Activist Campaigns Industrial Responses: A Study of the Effect of Environmental Organizations on the United States Gold Mining Industry

这项研究探讨了地方和区域环境组织对美国黄金开采业行为的影响，黄金开采业是十年来最具环境争议的行业之一。 PI质疑地方和区域环境组织（EOs）是否对矿产开发的地理和环境实践有任何影响，以及行业行为的变化是否超出了地方和区域范围。 随着正式环境机构的受欢迎程度和主动性的减弱，了解非政府机构如何运作以及有何成效至关重要。将使用一个定性的研究设计，这取决于档案研究和深入访谈，以划定的“刺激反应”的过程中进行的五个主要举措蒙大拿州的EO在20世纪80年代末到现在。 此外，PI将外部市场条件和个别公司的特点与公司的反应。这项研究将是第一个确定和评估经验的影响，当地和区域的环保组织对行业的环保做法和投资决策。

This research examines the impacts of local and regional environmental organizations on the behavior of the U.S. gold-mining industry, one of the most environmentally controversial industries of the decade. The PI questions whether local and regional environmental organizations (EOs) have any influence in shaping the geography and environmental practices of mineral development, and whether the changes in industry behavior go beyond the local and regional scales. As the popularity and proactiveness of formal environmental institutions wanes, it is critical to understand how and with what effectiveness non-governmental institutions perform. A qualitative research design will be used that depends on archival research and in-depth interviews to delineated the `stimulus-response` processes for five major initiatives conducted by Montana-based EOs during the late 1980s through to the present. In addition, the PI will relate external market conditions and individual firm characteristics to firm responses. This study will be the first to identify and assess empirically the effects of local and regional EOs on industry environmental practices and investment decisions.