Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10226854 | Journal of World Business | 2018 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
This research explores the factors underpinning the international diffusion of environmental management standards (EMSs), focusing on how macro-level institutions explain differences in the extent to which ISO 14001 has penetrated into each country. We argue that macro-level institutions affect the diffusion of ISO 14001 by shaping both how managers assess it and the pressures that stakeholders exert on firms to adopt it. Our results, based on a sample of 49 countries between 2000 and 2014, show that informal and formal institutions, namely, uncertainty avoidance and market-supporting institutions, contribute to explaining cross-country variations in the number of firms implementing ISO 14001.
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Authors
Raquel Orcos, Beatriz Pérez-Aradros, Knut Blind,