Environmental regulation and MNEs location: Does CSR matter?

Lammertjan Dam and Bert Scholtens

Ecological Economics, 2008, vol. 67, issue 1, 55-65

Abstract: We investigate whether firms with relatively low environmental standards are more often located in countries that are poor, corrupt or have weak environmental regulations. We find new empirical evidence in favor of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis, which states that MNEs are transferring their dirty operations to countries with weak environmental regulation. Our findings suggest that these are not necessarily the poorest or most corrupt countries. We establish that MNEs with strong social responsibility avoid locating their operations in countries with weak environmental regulation.

Keywords: Corporate; social; responsibility; Regulation; Multinational; Enterprise; Internationalization; Pollution; Haven; Hypothesis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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