The influence of institutional pressures on climate mitigation and adaptation strategies
| Autor: | Tiberio Daddi, Niccolò Maria Todaro, Maria Rosa De Giacomo, Natalia Marzia Gusmerotti, Raimund Bleischwitz |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Public economics
Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment 020209 energy Strategy and Management 05 social sciences Climate change 02 engineering and technology Adaptation strategies Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Business climate Econometric model Climate change mitigation Order (exchange) 050501 criminology 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Normative Business Institutional theory 0505 law General Environmental Science |
| Popis: | Starting from institutional theory, this study aims to explore the effects of coercive, normative and mimetic pressures on businesses climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. In order to test these hypotheses, the study relies on an econometric model by using data from 487 Italian manufacturing companies collected by a questionnaire-based survey. The empirical model based on a multivariate regression reveals that companies which perceive normative and mimetic pressures are more likely to have a higher climate change sensitivity. Moreover, companies with a higher climate change sensitivity are more likely to adopt both mitigation and adaptation strategies. The article provides several contributions. First the study contributes to the debate among institutional scholars by clarifying which institutional pressures exert a more incisive effect on pushing companies to adopt climate actions. Second, it highlights how internal factors play a mediating role between institutional pressures and business climate responses. |
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