 Business participation in the development of a Chinese emission trading schemeAlex Lo and Kang Chen Energy Policy, 2020, vol. 140, issue C Abstract: Businesses are often involved in climate change governance and form networks to influence policy. They are evidently important for the implementation of market-based emission trading schemes and their general role has been widely discussed. However, there is a variety of business networks, and their specific structures and organizing styles are poorly understood, particularly in the non-Western context. This study identifies the ways in which one of these networks was organized and performed a governing function in the development of an emission trading scheme in China. We found that the policy development was neither highly top-down nor bottom-up, and business participation was hierarchical. Key governing roles were effectively performed by a small group of collaborating business organizations, which were essentially public-private hybrid actors and able to build linkages between the top and the bottom levels. The findings indicate the decisive qualitative differences in business leadership in the development of market-based policy. Keywords: Business; Network; Hybrid organization; Emission trading; Climate change; Environmental governance; China (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:enepol:v:140:y:2020:i:c:s0301421520301853 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111432 Access Statistics for this article Energy Policy is currently edited by N. France More articles in Energy Policy from Elsevier |
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