The Bottom Line Effects of Greening
研究企业采取环保政策是否提升底线利润，比较合规与预防两种立场，发现主动环保通过污染预防项目开发组织学习等资源，形成竞争优势。
The article focuses on if organizations with a pro-environmental policy benefit with bottom-line profitability as a result. It examines two organizational positions concerning environmental policies, compliance and prevention. It states that with a compliance stance, organizations resist the passage and enforcement of environmental legislation and regulations, while prevention goes beyond compliance and works toward source reduction and process innovation. It suggests that a proactive environmental policy becomes a competitive advantage when the development and implementation of pollution prevention programs results in firm resources being developed such as increased organizational learning and higher employee skills and involvement.