ABSTRACT

An organizational political economy perspective is elaborated to explain greenhouse gas emissions in the high polluting U.S. electrical energy industry. The analysis includes an examination of neoliberal organizational and political-legal arrangements and how the managerial class in parent companies make substantively different strategic investment decisions that affect greenhouse gas emissions. The quantitative analysis examines the effects of corporate characteristics and political embeddedness greenhouse gas emissions in the high-polluting energy sector. Findings show that parent company size, organizational complexity, political embeddedness, and the interaction of size and political embeddedness in the largest electrical energy producing corporations effect their greenhouse gas emissions.

摘要

详细阐述了组织政治经济学的观点，以解释污染严重的美国电能工业中的温室气体排放。分析包括对新自由主义组织和政治法律安排的审查，以及母公司的管理阶层如何做出实质上不同的战略投资决策，这些决策影响温室气体的排放。定量分析检查了公司特征和政治嵌入性对高污染能源部门的温室气体排放的影响。研究结果表明，最大的电力生产公司的母公司规模，组织复杂性，政治根深蒂固以及规模与政治根深蒂固的相互作用会影响其温室气体排放量。