Inter-industry ideological groups and the emergence of innovative sustainable business practices
Abstract
Entrepreneurs, government officials, and scholars continue to struggle to find ways to establish
genuine improvements in business environmental performance. However, successes do exist. We
argue that endogenous change in business environmental performance—change not required by
governmental regulation—derives from the ideology of institutional entrepreneurs as a
mechanism for institutional change. We draw on diverse literature to introduce the concept of an
inter-industry ideological group as a mechanism for corporate social responsibility. We discuss
how such groups emerge and present a model to explain how they improve environmental
performance.
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