TY - BOOK ID - 77899052 TI - Greening the firm PY - 2000 SN - 1107118557 1280420944 0511310951 0511152183 0511491867 052166487X 0511048998 0511173172 0511016875 9780511016875 9780511048999 9780511491863 9781280420948 9780521662499 9780521664875 9780511152184 0521662494 PB - Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Environmental policy KW - Industrial management KW - International business enterprises KW - Business enterprises, International KW - Corporations, International KW - Global corporations KW - International corporations KW - MNEs (International business enterprises) KW - Multinational corporations KW - Multinational enterprises KW - Transnational corporations KW - Business enterprises KW - Corporations KW - Joint ventures KW - Business administration KW - Business management KW - Corporate management KW - Industrial administration KW - Management, Industrial KW - Rationalization of industry KW - Scientific management KW - Management KW - Business KW - Industrial organization KW - Environmental aspects KW - Baxter International Inc. KW - Eli Lilly and Company. KW - Lilly (Eli) and Company KW - Lilly and Company KW - Eli Lilly & Co. KW - Baxter Travenol Laboratories KW - E-books KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77899052 AB - Over the last two decades environmental issues have become important in public and business policy. This book asks why firms sometimes voluntarily adopt environmental policies which go beyond legal requirements. It employs a new-institutionalist perspective, and argues that existing explanations, especially from neoclassical economics, concentrate on external factors at the expense of internal dynamics. Prakash argues that 'beyond-compliance' policies are due to two types of intra-firm processes, which he describes as power- and leadership-based. His argument is supported by analysis of ten cases within two firms - Baxter International Inc. and Eli Lilly and Company - including interviews with managers, and access to meetings and documents. This book therefore examines the internal working of firms' environmental policy in a theoretically rigorous way, providing a significant contribution to the theory of the firm. It will be valuable for students of business and environmental studies, as well as political economy and public policy. ER -