The influence of company sourcing patterns on the adoption and effectiveness of zero-deforestation commitments in Brazil’s soy supply chain
Transnational Climate Governance Initiatives
Collective Reputations Affect Donations to Nonprofits
Opening the black box between governance and management
Regulating lobbying through voluntary transparency clubs
Translocal climate club as a wall of fame? A panel study on the US cities’ membership in the Global Covenant of Mayors, 2014–2024
The French duty of vigilance law
Institutional design of ecolabels
Promoting Policy Implementation Through Demonstration Program Construction
A place‐based approach to understanding firms' voluntary environmental engagement
Greenwashing and public demand for government regulation
Relational Work and its Pitfalls
To see and be seen
Does Private Regulation Preempt Public Regulation
The Commons in the New Millennium
Governing the Commons
Greening the Firm
The Voluntary Environmentalists
The Theory of Externalities, Public Goods, and Club Goods
The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy
Voluntary Programs
Smart Regulation
Responsive Regulation
Why Do Firms Volunteer to Exceed Environmental Regulations? Understanding Participation in EPA's 33/50 Program
Industry Self-Regulation Without Sanctions
Organizational responses to environmental demands
Incentives for environmental self-regulation and implications for environmental performance
Self‐Regulation and Social Welfare
EPA's Voluntary 33/50 Program
The emergence and effectiveness of the Marine Stewardship Council
Reputation and corporate strategy
What Improves Environmental Compliance? Evidence from Mexican Industry
The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Advocacy Organizations and Collective Action
American Environmental Policy
The Logic of Collective Action
The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure
Of Rule and Revenue
Expert‐Based Information and Policy Subsystems
The Smoke of Great Cities
The Administrative Law of Global Private-Public Regulation
Covenants with weak swords
Spillover Effects of Voluntary Environmental Programs on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Adversarial Legalism and American Government
Motivation for Compliance with Environmental Regulations
Club theory
Greener and cleaner? The signaling accuracy of U.S. voluntary environmental programs
A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures
An Economic Theory of Clubs
The Economic Theory of Clubs
Green by Choice? Cross-National Variations in Firms' Responses to EMS-Based Environmental Regimes
Job Market Signaling
Setting International Standards
Reputation and Cooperation in Voluntary Exchanges
Governance without a state
From norms to programs
Incentivizing self‐regulation
Which Types of Environmental Management Systems Are Related to Greater Environmental Improvements
The Regulation Dilemma
The Diffusion of Voluntary International Management Standards
Is Greener Whiter? Voluntary Environmental Performance of Western Ski Areas
Sponsorship Matters
Does the ‘California effect’ operate across borders? Trading- and investing-up in automobile emission standards
Investing Up
Corporate Environmentalism, Regulatory Reform, and Industry Self‐Regulation
Noncompliance in Environmental Reporting
Watershed Partnerships and the Emergence of Collective Action Institutions
Racing to the Bottom? Trade, Environmental Governance, and ISO 14001
Development of Communitarian Regulation in the Chemical Industry
The Iron Cage Revisited
Globalization and Commitment in Corporate Social Responsibility
Voluntary environmental governance arrangements
Multi-stakeholder governance and voluntary programme interactions
Substantive and Reflexive Elements in Modern Law
Signaling Environmental Stewardship in the Shadow of Weak Governance
Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship
Cooperative Regulatory Enforcement and the Politics of Administrative Effectiveness
A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action
Does Monitoring Improve Labor Standards? Lessons from Nike
A procedural approach to the design of voluntary clubs
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,58 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |