”Green” Managerial Delegation and Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility in Different Market Structures

Abstract

Purpose: Assuming a duopoly industry with pollution producing processes, the aim of this work is to study the firms’ choice to engage in Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility (ECSR) by means of “green” managerial delegation, i.e. hiring managers with preferences for environ mental concerns to whom owners delegate both sales and decisions to adopt green technology.

Keywords

• environmental corporate social responsibility
• “green” managerial delegation
• duopoly
• monopoly
• entry deterrence
• l12
• l13
• l21
• m14