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- Buhr, Katarina, 1980-, et al.
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Institutional Plurality and U.S. Corporate Climate Change Strategies
- 2010
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Ingår i: Organizations and the Natural Environment.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper contributes to the literature on institutional plurality by examining how domestic and foreign institutions interact to shape corporate strategies. Our argument suggests that institutional plurality lead to both complementarities that encourage firms to pay attention to an issue and develop soft strategies such as management incentives, and fragmentation which makes firms more likely to avoid or postpone the adoption of hard strategies that require higher levels of commitment like formal plans. The hypotheses are tested in an empirical analysis of the influences of domestic and foreign institutions on the likelihood that U.S. corporations use soft and hard climate change strategies. While institutions in general increase the likelihood that firms engage in both forms of climate change strategies, we find that firms with experience from both state-level emission targets and the EU Emission Trading Scheme are less likely to develop formal plans than firms with sole experience from one of the two institutional contexts. This finding stresses the value of a contextualized theory of institutional influences which takes into consideration the spatial distribution of institutional pressures and the level of organizational commitment required by different strategic responses. We demonstrate that organizational passivity can be an unintended consequence of situations governed by multiple regulatory initiatives, which each seeks to increase the level of organizational action.
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- Buhr, Katarina, 1980-, et al.
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Mediaöversättningar av en ny teknik : CCS i svensk press
- 2010
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Ingår i: Företag och medier. - Malmö : Liber AB. - 9789147094455 ; , s. 130-147
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Denna bok visar hur medierna har tagit sig in som en viktig del av företagandet och målar upp detta förändrade landskap. Författarna belyser vilka intressen som står på spel, hur det intrikata samspelet mellan företag och medier ser ut och hur olika aktörer hanterar påtryckningar och försöker driva sina egna dagordningar. Sammantaget utmanas bilden av kommunikationen mellan företag och medier som direkt, endimensionell och linjär.
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- Buhr, Katarina, et al.
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U.S. corporations’ climate change strategies in response to foreign and domestic regulation. Unintended consequences of regulatory plurality
- 2012
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report examines how domestic and foreign regulations interact to shape corporate strategies to address climate change. We expect that heightened attention and uncertainty encourage firms to use low commitment strategies that signal involvement in an issue, but discourage high commitment strategies which can expose firms to higher levels of external accountability. Analyzing climate change strategies of U.S. corporations, we find support for the idea that firms with both domestic and foreign regulation experience are less likely to develop emission reduction plans (high commitment strategy) than firms with sole experience from one of the two contexts. Thus, passivity can be an unintended consequence of multiple regulatory initiatives.
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- Engwall, Lars, 1942-, et al.
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A Field Approach to Corporate Governance
- 2018
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Ingår i: Corporate Governance in Action. - New York : Routledge. - 9781138285668 - 9781315268859 ; , s. 25-41
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Engwall, Lars, 1942-, et al.
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Conclusions
- 2018
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Ingår i: Corporate Governance in Action. - New York : Routledge. - 9781138285668 ; , s. 185-198
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- Engwall, Lars, 1942-, et al.
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Governance Relations
- 2018
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Ingår i: Corporate Governance in Action. - New York : Routledge. - 9781138285668 ; , s. 163-183
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- Engwall, Lars, 1942-, et al.
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Resituating Corporate Governance
- 2018
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Ingår i: Corporate Governance in Action. - New York : Routledge. - 9781138285668 ; , s. 1-24
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- Buhr, Katarina, 1980-
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Bringing Aviation into the EU Emissions Trading Scheme : Institutional Entrepreneurship at Windows of Opportunity
- 2008
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The present decade has experienced a boom in public and private interest in climate change. A frequently exposed industry in this debate has been aviation, not least international air transport, the greenhouse gas emissions of which have long remained unregulated. This exemption stemmed from several challenges in the search for a regulatory response to target this rapidly growing source of emissions, challenges that involve scientific, political, technological, and economic factors. Following the European Commission’s 2005 announcement of their intention to bring aviation into the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, this particular policy instrument was placed at the centre of the debate. This thesis presents an historical account, to help us understand the emphasis on emissions trading in this first non-domestic regulation to target international aviation’s climate change impact.This thesis offers explanations of the emissions trading proposal by examining the institutional process through which a climate policy for aviation was developed. It guides us through the transnational debate that unfolded across local and global arenas involving a wide range of organisations, not least with reference to the escalating climate change debate after 1997. Particular attention is paid to disputed developments at the EU arena but the study also reveals how significant driving forces to bring aviation into the EU Emissions Trading Scheme intensified in the national context of the United Kingdom. Building on qualitative data including a range of documents and interviews with key players in the field, this study highlights the complexity of the many organising activities involved in policy development. The analysis is largely based on integrating recent developments in organisational institutionalism into the major contours of the multiple streams approach of political scientist John W. Kingdon.The conclusions concern four important themes against which the proposal to include aviation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme should be understood: the institutional context in which it was shaped; the organised collective that promoted emissions trading; the timing dimension of both agency and the process itself; and the significant transnational influences on EU policy. The theoretical contribution is primarily directed towards organisational institutionalism in demonstrating how regulatory processes are situated, not only in an institutional context but also in a powerful temporal context significantly dependent on a window of opportunity.
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- Buhr, Katarina, 1980-, et al.
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Capturing the Stories of Corporations : A comparison of media debates on carbon capture and storage in Norway and Sweden
- 2011
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Ingår i: Global Environmental Change. - : Elsevier. - 0959-3780 .- 1872-9495. ; 21:2, s. 336-345
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The development and deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) are sensitive to public debates that socially frame the technology. This study examines the evolving CCS debates, focusing on the media's framing of firms. Corporations are central CCS actors, and we analyze them in light of the nation-state, which has been emphasized in previous research as the primary context of CCS politics. Empirically, we compare framings of Statoil and Vattenfall in the Norwegian and Swedish media, drawing on a qualitative dataset of news media articles published between 2005 and 2009. We conclude that firms make regular media statements either to foster legitimacy or to respond to criticism of CCS. We also conclude that framing is not necessarily linked to technological success or failure and that interpretations of the technology have different forms depending on whether the related activity occurs in domestic or foreign markets. Finally, we explain the media framings based on the domestic energy situation and politics.
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