Do Foreign-Owned Plants Pollute More?: New Evidence from the U.S. EPA Toxics Release Inventory

摘要

Critics of globalization and capitalist expansion suggest that foreign-owned plants pollute more than domestically owned ones. Using the U.S. EPA Toxics Release Inventory, we test the effects of foreign ownership on the environmental performance of chemical plants in the United States, Results suggest that net of other factors, foreign ownership has a negligible impact on the environmental performance of chemical plants. Implications for research on the organizational determinants of environmental degradation are discussed..