Do Startups and Encumbents Differ on Reasons for Entering into Green Industries?

March 6, 2015

Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability

Author: Jeffrey York and Michael Lenox

Jeffrey York (a CESR Faculty Affiliate) and Michael Lenox have published an article that examines how the economic, political, and sociocultural environment differentially influences entry by new versus incumbent firms in the green building supply industry from 2000 to 2007.

The Coevolution of Industries, Social Movements, and Institutions: Wind Power in the United States

July 2014

Organization Science

Author: Jeffrey York

Jeffrey York (a CESR Faculty Affiliate), Desiree Pacheco and Timothy Hargrave have published a paper that offers a more complete conceptualization of the influence of social movements on industry emergence and growth, and it extends understanding of how SMO diversity is produced.

Startups and incumbents differ on reasons for getting into green building, says CU-Boulder study

September 2013

Strategic Management Journal

Author: Jeffrey York

Jeff York, CESR Faculty Affiliate and assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship at Leeds School of Business, found in this study that the drivers for entry into the green building industry differ between startups and established companies diversifying into the field.  

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Reputation and Decision Making under Ambiguity: A Study of U.S. Venture Capital Firms’ Investments in the Emerging Clean Energy Sector

August 2013

Author: Xin “Eva” Yao 

What role does a venture capital firm’s reputation play in its decision making? CESR’s Faculty Affiliate Xin “Eva” Yao and her colleagues analyzed U.S. venture capital firms’ investments in the clean energy sector from 1990 to 2008 and found that while reputable firms were more likely to invest in the emerging cleantech sector, they also employed risk reduction strategies more extensively. 

Crafting sustainable work: development of personal resources

May 2011

Author: David B. Balkin

The aim of this paper is to conceptualize employees’ sustainable work abilities, or their long-term adaptive and proactive abilities to work, farewell at work, and contribute through working. Sustainable work is defined as to promote the development in personal resources leading to sustainable work ability.

Benign Violations: Making Immoral Behavior Funny

June 2010

Author: A. Peter McGraw

Humor is an important, ubiquitous phenomenon; however, seemingly disparate conditions seem to facilitate humor. We integrate these conditions by suggesting that laughter and amusement result from violations that are simultaneously seen as benign.

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Escaping the green prison: Entrepreneurship and the creation of opportunities for sustainable development

October 2009

Author: David S. Payne

While entrepreneurial activity has been an important force for social and ecological sustainability; its efficacy is dependent upon the nature of market incentives. This limitation is sometimes explained by the metaphor of the prisoner's dilemma, which we term the green prison.

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Threat or coping appraisal: determinants of SMB executives’ decision to adopt anti-malware software

March 2009

Author: Kai R. Larsen

This study presents an empirical investigation of factors affecting small- and medium-sized business (SMB) executives’ decision to adopt anti-malware software for their organizations.

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