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Testing the Drivers of Corporate Environmentalism in Vietnam

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Title Testing the Drivers of Corporate Environmentalism in Vietnam
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TYREB0
 
Creator Malesky, Edmund
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description What motivates private firms’ willingness to invest in green technologies and environmentally friendly operations? Some emphasize enhanced government regulation
and enforcement, while others point to the greater potential of societal pressure. In
this study, we use a survey experiment with more than 10,000 firms in Vietnam to
test which type of stakeholder pressure has the strongest impact on domestic and
foreign business leaders’ intention to invest in green operations. We find that the
effectiveness of stakeholder pressure is conditioned by the firms’ target markets.
Foreign investors are more susceptible than domestic firms to intensive regulatory
pressure. Accounting for export orientation, however, we find that the most amenable
policy targets for regulatory pressure are foreign firms aiming to sell in the
Vietnamese domestic market.
 
Subject Earth and Environmental Sciences
Social Sciences
Corporate environmentalism · Stakeholder pressure · Survey experiment · Emerging markets
 
Date 2023-09-11
 
Contributor Malesky, Edmund