Jorge Rivera
Biographic Data
| ID | 4392536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jorge Rivera |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jorge |
| FAMILY NAME | Rivera |
| SIGNATURE | RIVERA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0724-3705 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 182 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Business Response Strategies to Climate Change: An Integrative and Research Frontiers Outlook
As climate change (CC)-related adversity has become more evident, physical CC impacts and the need to respond to it are now a prominent topic in the political agenda in multiple countries. Accordingly, businesses have begun to adopt strategies to seeking to respond to CC. Recently, strategy and general management scholars have produced a growing number of articles examining the factors that increase the adoption of CC strategies, and, in a few ca…
The Effect of Pretrial Detention on Labor Market Outcomes
The impact of grade retention on juvenile crime
From Adaptation to Transformation: An Extended Research Agenda for Organizational Resilience to Adversity in the Natural Environment
This article aims to encourage research into how organizations can manage their resilience in response to adverse conditions stemming from the natural environment (ecological adversity). While firms may have a general ability to cope with unfavorable operating environments, adaptation to ecological adversity in particular may actually face serious limitations. Using an interdisciplinary approach that draws from resilience theory in socioecology, …
Local Community Characteristics and Cooperation for Shared Green Reputation
This article examines how basic socioeconomic and political factors are associated with higher levels of cooperation to garner a local community's shared green reputation. We analyze panel data on participation efforts in a collective voluntary environmental program, the Ecological Blue Flag Program, by the entire population of beach communities in Costa Rica between 2001 and 2009. Collective voluntary environmental programs are relatively new an…
A Matching Estimator Based on a Bilevel Optimization Problem
This paper proposes a novel matching estimator where neighbors used and weights are endogenously determined by optimizing a covariate balancing criterion. The estimator is based on finding, for each unit that needs to be matched, sets of observations such that a convex combination of them has the same covariate values as the unit needing matching or with minimized distance between them. We implement the proposed estimator with data from the Natio…
Environmental Regulations and Multinational Corporations' Foreign Market Entry Investments
In this study, we examine how differences in environmental regulation characteristics are linked to multinational corporations' (MNCs) foreign market entry (FME) investments decisions around the world. We rely on a data set with 29,303 observations from 94 European Fortune Global 500 companies operating across 77 countries during the period 2001–2007. We found that MNCs are more likely to enter countries with more certain—i.e., clearer and more s…
Do industry associations influence corporate environmentalism in developing countries? Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
Producer-Level Benefits of Sustainability Certification: Benefits of Sustainability Certification
Initiatives certifying that producers of goods and services adhere to defined environmental and social-welfare production standards are increasingly popular. According to proponents, these initiatives create financial incentives for producers to improve their environmental, social, and economic performance. We reviewed the evidence on whether these initiatives have such benefits. We identified peer-reviewed, ex post, producer-level studies in eco…
Generating twins to build weekly time use data from multiple single day OD surveys
Are Members of Business for Social Responsibility More Socially Responsible: Tashman/Rivera: Are Members of BSR More Socially Responsible
This study examines the association between corporate social performance (CSP) practices and membership in Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) between 1992 and 2006. BSR is a business association that seeks to help its members adopt enhanced CSP practices. While there is an emerging literature examining voluntary initiatives as alternative policy mechanisms to regulations, most research is focused on initiatives that emphasize environmental …
Socio-economic and geographic profiling of crime in Chile
Many empirical studies of crime assume that victims and perpetrators live in a single geographical unit, the implication being that the socio-economic characteristics of victims’ places of residence can be treated as determinants of crime. This study offers an alternative approach which consists in measuring crime by the proportion of alleged offenders in the whole population and treating the characteristics of their home communes as socio-econom…
Business responses to environmental and social protection policies: Toward a framework for analysis
Export processing zones and corporate environmental performance in emerging economies: The case of the oil, gas, and chemical sectors of Trinidad and Tobago
Voluntary Environmental Programs: A Symposium
Voluntary Environmental Programs in the United States: Whose Interests are Served
The appeal of voluntary environmental programs (VEPs) lies in their promise to mutually serve government, industry, and environmental interests because they can reduce administrative burdens, provide flexibility to decide how to implement environmental improvements, and work toward superior environmental performance. In practice, however, one interest may be served to the exclusion of others, and this is a charge that often has been leveled at VE…
Is Greener Whiter Yet? The Sustainable Slopes Program after Five Years
This study focuses on two basic questions: Are voluntary programs effective in promoting higher environmental performance by participant firms? If so, which distinct areas of environmental performance are more likely to be improved by firms joining a voluntary environmental program? We address these questions by assessing the environmental effectiveness of the ski industry’s Sustainable Slopes Program in the western United States between 2001 and…
Chief executive officers and voluntary environmental performance: Costa Rica's certification for sustainable tourism
