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; innovation ; environmental innovation ; organizational change ; productivity …
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This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of … Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative … Office with firm-level data from the German Innovation Panel (Mannheim Innovation Panel). The results are based on dynamic …
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This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...
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Innovation processes toward sustainable development (eco-innovations) have received increasing attention during the … need can be identified to improve our understanding of innovation processes toward sustainability in their different … (co-)evolutionary approaches from environmental and innovation economics to fill this gap. It is argued that both …
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The study assesses net employment effects of technical progress which can be expected by the ongoing transition from end-of-pipe technologies towards cleaner production. Empirical evidence is presented on the basis of case studies and panel data including a telephone survey in German industry....
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This paper investigates the effects of the EU Environmental Management and Auditing Scheme (EMAS) on environmental innovations and competitiveness in German facilities. It comprises twelve in-depth case studies and telephone interviews with 1277 EMAS-validated facilities. The surveys show a...
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This study investigates productivity effects to firms introducing new environmental technologies. The literature on within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can get higher productivity effects from adopting new technologies if complementary organisational changes...
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prone to increase employment, while firms that want to slash costs by innovation and compete by soft factors decrease … employment more frequently. -- Innovation ; labour demand ; discrete choice models …
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