Voluntary environmental programs (VEPs) are institutions that encourage participating
actors to produce environmental public goods beyond the requirements of government law …

abstract Management studies on corporate sustainability practices have grown
considerably. The field now has significant knowledge of sustainability issues that are firm …

Corporate environmentalism (CE) pertains to firm-level efforts to reduce pollution and
resource use along with protecting natural habitats. Importantly, firms pledge to undertake …

Abstract The United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) has generated a lively debate among
academics, activists, and policy practitioners. Given the scope and ambition of this program …

Many European pharmaceutical regulators have committed to a more open, inclusive, and
transparent model of regulatory decision-making in recent years. Yet, based on little …

The concept of transparency has gained widespread appeal in the European
pharmaceutical domain, not least at the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Agency …

The growth of the administrative state and legislative gridlock has placed the White House at
the center of environmental policymaking. Every recent president has continued the trend of …

After sweeping environmental legislation passed in the 1970s and 1980s, the 1990s
ushered in an era when new legislation and reforms to existing laws were consistently …

Transparency research related to the regulatory process would benefit most from two types
of empirical studies. One batch of studies, described in the fifth section of this essay, would …

New developments substantially increase dependency on technologies and services and
give rise to new risks and security challenges, which require further investigation of the …