Prior literature focused on environmental management has largely studied the external costs caused by business activities. However, less is known about which and how environmental costs are internalized by companies. This work looks for three main objectives; first, to identify and delimitate a...

Due to environmental concerns in general and climate change in special are increasing their importance in the current business context, in this chapter it is analyzed how competitive advantage could be achieved by means of the implementation of advanced environmental practices. An in-depth...

In this chapter, we pay attention to how a firm’s environmental leadership materializes through its engagement in green innovation. Green product innovation can be defined as a firm’s product activities that are related to environmental innovation, such as energy saving, pollution...