报告人Reporter：Frank Wijen （教授），布鲁塞尔鲁汶大学

报告时间：2025年7月1日（星期二）14:30-16:00

报告地点：商学院210会议室

主持人：许睿谦

报告简介Abstract：

Many environmental policies by national governments fail to accomplish the aspired corporate performance improvements. Existing studies have overlooked the possibility that the cause of ineffective environmental regulations may be located outside the focal policy. We argue that governments develop siloed environmental policies, whereas firms make integrative decisions in response to all policies combined. The divergent foci of governmental makers and corporate takers of environmental policies may lead to unintended negative policy spillovers. We empirically study pollution-intensive firms in China, targeted by policies to both decrease their air pollution and increase their energy efficiency. We find that these firms improved their air-quality performance while decreasing their energy-efficiency performance. The negative spillover was attenuated when firms had more slack to accommodate the adoption of both policies and amplified when firms operated in regions with a higher state capacity to monitor pollution. We attribute the corporate performance tradeoff in adjacent policy domains to attention conflicts that lead firms to strategically prioritize the most incentivized policy. In conclusion, governments should coordinate issue-specific policies to avoid that compliance-oriented policies will crowd out other important policies.  

报告人简介：

Frank Wijen is a Professor of Global Sustainable Strategies at the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven in Brussels (Belgium). Previously he worked as an Associate Professor at the Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands). He holds a PhD in management from Tilburg University, where he also worked as a Senior Researcher.

Frank's research interests revolve around strategies to institutionalize sustainable business activities, especially in an international context. He published in journals such as Academy of Management Review (2014, 2015), Strategic Management Journal (2018), Journal of International Business Studies (2023), Journal of Management (2022, 2023), Organization Science (2013), Organization Studies (2006, 2007), California Management Review (2011, 2018), Regulation & Governance (2023), and Strategic Organization (2011), and was the leading editor of A handbook of globalisation and environmental policy, second edition (2012, published by Edward Elgar).