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Empirical influence of environmental management on innovation: Evidence from Europe

Marcus Wagner
- 15 Jun 2008 - 
- Vol. 66, Iss: 66, pp 392-402
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In this paper, the authors analyzed the hypothesis that environmental management systems and managerial activities to reduce negative environmental impacts which are not part of EMS have a positive influence on the probability of firms to carry out environmental innovations.
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This article is published in Ecological Economics.The article was published on 2008-06-15 and is currently open access. It has received 300 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Environmental scanning & Product (category theory).

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The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (Chinese Translation)

Paul DiMaggio, +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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Determinants of Eco-innovations by Type of Environmental Impact: The Role of Regulatory Push/Pull, Technology Push and Market Pull

Jens Horbach, +2 more
- 01 Apr 2011 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, a new and unique dataset based on the German Community Innovation Survey conducted in 2009 was used to test whether different types of eco-innovations (according to their environmental impacts) are driven by different factors.
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Determinants of eco-innovations by type of environmental impact — The role of regulatory push/pull, technology push and market pull

Jens Horbach, +2 more
- 01 Jun 2012 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a new and unique dataset based on the German Community Innovation Survey conducted in 2009 was used to test whether different types of eco-innovations (according to their environmental impacts) are driven by different factors.
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Drivers of different types of eco-innovation in European SMEs

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- 01 Aug 2013 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the drivers of different types of eco-innovation in European SMEs and find that those entrepreneurs who give importance to collaboration with research institutes, agencies and universities, and to the increase of market demand for green products are more active in all types of Eco-innovations.
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The effects of customer benefit and regulation on environmental product innovation.

Daniel Kammerer
- 01 Jun 2009 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of regulation and customer benefit on EP-innovation is analyzed with logit regression and the results clearly show that both customer benefit and regulation play a key role for EP innovation.
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Frequently Asked Questions (9)
Q1. What contributions have the authors mentioned in the paper "Empirical influence of environmental management on innovation: evidence from europe" ?

This paper analyses the hypothesis that environmental management systems ( EMS ) and managerial activities to reduce negative environmental impacts which are not part of EMS have a positive influence on the probability of firms to carry out environmental innovations. Based on binary and multinomial discrete choice models, the relationship of a number of determinants on the occurrence of environmental innovations is studied using data collected during the “ European Business Environment Barometer 2001/2002 “ survey in 9 European states. The study finds that environmental management systems are associated with process innovations. However, the study did not find that environmental management systems are associated with product innovations. Market research on the potential of environmental innovations positively relates to both process and product innovations. 

Rehfeld et al. (2007) categorised only 20% of their respondents as not carrying out environmental product or process innovations, whilst Hemmelskamp (1999) classified only 33% and Ziegler and Rennings (2004) only 27% of their respondents as not being environmentally innovative. 

As well, only 26% of the firms in my research carry out both, environmental product and process innovations, compared to 30% in Rehfeld1 

Because the benchmarking, product recycling and life-cycle assessment variables were not significant in the all model specifications, they were excluded from the final models presented here for reasons of parsimony. 

In case of the additional activities, the strongest effect was found for market research, followed by eco-labelling and informing consumers and market research also had an effect on process innovation. 

The most important finding is that Hypothesis 1 can be confirmed in the limited multivariate probit model in that EMS implementation has a significant positive effect on both product and process innovations. 

the insignificant effect on process innovations of informing consumers is plausible, since their decisions focus on products and even in the case of information about production processes, these will manifest in buying a particular product for which some related improvement of the production process took place. 

In addition to these limitations the European focus of the analysis needs to be acknowledged as one feature of the research that may limit transferability of the findings in light of the institutional differences to other regions. 

A limitation of the study is that data were only collected for EMAS-verified firms, thereby limiting the generalisability of the identified determinants for environmental innovations to the population of firms in the German manufacturing sector.