Business and Public Policy : Responses to Environmental and Social Protection Processes

This book advances neo-institutional work that has traditionally portrayed protective public policies as easily enforced-exogenous constraints followed by businesses. We propose that businesses show increasing resistance as the protective policy process moves from initiation to selection and growing cooperation thereafter. We also contribute to neo-institutional theory by positing that this inverted U-shaped policy process-business response relationship is moderated by a country's level of democracy, policy network style, regulatory approach, and national economic income