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May 1, 2009 by Brian Butler | Filed under: In the host community [1, 4]
Delmas, M. & Toffel, M. W. (2004). Stakeholders and environmental management practices: An institutional framework. Business Strategy and the Environment. Retrieved from www.interscience.wiley.com on Monday, April 13, 2009.
This articles focuses on the pressures placed on companies by both internal and external forces, the articles goes on to suggest that it is because of these forces that we take the step of going beyond compliance. In their viewpoint, agencies such as: the public, government, and parent companies have pushed extreme measure upon local operating sites, that the site is forced into un-necessary practices. The authors feel “ that institution and organization characteristics influences organizations to adopt environmental management practices”. The also state that “firm and plant characteristics are viewed as moderating factors because they are expected to magnify or diminish the influence of institutional pressures”.