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119196
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2013.
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This paper compares the key arguments of ecological modernization theory (EMT) with the reality of recent environmental reform in China. Based on data gathered from a survey and in-depth interviews with executives from Hong Kong-based enterprises operating in Guangdong province, we examine the changing roles of government, market, and civil society actors in the reform process, focusing on various types of pressures these actors have exerted on business enterprises. Compatible with Mol's (2006) conjectures, ecological concerns have gradually gained a foothold in existing political, economic, and to a lesser extent, social institutions. Yet, the relevant actors and their patterns of interactions differ from what EMT generalizes from Western European experiences. Specifically, local governments are assuming a more formalized relationship with firms in regulatory enforcement. Among market actors, organizational buyers along the supply chain have exerted more noticeable pressures on manufacturing firms than industrial associations and individual consumers. Civil society, while remaining less of an institutionalized actor in the environmental policy process, appears to pose a perceptible threat to at least some firms.
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114458
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2012.
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IN AN INCREASINGLY GLOBALIZING WORLD, where we witness an interweaving of economic, financial, and trading ties, the issue of civilized behavior by transnational corporations is beginning to take on added urgency. The corporations are growing by absorbing ever more of the world's business and economic entities and active population. Their business activities span large groups of people, often becoming city-forming activities and, therefore, their scope of responsibility should include providing quality social and health services and maintaining a proper natural environment. In other words, the corporations are called upon to be a leader in labor relations and in the observance of labor laws and, accordingly, human rights. Of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 are corporations; only 49 are countries.1
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123903
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2013.
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THE RADICAL ENERGY POLICY SHIFT declared by the German government still remains a priority theme in public debate in the FRG Despite the impressive growth of the proportion of renewable energy sources (RES) in electricity generation, experts and the business community are having increasing doubts about the wisdom of the course taken by the Government in quickly winding down the nuclear energy industry, pushing out hydrocarbon energy resources and speedily introducing RES. How will the break-up of the existing structure of the energy balance tell on the competitiveness of German industry and on household budgets as electricity prices will inevitably rise in the future? Can the weather-dependent wind and solar power plants reliably provide an uninterrupted supply of electricity to businesses? What financial resources will be needed to upgrade and expand the network infrastructure for integrating new parks of RES stations into the national grid?
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095882
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2010.
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This paper examines territorial politics in China, using the case of Jiangsu's Jiangyin-Jingjiang Industrial park (JJJIP), jointly owned by the cities of jiangyin and Jingjiang.
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091479
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2009.
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I sincerely believe that in the modern world the relationship between Governments is increasingly mediated through and influenced by the relationship between civil society and the business community. It is on the foundation of people-to-people and business-to-business relations that we in Government try to build State-to-State relations.
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119554
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