A place‐based approach to understanding firms' voluntary environmental engagement
The role of regional pressures in the case of Korea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6328705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jongdae Song (0000-0002-5739-064X, Public Policy Institute Korea University—Sejong Campus Sejong Republic of Korea, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 91-111 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/psj.12510 |
| OpenAlex | W4385068233 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 121 |
Environmental management literature has extensively explored why the regulated community, particularly private firms, join voluntary environmental programs (VEPs) in which participants promise to regulate “beyond compliance.” However, the notion of locus has been rarely considered a key determinant of a firm's VEP participation. This study examines how regional pressures encourage firms' VEP participation. Drawing on a dataset of over 1000 industrial facilities related to five government sponsored VEPs in Korea, it investigates how three types of regional pressures—regulators, industrial peers, and community members—affect firms' decision to join VEPs. The major findings are that firms located in the same region as their conglomerate peers, as well as firms located in a place where a large amount of odor pollutant is released, are more likely to participate in VEPs. These results demonstrate the impact of social attributes derived from the geographic location of firms on facilities' VEP engagement
Affect (linguistics · Business · Compliance (psychology · Economic geography · Economics · Government (linguistics · Industrial organization · Join (topology · Management · Turnover · Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting · Environmental Sustainability in Business · Psychology · Regulation and Compliance Studies · Social Psychology
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Green supply‐chain management
Isomorphism, Diffusion and Decoupling
Supply chain collaboration
Place
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Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land uses
Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective Disclosure
Stress, appraisal, and coping
Advocacy Organizations and Collective Action
Health risk assessment of volatile organic compounds exposure near Daegu dyeing industrial complex in South Korea
Environmental risk and (re)action
Research on neighborhood effects on health in the United States
On the potential of voluntary environmental programmes for the built environment
"Place" as an Integrating Concept in Natural Resource Politics
Institutional Pressures and Voluntary Environmental Behavior in Developing Countries
Bringing Local Knowledge into Environmental Decision Making
Community environmental policing
Inequities in enforcement? Environmental justice and government performance
Voluntary environmental programs
Regulatory enforcement and compliance
The New Governance
Self‐regulation Within the Regulatory State
Greener and cleaner? The signaling accuracy of U.S. voluntary environmental programs
Topophilia
Lagged Explanatory Variables and the Estimation of Causal Effect
How Voluntary Environmental Programs Reduce Pollution
The Regulation Dilemma
Putting the Public Back into Governance
Clean Air Federalism
The Effectiveness of Voluntary Environmental Programs—A Policy at a Crossroads
The Politics of Detection in Business Regulation
Sponsorship Matters
At the Regulatory Front Lines
Green Clubs
Multinational Corporations and Local Communities
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The spatial dimensions of neighborhood effects
Environmental Justice
The Organization and Impact of Inspector Discretion in a Regulatory Bureaucracy
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |