Evolving sustainably: a longitudinal study of corporate sustainable development
研究了1986至1995年加拿大油气、采矿和林业企业的可持续发展，发现资源因素和制度因素共同影响企业可持续发展，且媒体压力在早期更重要，资源机会则长期持续。
Abstract This study operationalizes corporate sustainable development and examines its organizational determinants. Data for this project pertain to Canadian firms in the oil and gas, mining, and forestry industries from 1986 to 1995. I find that both resource‐based and institutional factors influence corporate sustainable development. By exploring time‐related effects, I also find that media pressures were important in early periods and resource‐based opportunities endured over time. This finding challenges the assumption that firms first adopt innovations in response to technical rewards which are later institutionalized. These counter‐intuitive results may be attributable to the unique characteristics of the dependent variable, corporate sustainable development. They raise important questions and directions for future research. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.