Corporate Environmentalism and the Greening of Organizations

John M. Jermier is Professor of Organizational Behavior and Exide Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Enterprise Research at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa. He also holds an affiliate professor appointment on USF's faculty of Environmental Science and Policy and is past chair of the Organizations and the Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management. He serves on the Editorial Review Boards of Human Relations, Organization, Organization Science, Leadership Quarterly, Leadership, and the Journal of Workplace Rights. Most of his research has focused on the philosophy and social theory underwriting organizational studies with special emphasis on research methodology. His current research is focused on the greening of organizations and on green energy/technology.

VOLUME ONE: FOUNDATIONAL WORKS ON CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE GREENING OF ORGANIZATIONS PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE GREENING OF ORGANIZATIONS: OVERVIEW Introduction to Major Works in Corporate Environmentalism and the Greening of Organizations. - J.M. Jermier PART TWO: PARADIGMATIC UNDERPINNINGS OF STUDIES OF ORGANIZTAIONS AND THE ENVIRONMENT The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement - Arne Ness A Summary Shifting Paradigms - Alan Drengson From the Technocratic to the Person-Planetary The Dreams of Deep Ecology - Tim Luke Limits to Anthropocentrism - Ronald Purser, Changkil Park and Alfonso Montuori Toward an Ecocentric Organization Paradigm? Organizations and the Biosphere - Carolyn Egri and Lawrence Pinfield Ecologies and Environments PART THREE: IDENTIFYING BLINDSPOTS IN ORGANIZATIONAL AND MANAGEMENT STUDIES AND THE IMPERATIVE OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT Anthropocentric Ethics in Organizations, Strategic Management and the Environment - Thierry Pauchant and Isabelle Fortier A Typology The Meaning of Greening - Thomas Gladwin A Plea for Organizational Theory Castrated Environment - Paul Shrivastava Greening Organizational Studies Ecological Embeddedness - Gail Whiteman and William Cooper PART FOUR: STAGE MODELS OF ORGANIZATIONAL GREENING Pro-Active Environmental Management - Christopher Hunt and Ellen Auster Avoiding the Toxic Trap The Institutionalization of Voluntary Organizational Greening and the Ideals of Environmentalism - Linda Forbes and J.M. Jermier Lessons about Official Culture from Symbolic Organization Theory The Evolution of Environmental Management from Stage Models to Performance Evaluation - Ans Kolk and Anniek Mausner PART FIVE: REVIEWS OF FRAMEWORKS FOR STUDYING ORGANIZATION AND ENVIRONMENT Research in Corporate Sustainability - Sanjay Sharma What Really Matters? The New Corporate Environmentalism and Green Politics - J.M. Jermier et al Research on Organizations and the Natural Environment - Dror Etzion Retrospective, Perspective and Prospective - Andrew Hoffman and Pratima Bansal Introduction to the Oxford Handbook on Business and the Natural Environment VOLUME TWO: EFFECTS OF GOVERNMENTAL PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES ON CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE GREENING OF ORGANIZATIONS PART ONE: INTRODUCTION The Role of Government in Shaping Corporate Environmentalism and the Greening of Organizations - J.M. Jermier PART TWO: THE REGULATION OF BUSINESS: OVERVIEW Re-Inventing Regulation within the Corporation - Christine Parker Compliance-Oriented Regulatory Innovation PART THREE: MODELS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION OF BUSINESS A Reflexive Model of Environmental Regulation - Eric Orts Is Co-Operation the Answer? Canadian Environmental Enforcement in Comparative Context - Kathryn Harrison Street-Level Bureaucrats and the Social Construction of Environmental Control - Stephen Fineman The Regulation Dilemma - Matthew Potoski and Aseem Prakesh Co-Operation and Conflict in Environmental Governance Environmental Review as Battleground - Eric Bonds Corporate Power, Government Collusion and Citizen Opposition to a Tire-Burning Plant in Rural Minnesota, U.S.A Making Self-Regulation More Than Merely Symbolic - Jodi Short and Michael Toffel The Critical Role of the Legal Environment The Effectiveness of Environmental Monitoring and Enforcement - Wayne Gray and Jay Shimshack A Review of the Empirical Evidence PART FOUR: MARKET-BASED INCENTIVES AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY Self-Regulation versus Command and Control? Beyond False Dichotomies - Darren Sinclair What Can We Learn from the Grand Policy Experiment? Lessons from SO2 Allowance Trading - Robert Stavins Prescriptive Environmental Regulations versus Market-Based Incentives - Jody Freeman and Charles Kolstad The Commodification of Pollution and a Pre-Emptive Double Movement in Environmental Governance - Matt Mariola The Case of Water Quality Trading PART FIVE: INTERNATIONAL TREATIES AND GLOBAL POLICY TRENDS Environmental Movement Organizations and Political Strategy - Michael Dreiling and Brian Wolf Tactical Conflicts over NAFTA The Diffusion of New Environmental Policy Instruments - Kerstin Tews, Per-Olof Busch and Helge Joergens State Environmental Protection