Management-based strategies : an emerging approach to environmental protection / Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash -- Environmental management style and corporate environmental performance / Robert A. Kagan -- Evaluating management-based regulation : a valuable tool in the regulatory tool box? /...

Voluntary environmental programs (VEPs) seek to improve the environment by encouraging, rather than mandating, businesses and other organizations to adopt environmentally protective measures. Since the 1990s, VEPs established by industry, government, and nongovernmental organizations have...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established numerous voluntary environmental programs over the last fifteen years, seeking to encourage businesses to make environmental progress beyond what current law requires them to achieve. EPA aims to induce beyond-compliance behavior by...

Government regulators have shown considerable interest in encouraging businesses to participate in voluntary environmental programs and practice environmental stewardship in ways that go beyond what regulations require. At the same time, researchers have increasingly worked to understand how...

Improvements in environmental quality depend in large measure on changes in private sector management. In recognition of this fact, government and industry have begun in recent years to focus directly on shaping the internal management practices of private firms. New management-based strategies...

Environmental management systems and the new policy agenda / Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash -- Environmental management systems: history, theory, and implementation research / Richard N.L. Andrews, et al. -- Factors that shape EMS outcomes in firms / Jennifer Nash and John R. Ehrenfeld -- Why...