Pollution Stigma and Manufacturing Firms’ Disengagement Effort: Interactive Effects of Pressures From External Stakeholders

Jia Xu; Jiuchang Wei; Haipeng (Allan) Chen

doi:10.1177/1086026619893960

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Pollution Stigma and Manufacturing Firms’ Disengagement Effort: Interactive Effects of Pressures From External Stakeholders

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Pollution Stigma and Manufacturing Firms’ Disengagement Effort: Interactive Effects of Pressures From External Stakeholders

Jia Xu, Jiuchang Wei and Haipeng (Allan) Chen

Organization & environment, Vol.34(2), pp.243-266

06/2021

DOI: 10.1177/1086026619893960

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Firms’ stigmatization due to deviation from social norms has received extensive attention in recent years. The increasing significance of the social norm requiring firms to protect the natural environment contributes to the emergence of pollution stigma over the heavily polluting firms. We apply the stigma theory to the National Specially Monitored firms of China and expand past research by developing a framework to understand the interactive effects of external stakeholder’s pressure on the tendency for these firms to disengage from the pollution stigma. We find that (a) there is diminishing returns to scale in the joint effect between hard and soft regulative pressure and in that between regulative and normative pressure, (b) the positive effect of mimetic pressure from environmental protection exemplary firms is exacerbated when dilution of stigma responsibility is low, and (c) dilution of stigma responsibility weakens the positive effect of stigma intensity on firms’ disengagement tendencies.

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Title: Subtitle: Pollution Stigma and Manufacturing Firms’ Disengagement Effort: Interactive Effects of Pressures From External Stakeholders
Creators: Jia Xu - University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui Province, P.R. China
Jiuchang Wei - University of Science and Technology of China
Haipeng (Allan) Chen - University of Kentucky
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Organization & environment, Vol.34(2), pp.243-266
DOI: 10.1177/1086026619893960
ISSN: 1086-0266
eISSN: 1552-7417
Grant note: DOI: 10.13039/501100012226, name: fundamental research funds for the central universities, award: WK2040000019; DOI: 10.13039/501100002858, name: china postdoctoral science foundation, award: BH2040000045; DOI: 10.13039/501100001809, name: national natural science foundation of china, award: #71828102 and 71522013
Language: English
Date published: 06/2021
Academic Unit: Marketing
Record Identifier: 9984618520502771

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