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Environmental regulations, innovation and firm performance: A revisit of the porter hypothesis
This paper examines the relationships between environmental regulations, firms’ innovation and private sustainability benefits using nine case studies of UK and Chinese firms. It aims to unravel the mechanisms by which a firm’s environmental behaviour in improving its private benefits of sustainability is influenced by its relationship with the government, which primarily enacts regulations to maximise public sustainability benefits in the interests of society as a whole. The paper takes its cue from the Porter hypothesis to make some broad preliminary assumptions to inform the research design. A conceptual framework was developed through inductive case studies using template analysis. The results show that depending on firms’ resources and capabilities, those that adopt a more dynamic approach to respond to environmental regulations innovatively and take a proactive approach to manage their environmental performance are generally better able to reap the private benefits of sustainability.Part of the research for this paper was supported by funding from Nottingham Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre and the University of Bedfordshire Business and Management Research Institute
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An analysis of the effects of globalization on the restructuring of higher education in Thailand
textThis study is an ethnographic multiple case study analysis of restructuring in
Thailand’s public higher education system. The analysis uses a global political economy
approach to determine the extent to which globalization plays a part in the restructuring
process. The literature covering the role of globalization in the restructuring of national
higher education systems contains few site-based studies of colleges and universities in
non-western countries. Using a multiple site case study design, the research examined
the Thai Ministry of University Affairs and three universities in Thailand that had
undergone restructuring or were in the process of restructuring.
The study found that although globalization did play a role in the restructuring of
the three institutions, it was not the irresistible force that many claim it to be. The study
confirms the theory that globalization is vulnerable to cultural and social factors. This
does not mean that globalization is not a force to be reckoned with. Globalization
continues to play an important role in the restructuring of Thailand’s higher education
system albeit at a pace and in a direction that is culturally determined. The aspect of
market/economic ideology is still present, but in the context of how the market/economy
operates within the local culture. It is perhaps erroneous, then, to suggest that
globalization is the evangelistic outreach of western ideology around the world. It is
possible to theorize that globalization is concerned with understanding how a given
society/culture uses and manipulates indigenous market/economy strategies in order to
accomplish political and economic goals in that society.Educational Administratio
The impact of family ownership, management, and governance on innovation
Previous research suggests that the distinctive nature of family firms, including both specific advantages and disadvantages related to their particular agency situation, influences innovation activities. Most studies, however, view family firms as homogeneous entities and thus neglect the heterogeneity of family firms when comparing them with nonfamily firms. One important factor of this firm heterogeneity is family influence in terms of ownership, management, and governance. A data set of large German publicly traded firms between 2000 and 2009 is used to test how these three dimensions of family influence predict innovation input and output. The results show that family participation in management and governance has a negative impact on innovation input and a positive influence on innovation output. This suggests that family members are risk averse and reluctant to invest in innovation, but at the same time do so more effectively