| Author: | Aseem Prakash |
| Title: | A Logic of Corporate Environmentalism: Beyond-Compliance Environmental Policymaking in Baxter International Inc. and Eli Lilly and Company |
| Institution: | Joint Ph.D., School of Public and Environmental Affairs and Department of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington |
| Date: | August 1997 |
| Advisor: | Professor Elinor Ostrom and Professor Jeffrey A. Hart |
| Key Words: | Corporate Environmental Management; Regulation and Policy |
| How to Obtain: | A revised version of this dissertation is being published as a book: Aseem Prakash. "Greening the Firm: The Politics of Corporate Environmentalism." Cambridge University Press, forthcoming |
| Abstract: | This book examines "beyond-compliance" environmental policymaking
within two multinational corporations -- Baxter International Inc. and
Eli Lilly and Company. The neoclassical theory treats firms as unitary
actors and explains their policies as passive responses to market signals
and/or governmental regulations. Consequently, it does not sufficiently
explain why firms selectively adopt "beyond-compliance" policies. To explore
this puzzle, I employ a new-institutionalist perspective. Instead of treating
firms as unitary actors, this book views them as composite actors, as units
of collective action. In the new-institutionalist tradition, I identify
two theories of firm behavior: power-based, and leadership-based. These
represent two kinds of intra-firm processes: coercive
(power) and induced cooperation (leadership). Employing these theories, I examine processes of environmental policymaking focusing on ten cases across two firms. |