End-of-pipe and cleaner production technologies. Do policy instruments and organizational capabilities matter? Evidence from Spanish firms
| Autor: | Kinga Barbara Tchorzewska, Jose Garcia-Quevedo, Ester Martinez-Ros |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Auditoria ambiental
Ecologia industrial Industrial ecology Gestió de la innovació Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Strategy and Management Eficàcia organitzativa Organizational effectiveness Building and Construction Environmental auditing Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Innovation management General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Dipòsit Digital de la UB Universidad de Barcelona |
| Popis: | This paper focuses on the drivers of green technology adoption. We distinguish between end-of-pipe and cleaner production technologies aimed at either pollution mitigation or energy efficiency, respectively. We provide empirical evidence of the relations between existing policy instruments, organizational capabilities of firms and the adoption of different types of green technologies. We use a unique firm level panel dataset of 2562 Spanish manufacturing firms from 2008 to 2014 to carry out the empirical analysis. Our results show, first, that policy instruments drive adoption of green innovation more than organizational capabilities. Second, environmental taxation seems to be ineffective at stimulating the adoption of eco-innovation. Third, both investment subsidies and tax credits do imply higher levels of investments in green technologies. Tax incentives seem to mostly foster cleaner production technologies, while subsidies are used to finance all types of eco-innovations. Fourth, human resources as green employees are positively related with environmental investments. Finally, dynamic capabilities as the introduction of environmental management systems are correlated particularly with cleaner production investments oriented to reduce energy consumption. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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