This paper aims at analysing the role of the environment in innovative strategies based on firm economic performance …-related effects (the core of performance indicators) are not significant. Mainstream hypotheses related to eventual negative impacts … performance do not seem to be present. …

of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2004. As a measure of lagged environmental performance … characterise the economic growth-environmental performance relationship. Signals of inverted U shape appears: this may be a signal …