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protection, eco-innovation) of the ecological/sustainability transition. If the one-size-fits-all has not been proved a viable …
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Frugal innovations are increasingly considered in the context of sustainability and are seen to have promising … potential for the realization of global sustainability goals. So far, the discourse has focused on the question of whether and … principles can be used to further substantiate the link between frugal innovations and corporate sustainability as well as to use …
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This paper builds on the available knowledge on what drives firms' production choices towards circular economy practices to shed new light on a so far quite neglected dimension: the role of organizational settings. Being the transition to a more circular economy systemic in nature, it draws not...
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Frugal innovations are increasingly considered in the context of sustainability and are seen to have promising … potential for the realization of global sustainability goals. So far, the discourse has focused on the question of whether and … principles can be used to further substantiate the link between frugal innovations and corporate sustainability as well as to use …
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The Circular Economy concept has emerged to face current unsustainable economic trends. Circularity requires to go beyond mainstream linear business models in favour of new design strategies and production processes able to support an efficient use and a continuous flow of resources. Clarifying...
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This paper investigates the empirical link between emission intensity and economic growth, using a very large data set of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2004. As a measure of lagged environmental performance (efficiency) at firm level we exploit NAMEA sector for CO2,...
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We study the driving forces behind the adoption of environmental innovations (EI) in the Italian industry over 2006-2008 through analyses of the new wave of Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data that covered for the first time environmental innovation adoptions. We investigate whether the first...
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The adoption and diffusion of environmental innovations (EIs) is crucial to greening the economy and achieving win-win environmental - economic gains. A large and increasing literature has focused on the levers underlying EIs that are external to the firm, such as stakeholders' pressure and...
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In this paper we empirically investigate the relationship between investments in environmentally-oriented equipment and firms' export performance. Drawing on Porter hypothesis and firm heterogeneity theory, we adopt a structural model where first we estimate the impact of green investment...
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