The Strategic Use of Decentralized Institutions: Exploring Certification With the ISO 14001 Management Standard
研究企业如何利用ISO 14001等分散化认证标准，来缓解与信息不足或担心机会主义的交易伙伴之间的问题。
In this article, we respond to calls by previous researchers to clarify the function of decentralized institutions by analyzing the strategic motives of individual actors. We investigated an important type of decentralized institution, certified management standards, and theorized that firms use these institutions to reduce problems that might arise with exchange partners that lack information or fear opportunism. We tested this theory using the pattern of certification with the ISO 14001 management standard.