TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract As demands on global water resources intensify, battles are emerging over water ownership and governance. Evidence to support opposing views is scarce, however, especially with respect to the impact of ownership on water quality. Using a data set of 168,823 municipal water systems in the United States from 2010 to 2014, we find evidence that stakeholder attention moderates the effect of ownership on compliance with drinking water quality standards. Private systems’ compliance improves more rapidly with system size, consistent with greater social movement pressure, while public systems’ compliance improves more rapidly with local educational attainment, consistent with greater responsiveness to stakeholder attention and concern.
VL  - 56
SN  - 978-1-78754-349-2, 978-1-78754-350-8/0733-558X
DO  - 10.1108/S0733-558X20180000056009
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20180000056009
AU  - Montgomery A. Wren
AU  - Lyon Thomas P.
AU  - Zhao Dan
ED  - Forest Briscoe
ED  - Brayden G King
ED  - Jocelyn Leitzinger
PY  - 2018
Y1  - 2018/01/01
TI  - Not a Drop to Drink? Drinking Water Quality, System Ownership, and Stakeholder Attention
T2  - Social Movements, Stakeholders and Non-Market Strategy
T3  - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 207
EP  - 245
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -