Despite burgeoning research on companies ’ environmental strategies and environmental management practices, it remains unclear why some firms adopt environmental management practices beyond regulatory compliance. This paper leverages institutional theory by proposing that stakeholders – including governments, regulators, customers, competitors, community and environmental interest groups, and industry associations – impose coercive and normative pressures on firms. However, the way in which managers perceive and act upon these pressures at the plant level depends upon plant- and parent-company-specific factors, including their track record of environmental performance, the competitive position of the parent company and the organizational structure

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When integrated with key organizational characteristics, institutional theory can yield new insights to understand differences between firms ’ strategies. We propose that a company’s functional organization and internal power structure influence its facility managers ’ sensitivity to and interpretation of institutional pressures. Combining over 500 responses from an original survey with existing data sources, we show how two corporate departments affect how facility managers perceive and respond to various institutional pressures to adopt environmental management practices.

ENVIRONMENT POLICY COMMITTEE Working Party on National Environmental Policy The Firm, The Environment, and Public Policy This is the final report of the OECD's "Eco-Efficiency Project". The report brings together case studies presented by member countries, a review of the relevant secondary literature, and an empirical analysis of the relationship between firms, management systems, and environmental performance.

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and rhetoric in the corporate world: The corporate annual report as an Aristotelian genre This paper is part of a research programme into corporate annual reports. Reports do provide the information on the past performance, present state and future prospects which investors in listed companies require for the rational choices attributed to them. They also reveal the companies ’ responsiveness to the publics comprising the civil societies in which they are embedded. This effect requires more than strict rationality. To use Simon’s distinction, the reports then entail both substantive and procedural rationalities. We argue that classical rhetoric and its recovery in the ‘new rhetoric ’ yield useful approaches to the latter, and that annual reports comprise a genre in the rhetorical sense. We illustrate our case through generic features in the reports of the Australian-based multinational, Amcor. We suggest for future research that accounts of corporate functioning are incomplete unless they include the pre-structured interaction between

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