Leveraging the Private Sector
Management-Based Strategies for Improving Environmental Performance

"Improvement in environmental quality often depends upon the way business firms manage their operations. Process cannot substitute for performance, but managementbased strategies do sometimes usefully complement other environmental protection efforts. This valuable book presents programs ranging from management-based strategies that improved environmental outcomes to those that seem to have been little more than public relations exercises. Leveraging the Private Sector provides both cautionary lessons for enthusiasts of managementbased strategies and specific guidance for those seeking to design programs with real environmental benefits."
--Susan Rose-Ackerman, Yale University

"The editors present a credible, comprehensive account of how management-based strategies have worked to date. They provide a theoretical foundation for the study of management-based strategies and offer empirical analyses that draw from both case studies and quantitative data."
--Michael E. Kraft, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

"Leveraging the Private Sector provides critical insights into the environmental behavior of corporations and various management-based approaches to influencing that behavior. It provides a useful alternative to the traditional dichotomy between free markets and command-and-control regulation in thinking about how to meet environmental goals. Policymakers, business managers, lawyers, advocates, and academic analysts will all find it valuable and fascinating reading."
--Barton H. Thompson, Jr., Stanford University

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Leveraging the Private Sector offers the first sustained analysis of public and private sector initiatives designed to encourage firms and industries to use their own management expertise to improve their environmental performance. Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash bring together original empirical studies by the nation?s leading experts on recent public and private sector experiments. Do management-based strategies lead to improved environmental outcomes? What kinds of strategies hold the most promise? Leveraging the Private Sector addresses these questions through studies of state pollution prevention planning laws, private sector purchasing requirements, and federal risk management regulations, among others.

The contributors show that efforts to leverage private sector experience and knowledge can have a distinctive contribution in the future of environmental protection. Ultimately, a firm's broader management practices shape its environmental performance. Public and private sector strategies that seek to influence these practices directly can help bring about further environmental improvements. This book breaks new ground by investigating a new and promising approach for advancing the economy and the environment.

Editor Bios

Cary Coglianese is the Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is the director of the Penn Program on Regulation. He is also a senior research fellow at Harvard University?s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Jennifer Nash is executive director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative and director of the Regulatory Policy Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.