Institutional Pressures and Voluntary Environmental Behavior in Developing Countries: Evidence From the Costa Rican Hotel Industry
This study aims to identify how institutional forces, such as regulatory and stakeholder pressures, are related to proactive environmental behavior by hotel facilities participating in Certification for Sustainable Tourism, a voluntary environmental program established by the Costa Rican government. This program is among the first third-party performance-based environmental certification initiatives implemented in the developing world. Findings s…
Is Greener Whiter? Voluntary Environmental Performance of Western Ski Areas
This study analyzes the initial implementation of the Sustainable Slopes Program a voluntary environmental initiative established by the U.S. National Ski Areas Association in partnership with federal and state government agencies. Our findings indicate that participation of western ski areas in the Sustainable Slopes Program is related to institutional pressures in the form of enhanced federal oversight and higher state environmental demands exe…
Assessing a voluntary environmental initiative in the developing world: The Costa Rican Certification for Sustainable Tourism
Assessing a voluntary environmental initiative in the developing world: The Costa Rican Certification for Sustainable Tourism
Is Greener Whiter? Voluntary Environmental Performance of Western Ski Areas
This study analyzes the initial implementation of the Sustainable Slopes Program a voluntary environmental initiative established by the U.S. National Ski Areas Association in partnership with federal and state government agencies. Our findings indicate that participation of western ski areas in the Sustainable Slopes Program is related to institutional pressures in the form of enhanced federal oversight and higher state environmental demands exe…
Is Greener Whiter Yet? The Sustainable Slopes Program after Five Years
This study focuses on two basic questions: Are voluntary programs effective in promoting higher environmental performance by participant firms? If so, which distinct areas of environmental performance are more likely to be improved by firms joining a voluntary environmental program? We address these questions by assessing the environmental effectiveness of the ski industry’s Sustainable Slopes Program in the western United States between 2001 and…
Institutional Pressures and Voluntary Environmental Behavior in Developing Countries: Evidence From the Costa Rican Hotel Industry
This study aims to identify how institutional forces, such as regulatory and stakeholder pressures, are related to proactive environmental behavior by hotel facilities participating in Certification for Sustainable Tourism, a voluntary environmental program established by the Costa Rican government. This program is among the first third-party performance-based environmental certification initiatives implemented in the developing world. Findings s…
Chief executive officers and voluntary environmental performance: Costa Rica's certification for sustainable tourism
Are Members of Business for Social Responsibility More Socially Responsible: Tashman/Rivera: Are Members of BSR More Socially Responsible
This study examines the association between corporate social performance (CSP) practices and membership in Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) between 1992 and 2006. BSR is a business association that seeks to help its members adopt enhanced CSP practices. While there is an emerging literature examining voluntary initiatives as alternative policy mechanisms to regulations, most research is focused on initiatives that emphasize environmental …
Business responses to environmental and social protection policies: Toward a framework for analysis
Export processing zones and corporate environmental performance in emerging economies: The case of the oil, gas, and chemical sectors of Trinidad and Tobago
Environmental Regulations and Multinational Corporations' Foreign Market Entry Investments
In this study, we examine how differences in environmental regulation characteristics are linked to multinational corporations' (MNCs) foreign market entry (FME) investments decisions around the world. We rely on a data set with 29,303 observations from 94 European Fortune Global 500 companies operating across 77 countries during the period 2001–2007. We found that MNCs are more likely to enter countries with more certain—i.e., clearer and more s…
Voluntary Environmental Programs: A Symposium
Local Community Characteristics and Cooperation for Shared Green Reputation
This article examines how basic socioeconomic and political factors are associated with higher levels of cooperation to garner a local community's shared green reputation. We analyze panel data on participation efforts in a collective voluntary environmental program, the Ecological Blue Flag Program, by the entire population of beach communities in Costa Rica between 2001 and 2009. Collective voluntary environmental programs are relatively new an…
Do industry associations influence corporate environmentalism in developing countries? Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
Assessing a voluntary environmental initiative in the developing world: The Costa Rican Certification for Sustainable Tourism
Institutional Pressures and Voluntary Environmental Behavior in Developing Countries: Evidence From the Costa Rican Hotel Industry
This study aims to identify how institutional forces, such as regulatory and stakeholder pressures, are related to proactive environmental behavior by hotel facilities participating in Certification for Sustainable Tourism, a voluntary environmental program established by the Costa Rican government. This program is among the first third-party performance-based environmental certification initiatives implemented in the developing world. Findings s…
Is Greener Whiter? Voluntary Environmental Performance of Western Ski Areas
This study analyzes the initial implementation of the Sustainable Slopes Program a voluntary environmental initiative established by the U.S. National Ski Areas Association in partnership with federal and state government agencies. Our findings indicate that participation of western ski areas in the Sustainable Slopes Program is related to institutional pressures in the form of enhanced federal oversight and higher state environmental demands exe…
