This paper examines environmental strategies used in Finnish forest, metal, chemical, and energy industries. It focuses on six corporations, Neste, the IVO Group, Outokumpu, Rautaruukki, Kemira, and United Paper Mills, which all are among the most environmentally-intensive companies in the country. A framework for analyzing the environmental strategies of these corporations will be developed.

This paper examines the relationship between Mexican big business and government in the area of environmental regulation. It finds that generally there is a cooperative relationship between firms and governmental agencies inspite of tremendous pressures to bring big business into compliance with newly established and continually changing environmental laws. Areas for the improvement of these relations are identified.

Without alteration of consumption patterns, environmental clean-up in the backyards of richer countries will only shift the problem to poorer countries which have less effective regulations and mechanisms to cope with environmental damage. International negotiations across complex sovereign interests for environmental protection have made slow progress. The increasingly important role of NGOs and other transnational organizations needs to be supplemented by private partnerships that would multiply the interfaces of cooperation for environmental protection, through the complementary development efforts of private corporations driven by economic goals.

This paper presents preliminary results of a study of environmental concerns among corporate managers and boards of directors in Norway, Sweden and Finland. In a content analysis of annual reports of 90 large firms, positive relationship between (1) the number of board members and (2) ownership concentration, and environmental concern were found, while there is indication of a negative relationship between (3) the board members' shareholding and the firm's environmental concern. The results support predictions based on assumptions about top management team pluralism and environmental concern, but prediction drawn from agency theory receive mixed support. The paper indicates that there is a number of issues to control before drawing rigorous conclusions. This study aims at clearing the ground for future research intending to guide public policy makers in their dealing with corporate environmental performance.

Collaboration is an emergent, dynamic process that is characterized by stakeholders creating their own order and meaning. The author suggests that rich dialogue is important in influencing structures, the definition of stakeholders, and creating shared meaning. Examples from a case that involved an interorganizational group working on air quality regulations are provided to illustrate these dynamics.

This paper analyzes the determinants of corporate contributions to environmental inquities. Firm-specific, political, and demographic variables are used to evaluate the corporate role.

Corporate environmental policies and practices are essential ingredients for achieving peer credibility if a firm wishes to be recognized among Britain’s "Most Admired Companies." This paper reviews influences affecting corporate environmental policies. The paper then examines The Economist's three surveys to determine "Britain’s Most Admired Companies," which parallel Fortune's "Most Admired American Corporations." Results are cited; observations offered. Two related reports are examined. The evidence reported permits one to acknowledge the vitality of the corporate environmental policy movement among U.K. companies.

A number of U.S.-dominant frameworks have been developed which address organization and natural environment interactions. This paper develops a model of strategic environmental management based on concepts ffom a number of countries and illustrates these using information and cases from Nordic nations. The special features of the model are ecology-push, forces, ecology-pull forces, internal "7S" processes, and unsustainable elements. The Nordic examples which ground the model are Finnish forestry firms, the Danish Kalundborg industrial symbiosis system, and the Norwegian state oil company, Statoil.

This paper examines environmental certification programs, particularly those of Canada and New Zealand. Similarities and differences are discussed, with emphasis on characteristics having an impact on long-term success.

Following the media attention given to Exxon and Dow-Corning after their controversial handling of the Valdez oil spill and unsafe silicone breast implant incidents, this research investigates the basic question, what do you say when you have made a mistake? It provides a review of the literature on response process, event and impression management, and utilizes the PR Newswire database to explore the attributions and disclosure provided for these events.

"Voices" is a workshop which was originally designed to give I.A.B.S. members a place to discuss topics of concern related to conducting research or scholarship in the area of business, society and the natural environment. In addition to creating a space for dialogue related to issues of importance, the workshop emphasizes the need for action. Thus, individuals are afforded the opportunity to plan and, in some cases, implement actions related to the concerns they have "voiced".

This paper identifies issues in conducting cross-national business ethics research and suggests research objectives for the next decade. It argues that the investigation of cross-national differences in business ethics and the search for universal ethical principles should be pursued simultaneously. The paper urges academics in business ethics to collaborate with scholars in other countries and to consider additional methodologies to augment survey research.

Company ethics programs often seem to constitute the taken-for-granted solution to real and perceived problems of business ethics. Such programs are discussed routinely in the popular business press; their designers, for example, recently have been headlined as the new "gurus" for the 1990s (National Law Journal, January 24, 1994). But just because the propriety of corporate ethics programs often is taken for granted, it is important that the academic community subject them to a careful and sometimes critical eye. I wish to pose a number of questions concerning corporate ethics activities prompted by what I have heard, and not heard, from academics and practitioners alike.

This paper provides a general overview of my own personal experiences in pursing a radical agenda within the limits of being a tenure-track assistant professor at a research university.

The process of scientific inquiry includes implicit assumptions that researchers are (or should be) objective. We argue that active advocacy is a more realistic and desirable model for such inquiry, particularly within the SIM field. There are, however, important limitations to active advocacy. Many of these limitations can be mitigated through the use of tools employed by critical theorists.