Business and the environment
- The causes and consequences of industry self-policing
- J.L. Short;M.W. Toffel / Harvard Business School , 2007
- Programmes encouraging firms to police their own regulatory compliance and voluntarily disclose the violations they find are becoming increasingly important elements of regulatory strategy, and may be...
- Coming clean and cleaning up: is voluntary disclosure a signal of effective self-policing?
- M.W. Toffel;J.L. Short / Harvard Business School , 2008
- This paper evaluates the self-regulatory practice known as self-policing among businesses, which involves encouraging regulated entities to monitor their own compliance with the law and report and cor...
- Evaluating the impact of SA 8000 certification
- M.J Hiscox;C. Schwartz;M.W. Toffel / Harvard Business School , 2008
- Social Accountability 8000 Standard (SA 8000) and similar corporate codes are promoted as a necessary tool to improve workplace conditions, especially in nations that lack robust enforcement of regula...
- Self-regulatory institutions for solving environmental problems: perspectives and contributions from the management literature
- A. King;M.W. Toffel / Harvard Business School , 2007
- This paper discusses how institutions can resolve environmental problems. The paper reviews the emerging management literature on self-regulatory institutions, suggesting that these institutions can p...
- Corporate social entrepreneuership
- J. Austin;E. Reficco / Harvard Business School , 2009
- This paper discusses the concept of Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (CSE), a process aimed at enabling business to develop more advanced and powerful forms of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). ...
- Do voters appreciate responsive governments? evidence from Indian disaster relief
- S. A. Cole;A. Healy;E. D. Werker / Harvard Business School , 2008
- Models of political accountability suggest that the governments which perform poorly fail to get re-elected. Recent evidence suggests, however, that voters may punish politicians even for events outsi...
- Acting globally but thinking locally? The influence of local communities on organisations
- C. Marquis;J. Battilana / Harvard Business School , 2007
- This paper develops an institutional theory of how local communities continue to matter for organisations, and why community factors are particularly important in a global age. It aims to redirect the...
- Traveling agents: political change and bureaucratic turnover in India
- L. Iyer;A. Mani / Harvard Business School , 2008
- Politicians and bureaucrats are two important pillars of governance, but while politicians are motivated by short-term electoral pressures, bureaucrats are driven by long-term career concerns. This di...
- Responding to public and private politics: corporate disclosure of climate change strategies
- E.M. Reid;M.W. Toffel / Harvard Business School , 2008
- Social activists are increasingly attempting to directly influence corporation behavior, using tactics such as shareholder resolutions and product boycotts to encourage companies to improve their envi...
- The business of global poverty
- J. Emmons / Harvard Business School , 2007
- This document discusses work from members of Harvard’s business school global poverty project (GPP). It specifically details the GPP’s claim that business could play a crucial role in redu...
