Business responses to climate change: Identifying emergent strategies

TY - JOUR

T1 - Business responses to climate change

T2 - Identifying emergent strategies

AU - Kolk, Ans

AU - Pinkse, Jonatan

PY - 2005

Y1 - 2005

N2 - Companies face much uncertainty about the competitive effects of the recently adopted Kyoto Protocol on global climate change and the current and future regulations that may emerge from it. Companies have considerable discretion to explore different market strategies to address global warming and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This article examines these strategic options by reviewing the market-oriented actions that are currently being taken by 136 large companies that are part of the Global 500. There are six different market strategies that companies use to address climate change and that consist of different combinations of the market components available to managers. Managers can choose between more emphasis on improvements in their business activities through innovation or employ compensatory approaches such as emissions trading. They can either act by themselves or work with other companies, NGOs, or (local) governments.

AB - Companies face much uncertainty about the competitive effects of the recently adopted Kyoto Protocol on global climate change and the current and future regulations that may emerge from it. Companies have considerable discretion to explore different market strategies to address global warming and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This article examines these strategic options by reviewing the market-oriented actions that are currently being taken by 136 large companies that are part of the Global 500. There are six different market strategies that companies use to address climate change and that consist of different combinations of the market components available to managers. Managers can choose between more emphasis on improvements in their business activities through innovation or employ compensatory approaches such as emissions trading. They can either act by themselves or work with other companies, NGOs, or (local) governments.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=20144384757&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.2307/41166304

DO - 10.2307/41166304

M3 - Review article

AN - SCOPUS:20144384757

SN - 0008-1256

VL - 47

SP - 6-20+3

JO - CALIFORNIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW

JF - CALIFORNIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW

IS - 3

ER -