Corporate Sustainability

Daniel Diermeier serves as the thirteenth Provost of the University of Chicago. As Provost, Diermeier has responsibility for academic and research programs across the University and oversees the University’s budget. Prior to his appointment as Provost, Diermeier was Dean of the Harris School of Public Policy from 2014-2016. He is the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor at the Harris School and the College and a member of the Board of the University of Chicago Medical Center, the Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory, and the Board of Trustees of NORC.

• VOLUME ONE: CONCEPTSPart One: The Meaning of SustainabilitySustainability: An Economist′s Perspective - Robert SolowToward Some Operational Principles of Sustainable Development - Herman DalyA General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems - Elinor OstromIntergenerational Equity and the Investment of Rents from Exhaustible Resources - John HartwickCapital Theory and the Measurement of Sustainable Development: An Indicator of “Weak” Sustainability - David Pearce and Giles AtkinsonInnovative Responses to Materials Shortages - Nathan RosenbergSocial Capital and the Collective Management of Resources - Jules PrettySocial Sustainability: A Catchword between Political Pragmatism and Social Theory - Beate Littig and Erich GrießlerThe Economics of Resources and the Resources of Economics - Robert SolowPart Two: Sustainability and GovernanceThe Struggle to Govern the Commons - Thomas Dietz, Elinor Ostrom and Paul C. SternInformational Regulation of Environmental Risks - Paul Kleindorfer and Eric OrtsInstitutional Evolution and Change: Environmentalism and the US Chemical Industry - Andrew HoffmanPart Three: Concepts of Corporate SustainabilityA Natural-Resource-based View of the Firm - Stuart HartSustainability and the Firm - Forest ReinhardtImpure Altruism and Donations to Public Goods: A Theory of Warm-Glow Giving - James AndreoniIncentives and Prosocial Behavior. - Roland Benabou and Jean TiroleA Modigliani–Miller Theory of Altruistic Corporate Social Responsibility - Joshua Zivin and Arthur SmallVOLUME TWO: DRIVERSPart One: Private PoliticsStrategic Activism and Nonmarket Strategy - David Baron and Daniel DiermeierTrouble in Store: Probes, Protests, and Store Openings by Wal-Mart, 1998–2007 - Paul Ingram, Lori Qingyuan Yue and Hayagreeva RaoPrivate Environmental Activism and the Selection and Response of Firm Targets - Michael Lenox and Charles EesleyPart Two: Regulatory PressureCompliance and Enforcement: Air Pollution Regulation in the U.S. Steel Industry - Wayne Gray and Mary DeilyEnforcement and Over-Compliance - Jay Shimshack and Michael WardThe Impacts of the “Right to Know”: Information Disclosure and the Violation of Drinking Water Standards - Lori Bennear and Sheila OlmsteadSelf-Regulation and Social Welfare: The Political Economy of Corporate Environmentalism - John Maxwell, Thomas Lyon and Steven HackettOrganizational Responses to Environmental Demands: Opening the Black Box - Magali Delmas and Michael ToffelPart Three: Consumer DemandWhy We Boycott: Consumer Motivations for Boycott Participation - Jill Gabrielle Klein, N. Craig Smith and Andrew JohnGreen Markets and Private Provision of Public Goods - Mathew KotchenDoes Doing Good Always Lead to Doing Better? Consumer Reactions to Corporate Social Responsibility - Sankar Sen and C.B. BhattacharyaPrivate Provision of Environmental Public Goods: Household Participation in Green-Electricity Programs - Matthew Kotchen and Michael MooreEco-Labeling Strategies and Price Premium: The Wine Industry Puzzle - Magali Delmas and Laura GrantPart Four: Employees and ManagementWhy Companies Go Green: A Model of Ecological Responsiveness - Pratima Bansal and Kendall RothA Positive Theory of Moral Management, Social Pressure, and Corporate Social Performance - David