Title: A theoretical framework for investigating the determinants of corporate environmental policy

Authors: William R. Holmes

Addresses: Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

Abstract: Factors influencing corporate environmental policy decision-making often result in the formulation and implementation of significantly different environmental policies in firms of similar size in the same industry. A complex network of interrelationships between internal and external stakeholders together with macro level institutional influences and micro level intra-firm dynamics is ultimately what influences corporate environmental management within individual firms. A theoretical framework combining stakeholder theory with new institutionalism can be used to illustrate the interactions which ultimately determine environmental policy formulation and adoption by individual corporations.

Keywords: corporate environmental policy; environmental management; stakeholder theory; new institutionalism.

DOI: 10.1504/IER.2008.053965

Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, 2008 Vol.10 No.1/2, pp.110 - 147

Published online: 13 May 2013 *

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