The greening of black gold: towards international environmental alignment in the petroleum industry

Thesis

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Erratum

Titlepage

Stellingen

Preface and acknowledgements

Contents

1 Introducing Corporate Environmentalism

PART I: Literature review, exploratory framework, and methodology

2 The Black Box of Environmental Management

3 The International Environmental Alignment Framework

4 Examining Environmental Alighment: Research Method & Operationalisation

PART II: Sector study

5 Strategic Isomorphism in the Petroleum Industry?

6 Petroleum, Reputation and Industry Patterns

7 Environmental Strategy & Structure: External Disclosure of Alignment

PART III: Case Studies: Environmental Alignment in Focus

8 Royal Dutch Shell Group: Catalyst Events and Environmental Alignment

9 British Petroleum: Imbalanced Alignment and International Mergers

10 TotalFinaElf: Unsystematic Alignment from the Single Setting

11 Statoil: State-Induced Environmental Alignment

12 Conclusions, limitations and further research

Bibliography

List of Tables

List of Figures

Annex I. Pollution haven and industrial flight; overview of the literature

Annex II. Interview Questions, coding scheme and list of interviewees

Annex III. Survey

Annex IV. Environmental Policy & Environmenal Commitment

Annex V. Overview of references to EMS in environmental reports

Annex VI. Overview of reporting on environmental performance

Summary

Nederlandstalige Samenvatting

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