The Paradox of Responsive Authoritarianism: How Civic Activism Spurs Environmental Penalties in China

The authors are grateful to senior editor Brayden King and three reviewers for their feedback and guidance. They also thank Stefan Dimitriadis, Iza Ding, Shon Hiatt, Jiao Luo, Kunyuan Qiao, Tony Saich, András Tilcsik, Mike Toffel, Lori Yue, Letian Zhang, and audience members at the 2016 Academy of Management Conference, Boston University, the George Washington University, the Harvard Kennedy School, the University of Miami Global Strategy and Emerging Markets Conference, and the University of Minnesota for comments on prior versions of this paper.