BaronAttracting Responsible Employees: Green Production as Labor Market Screening - Kjell Arne Brekke and Karine NyborgManagerial Interpretations and Organizational Context as Predictors of Corporate Choice of Environmental Strategy - Sanjay SharmaVOLUME THREE: STRATEGYPart One: Environmental Management and Cost LeadershipEffects of “Best Practices” of Environmental Management on Cost Advantage: The Role of Complementary Assets - Petra ChristmannExploring the Locus of Profitable Pollution Reduction - Andrew King and Michael LenoxGreen Clubs and Voluntary Governance: ISO 14001 and Firms’ Regulatory Compliance - Matthew Potoski and Aseem PrakashPart Two: Green Markets, Product Differentiation and EcolabelingSelling to Socially Responsible Consumers: Competition and the Private Provision of Public Goods - Mark Bagnoli and Susan WattsLabel Confusion: The Groucho Effect of Uncertain Standards - Rick Harbaugh, John Maxwell and Beatrice RousillonCan Eco-Labels Tune a Market? Evidence from Dolphin-Safe Labeling - Mario Teisl, Brian Roe and Robert HicksGreenwash: Corporate Environmental Disclosure under Threat of Audit - Thomas Lyon and John MaxwellTilting at Windmills? The Environmental Movement and the Emergence of the U.S. Wind Energy Sector - Wesley Sine and Brandon LeePart Three: Activists, Private Politics and Self-RegulationThe Industrial Organization of Private Politics - David BaronPart Four: Industry self-RegulationIndustry Self-Regulation without Sanctions: The Chemical Industry′s Responsible Care Program - Andrew King and Michael LenoxSelf-Regulation, Taxation, and Public Voluntary Environmental Agreements - Thomas Lyon and John MaxwellTesting the Effects of Self-Regulation on Industrial Accidents - Steven Finger and Shanti Gamper-RabindranPart Five: Political StrategyToward a More General Theory of Regulation - Sam PeltzmanQuality Leadership When Regulatory Standards are Forthcoming - Stefan Lutz, Thomas Lyon and John MaxwellCorporate Environmentalism and Environmental Statutory Permitting - Christopher DeckerVOLUME FOUR: CONSEQUENCESPart One: Corporate Financial PerformanceThe Effect of Socially Activist Investment Policies on the Financial Markets: Evidence from the South African Boycott - Teoh Siew Hong, Ivo Welch and Paul WazzanDo Corporate Global Environmental Standards Create or Destroy Market Value? - Glen Dowell, Stuart Hart and Bernard YeungPart Two: InvestorsDo Stock Markets Penalize Environment-Unfriendly Behaviour? Evidence From India - Shreekant Gupta and Bishwanath GoldarMisery Loves Companies: Rethinking Social Initiative by Business - Joshua Margolis and James WalshTalking Trash: Legitimacy, Impression Management, and Unsystemmatic Risk in the Context of the Natural Environment - Pratima Bansal and Iain ClellandSocial Movements as Extra-Institutional Entrepreneurs: The Effect of Protests on Stock Price Returns - Brayden King and Sarah SouleDoing Well by Doing Good? Green Office Buildings - Piet Eichholtz, Nils Kok and John QuigleyEnvironmental Disclosure: Evidence from Newsweek’s Green Companies Rankings - Thomas Lyon and Jay himshackPart Three: Corporate Social and Environmental PerformanceInformal Regulation of Industrial Pollution in Developing Countries: Evidence from Indonesia - Sheoli Pargal and David WheelerInformation as Regulation: The Effect of Community Right to Know Laws on Toxic Emissions - Shameek Konar and Mark CohenHow Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure - Anil R. Doshi, Glen W.S. Dowell and Michael W. ToffelPublic Disclosure of Industrial Pollution: The PROPER Approach for Indonesia? - Jorge H. García, Thomas Sterner and Shakeb AfsahVoluntary Compliance, Pollution Levels, and Infant Mortality in Mexico - Andrew Foster, Emilio Gutierrez and Naresh KumarMultinationals and Anti-Sweatshop Activism - Ann Harrison and Jason Scorse

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