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

本研究考察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）在塑造矿产开发的地理和环境实践方面是否有任何影响，以及工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以及以何种效率开展工作至关重要。定性研究设计将依赖于档案研究和深度访谈来描述蒙大拿州EOs在20世纪80年代末至今进行的五项主要举措的“刺激-反应”过程。此外，PI将外部市场条件和个别企业特征与企业反应联系起来。本研究将首次确定和实证评估地方和区域生态环境对工业环境实践和投资决策的影响。

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.