Efforts - Colleen Nugent and John Shandra Women's Status and World Polity: A Cross-National Study The Politics of Unsustainability - Ingolfur Bluhdorn COP 15, Post-Ecologism and the Ecological Paradox VOLUME THREE: THE NEW CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTALISM AND VOLUNTARY ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES, PART I PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Beyond Government Regulation and Initiatives - J.M. Jermier Voluntary Corporate Environmentalism, Part I PART TWO: ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGY AND THE GREENING OF ORGANIZATIONS A Natural Resource-Based View of the Firm - Stuart Hart Pro-Active Environmental Strategies - Kristel Buysse and Alain Verbeke A Stakeholder-Management Perspective Competitive Strategy and the Environment - Michael Russo and Amy Minto A Field of Inquiry Emerges PART THREE: STRUCTURE, FORMAL SYSTEMS AND THE GREENING OF ORGANIZATIONS Lean and Green? An Empirical Examination of the Relationship between Lean Production and Environmental Performance - Andrew King and Michael Lenox Uncertainty and Equivocality in the Commercial and Natural Environments - Gerard Lewis The Implications for Organizational Design Organizational Consequences of Implementing an ISO 14001 Environmental Management System - Maria Concepcion Lopez-Fernandez and Ana Maria Serrano-Bedia Organizational Responses to Environmental Demands - Magali Delmas and Michael Toffel Opening the Black Box Determinants of Environmental Management in the Red Sea Hotels - Mohammed El Dief and Xavier Font Personal and Organizational Values and Contextual Variables PART FOUR: ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGY AND THE GREENING OF ORGANIZATIONS Environmental Technologies and Competitive Advantage - Paul Shrivastava The Impact of Environmental Technologies on Manufacturing Performance - Robert Klassen and D. Clay Whybark The Voluntary Adoption of Green Electricity by Ontario-Based Companies - Tom Berkhout and Ian Rowlands PART FIVE: THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORTATION AND THE GREENING OF ORGANIZATIONS Overcoming the Social and Psychological Barriers to Green Building - Andrew Hoffman and Rebecca Henn 'Greening' Transportation in the Supply Chain - Susan Golicic, Courtney Boerstler and Lisa Ellram PART SIX: CULTURE AND THE GREENING OF ORGANIZATIONS Inside the 'Black Box' - Jennifer Howard-Grenville How Organizational Culture and Subcultures Inform Interpretations and Actions on Environmental Issues Making Sense of Corporate Environmentalism - Simone Pulver An Environmental Contestation Approach to Analyzing the Causes and Consequences of the Climate Change Policy Split in the Oil Industry The Influence of Corporate Environmental Ethics on Competitive Advantage - Ching-Hsun Chang The Mediation Role of Green Innovation VOLUME FOUR: THE NEW CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTALISM AND VOLUNTARY ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES, PART II PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Beyond Government Regulation and Initiatives - J.M. Jermier Voluntary Corporate Environmentalism, Part II PART TWO: SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAINS, PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY AND THE GREENING OF ORGANIZATIONS Greening Organizations - Ken Green, Barbara Morton and Steve New Purchasing, Consumption and Innovation Green Supply Chain Management - Samir Srivastava A State-of-the-Art Literature Review Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging wastes and WEEE - Rachel Cahill, Sue Grimes and David Wilson A Comparison of Implementation and the Role of Local Authorities across Europe PART THREE: ECO-PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS AND THE GREENING OF ORGANIZATIONS How Corporations and Environmental Groups Co-Operate - Dennis Rondinelli and Ted London Assessing Cross-Sector Alliances and Collaborations Cross-Sector Partnerships to Address Social Issues - John Selsky and BarbaraParker Challenges to Theory and Practice School Custodians and Green Cleaners - Laura Senier et al New Approaches to Labor-Environment Coalitions NGOs and Corporations - Michael Yaziji and Jonathan Doh Conflict and Collaboration PART FOUR: ECO-LABELING, CERTIFICATIONS AND THE GREENING OF ORGANIZATIONS Can Eco-Labels Tune a Market? Evidence from Dolphin-Safe Labeling - Mario Teisl, Brian Roe and Robert Hicks Institutional Emergence in an Era of Globalization - Tim Bartley The Rise of Transnational Private Regulation of Labor and Environmental Conditions Subject to Negotiation - Alexa Trumpy The Mechanisms behind Co-Optation and Corporate Reform The Prospects and Limits of Eco-Consumerism - Peter Dauvergne and Jane Lister Shopping Our Way to Less Deforestation? PART FIVE: INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS, STANDARDS OF CONDUCT, BUSINESS COALITIONS AND THE GREENING OF ORGANIZATIONS Industry Self-Regulation without Sanctions - Andrew King and Michael Lenox The Chemical Industry's Responsible Care Program Regulatory Convergence in Non-Governmental Regimes? Cross-National Adoption of ISO 14001 Certifications - Matthew Potoski and Aseem Prakash The United Nations Global Compact - Andreas