Jorge E. Rivera is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy at George Washington University School of Business. His research focuses on the relationship between public policy and business strategies. He has published more than 30 manuscripts and his work received Best Paper Awards from the Academy of Management's Organizations and Natural Environment Division in 2001 and the Policy Sciences Society in 2003. His journal articles have also been mentioned in more than 30 news stories by national and international newspapers including the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. In 2010 one of his publications, co-authored with Peter deLeon, examining the voluntary environmental behavior of the US ski industry, was ranked as the most cited manuscript published in the Policy Studies Journal between 2004 and 2009. He is also the author of Voluntary Environmental Programs: A Policy Perspective (co-edited with Peter deLeon) by Lexington Press. In 2009, Professor Rivera was appointed as an Associate Editor of the journals Policy Sciences and Business and Society. He is also Chair-elect of the Organizations and the Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management.

Review of the hardback: 'Jorge Rivera offers an ambitious and welcome contribution to the literature on corporate environmentalism. Where most academic work in this area focuses on industrialized nations, Rivera's book shifts the lens towards the developing world. He provides careful analysis with both breadth - how variations in specific country characteristics moderate corporate response to public policies - and depth - how firm level characteristics vary the type of response. Further, he blends theoretically grounded analysis in institutional theory and policy science with careful empirical analysis of voluntary corporate programs in the US and Costa Rica. The result is a thorough and rigorous piece of work that should be of interest to scholars in this rapidly growing domain of study.' Andrew J. Hoffman, Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan

• List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Publication acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Business responses to the protective policy process in the US; 3. Country context and the protective policy process-business response relationship; 4. Firm level characteristics and business responses to environmental/social protection demands; 5. Is greener whiter? Resistance strategies by the US ski industry; 6. Is greener whiter yet? Resistance or beyond compliance by the US ski industry?; 7. Institutional pressures and proactive environmental protection: evidence from the Costa Rican hotel industry; 8. Chief executive officers and proactive environmental protection: evidence from the Costa Rican hotel industry; 9. Certified beyond compliance and competitive advantage in developing countries; 10. Conclusion; References; Index.

Jorge E. Rivera is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy at George Washington University School of Business. His research focuses on the relationship between public policy and business strategies. He has published more than 30 manuscripts and his work received Best Paper Awards from the Academy of Management's Organizations and Natural Environment Division in 2001 and the Policy Sciences Society in 2003. His journal articles have also been mentioned in more than 30 news stories by national and international newspapers including the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. In 2010 one of his publications, co-authored with Peter deLeon, examining the voluntary environmental behavior of the US ski industry, was ranked as the most cited manuscript published in the Policy Studies Journal between 2004 and 2009. He is also the author of Voluntary Environmental Programs: A Policy Perspective (co-edited with Peter deLeon) by Lexington Press. In 2009, Professor Rivera was appointed as an Associate Editor of the journals Policy Sciences and Business and Society. He is also Chair-elect of the Organizations and the Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management.

Review of the hardback: 'Jorge Rivera offers an ambitious and welcome contribution to the literature on corporate environmentalism. Where most academic work in this area focuses on industrialized nations, Rivera's book shifts the lens towards the developing world. He provides careful analysis with both breadth - how variations in specific country characteristics moderate corporate response to public policies - and depth - how firm level characteristics vary the type of response. Further, he blends theoretically grounded analysis in institutional theory and policy science with careful empirical analysis of voluntary corporate programs in the US and Costa Rica. The result is a thorough and rigorous piece of work that should be of interest to scholars in this rapidly growing domain of study.' Andrew J. Hoffman, Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan

• List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Publication acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Business responses to the protective policy process in the US; 3. Country context and the protective policy process-business response relationship; 4. Firm level characteristics and business responses to environmental/social protection demands; 5. Is greener whiter? Resistance strategies by the US ski industry; 6. Is greener whiter yet? Resistance or beyond compliance by the US ski industry?; 7. Institutional pressures and proactive environmental protection: evidence from the Costa Rican hotel industry; 8. Chief executive officers and proactive environmental protection: evidence from the Costa Rican hotel industry; 9. Certified beyond compliance and competitive advantage in developing countries; 10. Conclusion; References; Index.

Jorge E. Rivera is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy at George Washington University School of Business. His research focuses on the relationship between public policy and business strategies. He has published more than 30 manuscripts and his work received Best Paper Awards from the Academy of Management's Organizations and Natural Environment Division in 2001 and the Policy Sciences Society in 2003. His journal articles have also been mentioned in more than 30 news stories by national and international newspapers including the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. In 2010 one of his publications, co-authored with Peter deLeon, examining the voluntary environmental behavior of the US ski industry, was ranked as the most cited manuscript published in the Policy Studies Journal between 2004 and 2009. He is also the author of Voluntary Environmental Programs: A Policy Perspective (co-edited with Peter deLeon) by Lexington Press. In 2009, Professor Rivera was appointed as an Associate Editor of the journals Policy Sciences and Business and Society. He is also Chair-elect of the Organizations and the Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management.

Review of the hardback: 'Jorge Rivera offers an ambitious and welcome contribution to the literature on corporate environmentalism. Where most academic work in this area focuses on industrialized nations, Rivera's book shifts the lens towards the developing world. He provides careful analysis with both breadth - how variations in specific country characteristics moderate corporate response to public policies - and depth - how firm level characteristics vary the type of response. Further, he blends theoretically grounded analysis in institutional theory and policy science with careful empirical analysis of voluntary corporate programs in the US and Costa Rica. The result is a thorough and rigorous piece of work that should be of interest to scholars in this rapidly growing domain of study.' Andrew J. Hoffman, Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan

• List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Publication acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Business responses to the protective policy process in the US; 3. Country context and the protective policy process-business response relationship; 4. Firm level characteristics and business responses to environmental/social protection demands; 5. Is greener whiter? Resistance strategies by the US ski industry; 6. Is greener whiter yet? Resistance or beyond compliance by the US ski industry?; 7. Institutional pressures and proactive environmental protection: evidence from the Costa Rican hotel industry; 8. Chief executive officers and proactive environmental protection: evidence from the Costa Rican hotel industry; 9. Certified beyond compliance and competitive advantage in developing countries; 10. Conclusion; References; Index.