Hosted by the Erb Institute at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

First Annual Conference:
Alliance for Corporate Responsibility, May 8-9, 2009

Conference Sponsors:

Dartmouth
Duke University
Harvard University
University of Michigan
University of Virginia
University of Western Ontario

Friday, May 8

Please see Agenda Page for Additional Scheduling Details

Session One: Stakeholder Activism and Leadership

Institutional Void and Stakeholder Leadership: Implementing Renewable Energy Standards in Minnesota (doc), Alfred Marcus (Minnesota)
Discussant: Nardia Haigh (Michigan)

Responding to Public and Private Politics: Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies (pdf), Erin Reid (Harvard)
Discussant: Haitao Yin (Shanghai Jiao Tong)

Session Two: Regulation and Strategy in the Electricity Industry

Does Competition Promote Environmental Investments? Retail Electricity Deregulation and Renewable Generation (pdf), Eun-Hee Kim (Michigan)
Discussant: Ryan Kellogg (Michigan)

Why are you so demanding? The interrelationship of firm capabilities and an electric utility regulator acting strategically (pdf), Adam Fremeth (Minnesota)
Discussant: Meredith Fowlie (Michigan)

Session Four: Drivers of Environmental Performance

Social Movement Activism and Corporate Environmental Performance: Direct Action, Community Norms and Organizational Heterogeneity (pdf), Min Dong Paul Lee (South Florida)
Discussant: Brandon Lee (London Business School)

The Effect of Acquisitions on Targets' Routines: Evidence from facilities' environmental performance, 1991-2005 (doc), Glen Dowell (Cornell)
Discussant: Dietrich Earnhart (Kansas)

Session Three: Innovative Methods for Monitoring and Enforcement

Competitors as Whistleblowers in Enforcement of Product Standards (pdf), Erica Plambeck (Stanford)
Discussant: Mark Cohen (Resources for the Future))

Saturday, May 9

Session Five: Green Certification Schemes

Competing Environmental Labels (pdf), Tom Lyon (Michigan)
Discussant: John Maxwell (Western Ontario)

It's Not Easy Building Green: the Intersection of Private and Public Institutions in the Adoption of Voluntary Certification Standards (docx), Jeffrey G. York (Virginia)
Discussant: Andy Hoffman (Michigan)

Session Six: Empirical Studies of Signaling and Disclosure

Signaling Life-Cycles: A Longitudinal, Industry Level Analysis of the Diffusion of Environmental Management Systems (pdf), Dror Etzion (McGill)
Discussant: Magali Delmas (UCLA)

Does Disclosure Reduce Pollution? Evidence from India's Green Rating Project (pdf), Nick Powers (Michigan)
Discussant:Eric Orts (Wharton)

Session Seven: Self-Regulation and Voluntary Agreements

Corporate Social Responsibility or Voluntary Agreements? (pdf), Matthieu Glachant (CERNA)
Discussant: Tom Lyon (Michigan)

Voluntary Environmental Regulation in Developing Countries: Mexico's Clean Industry Program (doc), Allen Blackman (Resources for the Future)
Discussant: Andy King (Dartmouth)