INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC PRESSURES AND CHINESE ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSES TO GREENING.

Using 2006 survey data on 374 Chinese manufacturers representing six major industrial groups in Suzhou, Dalian, and Tianjin cities, we test the relationship between normative, coercive and mimetic international institutional pressures and the adoption of three important proactive environmental practices -- ISO 14001, TQEM (total quality environmental management), and eco-auditing -- by Chinese firms. We also find that that this relationship is greater than that arising from internal domestic pressures. However, there is no support for the hypothesis that parent ownership or venture partners moderate this relationship.