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Green innovations and organizational change : making better use of environmental technology

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2012

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...

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Long-term impacts of environmental policy and eco-innovative activities of firms

Rennings, Klaus; Rexhäuser, Sascha - 2010

This paper analyses two aspects of environmental regulations triggered by ecoinnovations. First, whether there are long term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the environmental benefit of the innovations. To answer...

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Policy-induced environmental technology and incentive efforts : is there a crowding out?

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha - 2013

Significant policy effort is devoted to stimulate the development, adoption and diffusion of environmentally-friendly technology. Sceptics worry about the effects of regulation-induced environmental technology on firms' competitiveness. Since innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a...

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Unmasking the Porter hypothesis : environmental innovations and firm-profitability

Rexhäuser, Sascha; Rammer, Christian - 2011

We examine impacts of different types of environmental innovations on firm profits. Following Porter’s (1991) hypothesis that environmental regulation can improve firms’ competitiveness we distinguish regulation induced and voluntary environmental innovations. We find that innovations which...

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Good enough! : are socially responsible companies the more successful environmental innovators?

Reif, Christiane; Rexhäuser, Sascha - 2015

The link between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities and financial performance of firms has been … strategies generates a higher financial performance than the application of one or none of the strategies. We analyse if … environmental innovators can generate higher financial performance by signalling their environmental engagement through CSR. For …

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