职业社会规范对企业环境合规的影响

IF 2.6 3区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS
Dietrich Earnhart , Lana Friesen
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摘要

以往的研究表明,社会规范对于解释个人消费者的环保行为非常重要,但很少有研究探讨社会规范在企业环保决策中的作用。本研究通过探讨专业社会规范是否会影响受监管的化工生产企业的合规决策,为丰富的社会规范文献做出了贡献。为此,实证分析使用了受《美国清洁水法案》监管的主要设施的数据,以估算在同一州运营的其他主要化工生产设施的合规历史与单个设施当前合规决策之间的联系。通过使用包含大量混杂因素的固定效应模型,我们发现其他设施的合规历史会产生显著的积极影响:平均合规历史的改善会促使单个设施提高自身的合规表现。通过控制其他将机构的合规决策联系起来的合理渠道,我们将这种关系解释为反映了描述性的专业规范。事实证明,对于地理位置或行业距离较近的机构而言,这种关系更为密切。
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The effect of professional social norms on corporate environmental compliance
While previous studies demonstrate the importance of social norms for explaining the pro-environmental behavior of individual consumers, very few studies examine the role of social norms in the context of businesses’ pro-environmental decisions. This study contributes to the rich social norm literature by exploring whether professional social norms influence the compliance decisions of regulated chemical manufacturing facilities. To this end, the empirical analysis uses data on major facilities regulated under the U.S. Clean Water Act to estimate the link from the compliance history of other major chemical manufacturing facilities operating in the same state to an individual facility’s current compliance decision. Using a fixed-effects model that includes a large set of confounding factors, we find a significant positive effect of other facilities’ compliance history: improvement in the average compliance history prompts the individual facility to increase its own performance. By controlling for other plausible channels that link facility’s compliance decisions, we interpret this relationship as reflecting descriptive professional norms. The relationship proves stronger for facilities that are either geographically or sectorally closer.
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期刊介绍: Resource and Energy Economics provides a forum for high level economic analysis of utilization and development of the earth natural resources. The subject matter encompasses questions of optimal production and consumption affecting energy, minerals, land, air and water, and includes analysis of firm and industry behavior, environmental issues and public policies. Implications for both developed and developing countries are of concern. The journal publishes high quality papers for an international audience. Innovative energy, resource and environmental analyses, including theoretical models and empirical studies are appropriate for publication in Resource and Energy Economics.
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