Associate Professor of Management
UCLA Institute of the Environment
& UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Luskin Scholar
Director of the Center for Corporate Environmental Performance

UCLA Institute of the Environment
La Kretz Hall, #300
University of California,
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1496
Phone: 310-825-9310
Email: delmas(at)ioe.ucla.edu

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WORKING PAPERS / JOURNAL ARTICLES / BOOK CHAPTERS / COURSES

I. WORKING PAPERS

• Delmas, M. and Montes-Sancho, M. 2009. State Policies for Renewable Energy: Context and Effectiveness.

• Chen, C-M. and Delmas, M. 2009. Measuring Corporate Social Responsibility: An Efficiency Perspective.

• Delmas, M. and Grant, L. 2009. Eco-labeling Strategies and Price-Premium: The Wine Industry Puzzle.

• Delmas, M., Hoffman V. and Kuss, M. 2008. The Tip of the Iceberg: Environmental Strategies and Competitive Advantage.

• Delmas, M. and Montes-Sancho, M. 2009. An Institutional Perspective on the Diffusion of International Accountability Standards: the Case of the Environmental Management Standard ISO 14001.

II. JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Delmas, M. and Montes, M. Forthcoming. “Voluntary Agreements to Improve Environmental Quality: Symbolic and Substantive Cooperation.” Strategic Management Journal.

• Delmas, M. and Doctori, V. Forthcoming. Measuring Corporate Environmental Performance: The Trade-offs of Sustainability Ratings.

• Delmas, M., Montes, M. and Shimshack, J. 2009. “Mandatory Information Disclosure Policy: Evidence from the electric utility industry.” Economic Inquiry.

• Delmas, M. and Montiel, I. 2009. “Greening the Supply Chain: When is Customer Pressure Effective?,” Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 18(1): 171-201.

• Delmas, M and Toffel, M. 2008. "Organizational Responses to Environmental Demands: Opening the Black Box," Strategic Management Journal. 29(10): 1027-1055

• Conti, J. A. Killpack, K., Gerritzen, G., Leia Huang, L., Maria Mircheva, M., Delmas, M., Herr Harthorn, B., P. Appelbaum, R.P., and Holden, P.A. 2008. “Health and Safety Practices in the Nanomaterials Workplace: Results from an International Survey.” Environmental Science & Technology Journal. 42(9): 3155-3162.

• Delmas, M. and Montiel, I. 2008. “The Diffusion of Voluntary International Management Standards: Responsible Care, ISO 9000 and ISO 14001 in the Chemical Industry,” Policy Studies Journal. 36(1): 65-93.

• Delmas, M., Russo, M. and Montes, M. 2007. “Deregulation and Environmental Differentiation in the Electric Utility Industry,” Strategic Management Journal. 28(2):189-209.

• Delmas, M. and Keller, A. 2005. “Strategic Free Riding in Voluntary Programs: the case of the US EPA Wastewise Program,” Policy Sciences. 38: 91-106.

• Delmas, M. and Tokat, Y. 2005. “Deregulation, Efficiency and Governance Structures: The U.S. Electric Utility Sector,” Strategic Management Journal. 26: 441-460.

• Rivera, J. and Delmas, M. 2004. “Business and Environmental Protection: An Introduction,” Human Ecology Review. Specialissue on Business and Environmental Policy.

• Delmas, M. and Marcus, A. 2004. “Firms’ choice of Regulatory Instruments to Reduce Pollution: a Transaction cost approach,” Business and Politics: 6(3), Article 3.

• Delmas, M. and Toffel, M. 2004. “Stakeholders and Environmental Management Practices: An Institutional Framework,” Business Strategy and the Environment. 13: 209-222.

• Delmas, M. 2002. “The Diffusion of Environmental Management Standards in Europe and in the United States: an institutional perspective,” Policy Sciences. 35 (1): 1-119.

• Delmas, M. and Terlaak, A. 2002. “Institutional Factors and Environmental Voluntary Agreements: The Cases of the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and France,” Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. 4(1): 5-29.

