Maintainability of First Mover Advantages When Environmental Regulations Differ Between Countries
研究面对更宽松环境法规的外国竞争者时，本国企业如何通过降低污染的减污新范式来维持先发优势，并基于12种国际法规差异情景提出关键因素命题。
Companies in many countries complain of the unfairness of having to compete against foreign rivals facing more lenient environmental regulations. In this article I examine the competitive conditions for firms in such a position. I outline the development of a new pollution-reduction paradigm centered on lowering costs by reducing pollution and, using twelve scenarios of international differences in environmental regulatory regimes faced by first movers and imitators, make propositions on which factors are important to the maintainability of these advantages.