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Institutional pressures and voluntary environmental behavior in developing countries: evidence from the Costa Rican hotel industry.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Rivera, Jorge |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Abstract | This study aims to identify how institutional forces, such as regulatory and stakeholder pressures, are related to proactive environmental behavior by hotel facilities participating in Certification for Sustainable Tourism, a voluntary environmental program established by the Costa Rican government. This program is among the first third-party performance-based environmental certification initiatives implemented in the developing world. Findings suggest that voluntary environmental programs that include performance-based standards and third-party monitoring may be effective in promoting beyond-compliance environmental behavior when they are complemented by isomorphic institutional pressures exerted by government environmental monitoring and trade association membership. These results are consistent with neo-institutional theory from the organizational sociology literature. Surprisingly, findings also indicate that compared to locally owned hotels, foreign-owned and multinational subsidiary facilities do no. |
| Starting Page | 779 |
| Ending Page | 797 |
| Page Count | 19 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1080/08941920490493783 |
| Volume Number | 17 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://home.gwu.edu/~jrivera/Jorge_E_Rivera/Publications_files/SNR,InstitutionalPressures,October,2004-3.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |