Organizational responses to environmental demands: Opening the black box

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Delmas, Magali A.; Toffel, Michael W.
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Harvard University
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/smj.701
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 1027-1055
• 关键词: INSTITUTIONAL THEORY; stakeholder influence; environmental strategy; ISO 14001; voluntary environmental programs; structural equation modeling

摘要

This article combines new and old institutionalism to explain differences in organizational strategies. We propose that differences in the influence of corporate departments lead their facilities to prioritize different external pressures and thus adopt different management practices. Specifically, we argue that external constituents-including customers, regulators, legislators, local communities, and environmental activist organizations-who interact with influential corporate departments are more likely to affect facility managers' decisions. As a result, managers of facilities that are subjected to comparable institutional pressures adopt distinct sets of management practices that appease different external constituents. We test our framework in the context of the adoption of environmental management practices using an original survey and archival data obtained for nearly 500 facilities. We find support for these hypotheses. Copyright (C) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.