This paper presents industry-related explanations for the implementation of corporate environmental policies in subsidiaries of transnational corporations. More specifically, it presents the findings from three cases in the Brazilian chemical sector, which were investigated in order to evaluate...

The chemical fertilizer industry has made great contributions to China's food security. Existing studies mainly focus on evaluating fertilizer use efficiency at the farm level whereas little is known about the technical efficiency of Chinese firms producing fertilizer. Based on the Chinese...

This paper analyzes the impact of process control technology on production performance and economies of scale of the Turkish chemical industry. In theory, the application of new technologies leads to significant improvements in production performance which is also observed in our case study...

Stigler (1951) formalized the Smithian notion that the division of labor is limited by the extent of the market. Bresnahan and Gambardella (1998) make an analytical distinction between two dimensions of market size - the breadth and depth of markets - in terms of the effects on the division of...

Korea has maintained highly energy and resource-dependent industries since the late 1970s after turning from light industries such as the textile industry, to heavy industries such as shipbuilding, iron and steel, petrochemical and automobile as the nation’s major industries. Inevitably,...

While abundant literature evaluates how the adoption of proactive environmental strategies affects corporate performance, we have little understanding of the organizational mechanisms that link such strategies to competitive advantage. It is therefore unclear how environmental strategies relate...

We use a hazard model to estimate the effect of environmental regulation on the diffusion of membrane cell production technology in the chlorine manufacturing industry. We estimate the effect of regulation on both the adoption of the membrane technology at existing plants and on the exit of...

This paper assesses the role of intra-sectoral spillovers in total factor productivity across Chinese producers in the chemical industry. We use a rich panel data-set of 12,552 firms observed over the period 2004-2006 and model output by the firm as a function of skilled and unskilled labor,...