Publication: An institutional perspective on the diffusion of international management system standards : the case of the Environmental management standard ISO 14001
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2011
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This paper analyzes how national institutional factors affect the adoption of
the intemational environmental management standard ISO 14001, using a panel of 139
countries from 1996 to 2006. The analysis emphasizes that during the emerging phase of the
standard, the potentiallack of consensus within the constituents of the national institutional
environment conceming the value of a new standard could send mixed signals to firrns about
the standard. The resuIts show that in the early phase of adoption, regulative and norrnative
forces within the institutional environment can work against each other. Results also show
that regulative or coercive forces playa relatively more important role in the early phase
of adoption of the standard than in the subsequent phases of diffusion. In the later phases
of diffusion of ISO 14001, norrnative forces, such as the diffusion of other management
standards, as well as factors related to trade, playa more important role. Because of the
similarities between environmental management standards and corporate social responsibility
standards, this study can help identify sorne of the challenges for diffusion of ISO
management standards in the area of social responsibility.
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Environmental management standard, ISO 14001
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Business ethics quarterly, 2011, v. 21, n. 1, pp. 103-132