This study presents evidence that structured management practices and their relationship to productivity can vary with a firm's external institutional linkages. Combining ideas from new institutionalism with the empirical management literature, we formulate propositions of how external linkages...

The impact of environmental regulation on firm productivity has been long been debated, however, mainly for western economies and with limited firm-level evidence. We study the impact of a large-scale national energy saving program (the Top 1000 Energy-Consuming Enterprises Program, or T1000P,...