Chrun, Elizabeth, Berliner, Daniel 
ORCID: 0000-0002-0285-0215 and Prakash, Aseem
(2018)
Stakeholder scrutiny, urban bias, and the private provision of public goods.
Business and Politics, 20 (2).
pp. 273-300.
ISSN 1369-5258
Abstract
While many scholars have studied urban bias in public policy, the potential for bias in the private provision of public goods has received little attention. Private certification is a mechanism encouraging private provision of environmental public goods. We show that within countries, there are often wide disparities in certification rates between firms located in urban and non-urban areas. However, these disparities can be mitigated if there is a countervailing force: scrutiny of firms' practices by key stakeholders. We suggest that the presence of strong civil society, independent media, a functioning state regulatory apparatus, and multinational owners can ameliorate the urban bias in certification uptakes. We test this argument with global, firm-level data covering over 40,000 firms in ninety-three countries. Our analyses suggest that an urban bias is mitigated when stakeholders - both public and private - have the freedom and capacity to scrutinize firms' activities.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-a... |
| Additional Information: | © 2017 V.K. Aggarwal and published under exclusive license to Cambridge University Press |
| Divisions: | Government |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JS Local government Municipal government G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Oct 2019 14:24 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Sep 2025 09:56 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/102129 |
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