• Delmas, M. 2002. “Innovating against European rigidities: Institutional Environment and Dynamic Capabilities,” Journal of High Technology Management Research: 13(1): 18-42.

• Delmas, M. 2001. “Stakeholders and Competitive Advantage: the case of ISO 14001,” Production and Operation Management. 10(3): 343-358.

• Delmas, M. and Heiman, B. 2001. “Government Credible Commitment in the French and American Nuclear Industry,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 20(3): 434-456.

• Delmas, M. and Terlaak, A. 2001. “A Framework for Analyzing Environmental Voluntary Agreements,” California Management Review. 43(3): 44-63.

• Delmas, M. 2000. “Barriers and Incentives to the adoption of ISO 14001 in the United States,” Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum. Fall: 1-38.

• Delmas, M. 1999. “Exposing Strategic Assets to Create New Competencies: The Case of Hazardous Waste Management Industry,” Industrial and Corporate Change vol. 8(4) p. 635-672.

• Bonardi, J.P. and Delmas, M. 1996. “The Impact of Regulatory Uncertainty on Strategies of Hazardous Wastes Processing: The Example of Chemical Companies in Europe,” Gérer et Comprendre, 46: 4-15 (Published in French).

III. BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

• Delmas, M. and Young, O. 2009. “Governance for the Environment: New Perspectives.” Edited volume. Cambridge University Press.

• Delmas, M., Russo, M., Montes-Sancho, M. and Tokat, Y. Forthcoming. “Deregulation, Efficiency and Environmental Performance: Evidence from the Electric Utility Industry” In Regulation, Deregulation & Reregulation. Edited by Michel Ghertman & Claude Menard. Edward Elgar Publishing.

• Delmas, M. and Toffel, M. 2004. “Institutional Pressure and Environmental Management Practices” in New Perspective in Research on Corporate Sustainability: Stakeholders, Environment and Society. Edited by Sanjay Sharma and Mark Starik. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing: 230-245.

• Delmas, M. and Mazurek, J. 2004. “A Transaction Cost Perspective on Negotiated Agreements: The Case of the U.S. EPA XL Program” in Voluntary Approaches to Climate Protection. An Economic assessment of Private-public Partnerships. Edited by Andrea Baranzini and Philippe Thalmann. Edward Elgar publishing.

• Delmas, M. 2002. “Environmental Management Standards and Globalization.” in Dynamics of Regulatory Change: How Globalization Affects National Regulatory Policies. Edited by David Vogel and Robert Kagan. University of California Press/University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection, Edited Volume #1.

• Delmas, M. and Terlaak, A. 2002. “The Institutional Environment of Voluntary Agreements” in Organizations, Policy, and the Natural Environment. Edited by Andrew Hoffman and Marc Ventresca. Stanford University Press: 346-366.

• Delmas, M. and Terlaak, A. 2001. “Voluntary Agreements for the Environment: Institutional Constraints and Potential for Innovation” in Environmental Contracts: Comparative Approaches to Regulatory Innovation in the United States and Europe. Edited by Kurt Deketelaere and Eric Orts. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers: 349-367.

• Delmas, M., Heiman, B. and Ghertman, M. 1997. “Institutional Environment Effects on Transaction Costs: A Comparative Analysis of the U.S. and French Nuclear Power Industry” in Strategy, Structure and Style. Edited by H. Thomas, D. O’Neal and M. Ghertman. John Wiley & Sons: 283-299.

• Delmas, M., Ghertman, M. and Obadia, J. 1997 “Logistic Regression, Segmentation Modeling and Governance Choice in the Waste Management Industry” in Statistical Models for Strategic Management. Edited by Ghertman, M., J. Obadia, & J-L. Arregle. Kluwer Academic Publishers: 261-275.

 

IV. COURSES

Number:	Title
Environ 163	Business and the Environment
Pub Plc 290	Leaders in Sustainability