Based on the theoretical background of the link between countries’ transparency and environmental policy our paper provides empirical evidence for a sample of 68 countries for the time period of 2001-2010. By assuming that countries’ transparency levels shape their environmental policy which...

The paper investigates China’s environmental performance-economic development relationship for the time period of 1965-2009. The results indicate that after 1990 China increased its environmental performance mainly driven by the implementation of several environmental policies. In addition...

Based on the theoretical background of the link between countries’ public sector transparency and environmental policy, our paper provides empirical evidence for a sample of 49 countries for the time period of 1995–2000. Assuming that countries’ environmental performance is a product of...

This paper applies nonparametric estimators to examine the effect of regional quality of government on the environmental performance in the NUTS 1-regions in France, Germany and the UK. The most comprehensive existing regional measure on governance is used, gauging the partiality, corruption and...

Some of the academic research on ISO 14001 has focused on analyzing the benefits of its adoption. However, this international standard has also received some criticism, particularly in respect of the adoption of ISO 14001 when not accompanied by significant improvements in environmental...

In the very study, the emphasis lays on the specific problem of analyzing the impact of the innovation strategy (in particular investment in research and development) on the financial, social and environmental performance. After discussing this subject theoretically, we propose our research...

Every stage of the apparel production process has the potential to impact theenvironment. Using R. E. Freeman’s 1984 stakeholder theory as a framework thiswork seeks to a) identify current stakeholder groups’ expectations for environmentalperformance on key environmental issues within the...

Dilia Lopez-Gydosh

Previous empirical work suggests that poor firm environmental performance is negativelyassociated with firm financial performance. A common measure of firm environmentalperformance is emissions of toxic chemicals, typically taken from the EPA’s ToxicRelease Inventory (TRI). However, TRI...

Currently SMEs in the developing countries like Pakistan are struggling for their survival, however, because of increasing consumer awareness, SMEs have to focus over the environmental concerns as well. For SMEs green entrepreneurial orientation is taking significant importance. Moreover, based...