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We study the driving forces behind the adoption of environmental innovations (EI) in the Italian economy over 2006-2008 through empirical analyses of the new wave of Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data that covered environmental innovation adoptions in different realms (energy, carbon,...
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Many scholars have highlighted the role of high performance work practices (HPWP) and Human Resource Management (HRM … complementarity between different performance oriented strategies such as training and organizational innovations of labor and … original dataset on 555 Italian industrial firms on EI and high performance work practices, coherent with the last CIS5 survey …
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Along the line of the Porter hypothesis, firm’s might react to and challenge environmental policy in a forward looking way. This needs a full restructuring of firm’s assets, technologies and competencies. We empirically show through a bivariate probit analysis of environmental...
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integrated innovation adoption behind environmental productivity performance is a signal of the current weaknesses economies face …
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The achievement of positive Environmental Performance (EP) at national level could strongly depend on differences in …
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We model investment decisions regarding innovation and emissions abatement in a dynamic theoretical framework. Considering knowledge stock as an impure public good, we study the reaction function between one representative agent’s investments in innovation and the other agents’...
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We present a joint theoretical-empirical investigation to assess the adoption by manufacturing firms of innovations aimed at increasing recycling and, consequently, reducing the use of material and waste in production processes. According to the recent emphasis on the 'external' factors...
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of macro performance rely on various structural change and innovation elements. Further research could investigate how …
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level and between firm economic performance and innovation at microeconomic level. However, the economists have had less … the aim of disentangling the relations between pre-crisis innovation strategies and firm economic performance during the … performance in the recession. The results suggest the existence of strong relationships between past innovative activities and the …
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L’obiettivo del lavoro è sfruttare la teoria delle Environmental Kuznets Curves per testare la dinamica relativa all'intensità di emissioni di anidride carbonica (intesa come rapporto tra emissioni e valore aggiunto) ed alla produttività del lavoro (calcolata come valore aggiunto su ore...
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