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Dahlmann, Frederik, Branicki, Layla and Brammer, Stephen (2017) “Carrots for corporate sustainability” : impacts of incentive inclusiveness and variety on environmental performance. Business Strategy and the Environment, 26 (8). pp. 1110-1131.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bse1971
Abstract
In this paper we explore the role that managerial incentives play in improving corporate environmental performance finding that greater inclusiveness of incentive beneficiaries and greater variety of incentive types are important factors in firms’ incentive schemes. Drawing on a large dataset of multinational enterprises our results suggest that generally including more beneficiaries from different levels within the corporate hierarchy and offering both monetary and non-monetary rewards are more likely to lead to reductions in corporate greenhouse gas emissions. Developing two principles of incentive design, inclusiveness and variety, and the conceptualization of patterns of these in organizations as configurations of incentives, our research contributes substantially to normative advice regarding the relative effectiveness of alternative systems of environmental incentives. Such an understanding of the potential of incentives is critical to informing how firms address complex problems such as sustainability in the context of increasingly extended organizational hierarchies and designs.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Global Energy Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Social responsibility of business, Greenhouse gas mitigation -- Economic aspects | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Business Strategy and the Environment | ||||||||
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0964-4733 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | December 2017 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 26 | ||||||||
| Number: | 8 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1110-1131 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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