Chief executive officers and voluntary environmental performance: Costa Rica's certification for sustainable tourism
Voluntary Environmental Programs in the United States: Whose Interests are Served
The appeal of voluntary environmental programs (VEPs) lies in their promise to mutually serve government, industry, and environmental interests because they can reduce administrative burdens, provide flexibility to decide how to implement environmental improvements, and work toward superior environmental performance. In practice, however, one interest may be served to the exclusion of others, and this is a charge that often has been leveled at VE…
Is Greener Whiter Yet? The Sustainable Slopes Program after Five Years
This study focuses on two basic questions: Are voluntary programs effective in promoting higher environmental performance by participant firms? If so, which distinct areas of environmental performance are more likely to be improved by firms joining a voluntary environmental program? We address these questions by assessing the environmental effectiveness of the ski industry’s Sustainable Slopes Program in the western United States between 2001 and…
Voluntary Environmental Programs: A Symposium
Export processing zones and corporate environmental performance in emerging economies: The case of the oil, gas, and chemical sectors of Trinidad and Tobago
Socio-economic and geographic profiling of crime in Chile
Many empirical studies of crime assume that victims and perpetrators live in a single geographical unit, the implication being that the socio-economic characteristics of victims’ places of residence can be treated as determinants of crime. This study offers an alternative approach which consists in measuring crime by the proportion of alleged offenders in the whole population and treating the characteristics of their home communes as socio-econom…
Business responses to environmental and social protection policies: Toward a framework for analysis
Are Members of Business for Social Responsibility More Socially Responsible: Tashman/Rivera: Are Members of BSR More Socially Responsible
This study examines the association between corporate social performance (CSP) practices and membership in Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) between 1992 and 2006. BSR is a business association that seeks to help its members adopt enhanced CSP practices. While there is an emerging literature examining voluntary initiatives as alternative policy mechanisms to regulations, most research is focused on initiatives that emphasize environmental …
Producer-Level Benefits of Sustainability Certification: Benefits of Sustainability Certification
Initiatives certifying that producers of goods and services adhere to defined environmental and social-welfare production standards are increasingly popular. According to proponents, these initiatives create financial incentives for producers to improve their environmental, social, and economic performance. We reviewed the evidence on whether these initiatives have such benefits. We identified peer-reviewed, ex post, producer-level studies in eco…
Generating twins to build weekly time use data from multiple single day OD surveys
Do industry associations influence corporate environmentalism in developing countries? Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
Environmental Regulations and Multinational Corporations' Foreign Market Entry Investments
In this study, we examine how differences in environmental regulation characteristics are linked to multinational corporations' (MNCs) foreign market entry (FME) investments decisions around the world. We rely on a data set with 29,303 observations from 94 European Fortune Global 500 companies operating across 77 countries during the period 2001–2007. We found that MNCs are more likely to enter countries with more certain—i.e., clearer and more s…
A Matching Estimator Based on a Bilevel Optimization Problem
This paper proposes a novel matching estimator where neighbors used and weights are endogenously determined by optimizing a covariate balancing criterion. The estimator is based on finding, for each unit that needs to be matched, sets of observations such that a convex combination of them has the same covariate values as the unit needing matching or with minimized distance between them. We implement the proposed estimator with data from the Natio…
From Adaptation to Transformation: An Extended Research Agenda for Organizational Resilience to Adversity in the Natural Environment
This article aims to encourage research into how organizations can manage their resilience in response to adverse conditions stemming from the natural environment (ecological adversity). While firms may have a general ability to cope with unfavorable operating environments, adaptation to ecological adversity in particular may actually face serious limitations. Using an interdisciplinary approach that draws from resilience theory in socioecology, …
Local Community Characteristics and Cooperation for Shared Green Reputation
This article examines how basic socioeconomic and political factors are associated with higher levels of cooperation to garner a local community's shared green reputation. We analyze panel data on participation efforts in a collective voluntary environmental program, the Ecological Blue Flag Program, by the entire population of beach communities in Costa Rica between 2001 and 2009. Collective voluntary environmental programs are relatively new an…
The impact of grade retention on juvenile crime
The Effect of Pretrial Detention on Labor Market Outcomes
Business Response Strategies to Climate Change: An Integrative and Research Frontiers Outlook
As climate change (CC)-related adversity has become more evident, physical CC impacts and the need to respond to it are now a prominent topic in the political agenda in multiple countries. Accordingly, businesses have begun to adopt strategies to seeking to respond to CC. Recently, strategy and general management scholars have produced a growing number of articles examining the factors that increase the adoption of CC strategies, and, in a few ca…
Economics (18 works) · Business (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Environmental Sustainability in Business (10 works) · Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (8 works) · Management (8 works) · Turnover (8 works) · Certification (7 works) · Public economics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works)