Shades of Green: Business, Regulation, and Environment

by Neil Gunningham, Dorothy Thornton, Robert A. Kagan

Book Overview

How much does regulation matter in shaping corporate behavior? This pathbreaking, in-depth study of fourteen pulp manufacturing mills in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand reveals that steadily tightening regulatory standards have been crucial for raising environmental performance. But while all firms have shown improvement, some have improved more than others, many going substantially beyond compliance.

What explains...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804748527
• ISBN13: 9780804748520
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Stanford Law and Politics
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"