Innovation is a key component of a firm's strategy to improve market competitiveness and operational efficiency as well as to respond effectively to changing consumer preferences and regulations. A firm has the choice of undertaking different types of innovations that differ in the extent to...

Many firms are undertaking environmentally friendly organizational change by applying the philosophy of Total Quality Management with its emphasis on reducing waste and increasing efficiency to improve their management of pollution. This paper investigates the factors that lead to total quality...

This paper investigates the effectiveness of voluntary pollution prevention activities in reducing toxic releases of facilities that report to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) from 1991-2001 using GMM dynamic panel data models that recognize the potential endogeneity of the pollution...