The firms’ performance assessment for regulation requires estimating profit change and its drivers. This study estimates and decomposes profit changes into components such as output and input price changes, output growth, and markups. Using the stochastic frontier analysis, we compute the...

Seit der Konferenz der Vereinten Nationen über Umwelt und Entwicklung in Rio de Janeiro im Jahre 1992 hat der Begriff "Sustainable Development" als Leitvorstellung der Entwicklung von Nationen, Regionen und Gemeinden Eingang in die wissenschaftliche und politische Diskussion gefunden....

Based on the results of our research, we have developed a reliable and valid scale for assessing the innovation success of sustainable development practices, with a specific focus on reducing drinking water consumption in the production sector, where so-called industrial water is used (for...