The massive influx of global warming, pollution, natural resource depletion, waste, wastewater, climate change, and loss of biodiversity are the primary sources of motivating firms to innovate within their businesses. This has caused great concern for academicians, policymakers and practitioners...

Within this paper we explore transition paths firms can take to become product service system (PSS) innovators. Applying the dynamic capability approach we study how three firms have developed PSS innovations in the mobility sector (Car2Go by Daimler AG, Connect by Hertz by The Hertz...

We find that the average value of clean-technology (green) innovation is 37–52% higher due to the effects of environmental regulations, a firm’s exposure to regulatory risk, its knowledge stock of clean technology, and product market competition. This value, however, has declined due to the...

With the growing concern about climate change, businesses have been under increasing pressure from regulatory agencies and customers to implement proactive environmental practices such as eco-innovation. While environmental pressures have been extensively discussed in the literature as drivers...

Because of growing environmental concerns, environmental innovations (EIs) have become increasingly salient in the environmental policy and innovation strategies of firms. This paper studies how the productivity effects of innovations vary across the different types of environmental innovations...

Green public procurement has gained high political priority and is argued to be an effective demand-side policy to trigger environmental innovations. Its implementation usually takes the form of environmental award selection criteria in public procurement tenders. However, there is no direct or...