Rasche, Sandra Waddock, and Malcolm McIntosh Retrospect and Prospect PART SIX: OWNERSHIP, CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE GREENING OF ORGANIZATIONS Globalization and the Environment - Petra Christmann and Glen Taylor Determinants of Firm Self-Regulation in China Socio-Emotional Wealth and Corporate Responses to Institutional Pressures - Pascual Berrone et al Do Family-Controlled Firms Pollute Less? Domesticating Radical Rant and Rage - Min-Dong Paul Lee and Michael Lounsbury An Exploration of the Consequences of Environmental Shareholder Resolutions on Corporate Environmental Performance VOLUME FIVE: GREENING ORGANIZATIONS AND EFFECTIVENESS PART ONE: INTRODUCTION The Role of Greening in Organizational Effectiveness - J.M. Jermier PART TWO:THE GREENING OF ORGANIZATIONS AND THE MANANGEMENT OF COMPETITIVENESS AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE Corporate Social and Financial Performance - Marc Orlitzky, Frank Schmidt and Sara Rynes A Meta-Analysis The Business Case for Corporate Sustainability - Oliver Salzmann, Aileen Ionescu-Somers and Ulrich Steger Literature Review and Research Options Corporate Reputation and Social Performance - Stephen Brammer and Stephen Pavelin The Importance of Fit Does It Pay to Be Green? A Systematic Overview - Stefan Ambec and Paul Lanoie Green Management and Financial Performance - Jose Molina-Azorin et al A Literature Review Does Environmental Performance Affect Financial Performance? A Meta-Analysis - Eva Horvathova How Hot Is Your Bottom Line? Linking Carbon and Financial Performance - Timo Busch and Volker Hoffmann PART THREE: THE GREENING OF ORGANZATIONS AND THE MANAGEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE Assessing the Impact of Environmental Management Systems on Corporate and Environmental Performance - Steven Melynk, Robert Sroufe and Roger Calantone Covenants with Weak Swords - Matthew Potoski and Aseem Prakash ISO 14001 and Facilities' Environmental Performance From a Literature Review to a Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Supply Chain Management - Stefan Seuring and Martin Muller Finding the Connection - Dagmara Nawrocka and Thomas Parker Environmental Management Systems and Environmental Performance Decoupling of Standard Implementation from Certification - Deepa Aravind and Petra Christmann Does Quality of ISO14001 Implemenation Affect Facilities' Environmental Performance? PART FOUR: GREENING ORGANIZATIONS, SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING AND ASSURANCE Determinants of the Adoption of Sustainability Assurance Statements - Ans Kolk and Paolo Perego An International Investigation Seeking Legitimacy for New Assurance Forms - Brendan O'Dwyer, David Owen and Jeffrey Unerman The Case of Assurance on Sustainability Reporting The Role of Stakeholders in Sustainability Reporting Assurance - Giacomo Manetti and SimoneToccafondi PART FIVE: GREENING ORGANZATIONS: MEASUREMENT ISSUES Measuring Corporate Environmental Performance - Anne Illinitch, Naomi Soderstrom and Tom Thomas The Concept of Environmental Performance and Its Measurement in Empirical Studies - Wolfgang Schultze and Ramona Trommer VOLUME SIX: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE GREENING OF ORGANIZATIONS PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Critical Perspectives on Corporate Environmentalism and the Greening of Organizations - J.M. Jermier PART TWO: CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTALISM AND GREENWASHING Introduction to Greenwash: The Reality behind Corporate Environmentalism - Jed Greer and Kenny Bruno World Business Council for Sustainable Development - Adil Najam The Greening of Business or a Greenwash? Social Accountability and Corporate Greenwashing - William Lauffer When Are Corporate Environmental Policies a Form of Greenwashing? - Catherine Ramus and Ivan Montiel Corporate Greening through ISO 14001 - Olivier Boiral A Rational Myth? The Harm of Symbolic Actions and Greenwashing - Kent Walker and Fang Wan Corporate Actions and Communications on Environmental Performance and Their Financial Implications Weak Coffee - Daniel Jaffee Certification and Co-Optation in the Fair Trade Movement PART THREE: CRITICAL THEORY APPROACHES 'Mad cow' Disease and the Animal-Industrial Complex - Carol Adams Environmental Management as Political Sustainability - David Levy Environmental Justice and the Political Process - David Pellow Movements, Corporations and the State Key Challenges to Ecological Modernization Theory - Richard York and Eugene Rosa Institutional Efficacy, Case Study Evidence, Units of Analysis and the Pace of Eco-Efficiency The Primordial Stakeholder - Cathy Driscoll and Mark Starik Advancing the Conceptual Consideration of Stakeholder Status for the Natural Environment Organizations and the Natural Environment - Tim Newton Critical Perspectives on Business and the Natural Environment - Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee PART FOUR: FUTURE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT Organizing Ecological Revolution - John Bellamy Foster The Idols of Environmentalism - Curtis White Do Environmentalists Conspire against Their Own Interests? From 'Zombies' to 'Coyotes' - Jon Anderson Environmentalism Where We Are