Shaping Corporate Environmental Performance: A Review

The aims of this review article are to map the development of the corporate environmental responsibility (CER) concept, to trace the principal debates concerning its contribution to environmental protection, to examine the arguments about the relationship between CER and competitive advantage and to examine whether, to what extent and in what circumstances business behaviour is shaped by broader external forces, not least by markets, governments and civil society. From here, the article concludes by drawing some explicit implications for environmental policy and governance.