COMPETITION, REGULATORY POLICY, AND FIRMS' RESOURCE INVESTMENTS: THE CASE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Weigelt, Carmen; Shittu, Ekundayo
• 署名单位: Tulane University; George Washington University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2013.0661
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 678-704
• 关键词: CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGY; Electric utilities; POLITICAL MARKETS; probit models; BLACK-BOX; uncertainty; POWER; US; industry; state

摘要

We study the interplay between regulatory mandates and competition on a focal firm's new resource investments. While prior literature has separately pointed to the influence of competition and regulatory policy on a focal firm's resource decisions, less is known about how the policy effect interacts with the competitive effect. Studying how regulatory mandates moderate the effect of competition on a focal firm's new resource investments, we show that resource redeployment is not simply a function of internal firm decisions but a response to external forces. We find that regulatory mandates dampen the effect of competitors' new resource investments on a focal firm's new resource investments. Distinguishing between different clean technology types, we show that this dampening effect is the stronger, the more distant the new resource is from incumbents' old resource base, and the more established the mandate is. We test our hypotheses in the context of renewable energy investments in waste-to-energy, wind, and solar in the U.S. electricity industry. Our data comprise 1542 utilities and private energy firms and their renewable investments from 1999 to 2010.