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Disentangling Specific Subsets of Innovations: A Micro-Econometric Analysis of their Determinants
Based on a unique firm-level data set from the German manufacturing sector, this paper disentangles environmental and non-environmental product and process innovations. The multivariate probit analysis shows that the various innovation types are determined by different factors. The estimation results suggest a policy mix which comprises the encouragement of R&D activities,...
Institution partenaire
English / 11/09/2009
Disentangling Specific Subsets of Innovations: An Empirical Analysis for German Firms
Based on a unique firm-level data set from the German manufacturing sector, this paper disentangles environmental and non-environmental product and process innovations. The multivariate probit analysis shows that the various innovation types are determined by different factors. The estimation results suggest a policy mix which comprises the encouragement of R&D activities,...
Institution partenaire
English / 02/07/2009
A model of corporate sustainability
The discussion of corporate sustainability (CS) is hindered by a lack of definitional clarity of the concept of CS and neighboring concepts. Therefore in this paper a framework of corporate sustainability is construdted from information derived from guidelines concerning corporate sustainability. Within this framework, a differentiation between sustainability performance and its...
Institution partenaire
English / 02/07/2009
The unrecognized future dimension of corporate sustainability assessment
Companies play a central role on the way towards sustainable development. Over the last years, many approaches have emerged that attempt to measure companies’ contribution to sustainable development, i.e. corporate sustainability. Our analysis of existing approaches reveals two major shortcomings. First, value creation as a core condition for sustainability as well as for further...
Institution partenaire
English / 16/06/2009
Environmental management systems and technological environmental innovations: Exploring the causal relationship
Within the discussion of voluntary proactive approaches to environmental protection, former microeconometric studies analyze the causal effect of the adoption of environmental management systems (EMS) on technological environmental innovations and find some positive impacts. Based on empirical studies which consider the effect of general innovativeness on the adoption of voluntary...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2009
2002 German Federal Elections and Associated Energy Policy: How were Energy Corporations financially affected
This paper analyzes the effect of the 2002 German federal elections to the Lower House of Parliament (Bundestag) on the financial performance of German energy corporations.We consider the last minute victory of the government coalition consisting of Social Democrats and the Green party which was generally associated with a major shift in energy policy towards the promotion of...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
The effect of CSR on stock performance: new evidence for the USA and Europe
This paper provides new empirical evidence for the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on corporate financial performance. In contrast to former studies, we examine two different regions, namely the USA and Europe. Our econometric analysis shows that envi-ronmental and social activities of a firm compared with other firms within the industry are valued by financial...
Institution partenaire
English / 28/06/2008
On the self-serving use of equity in international climate negotiations
We discuss self-serving uses of equity in international climate negotiations. Using unique data from a world-wide survey of agents involved in international climate policy, we show that the perceived support of different equity rules by countries can be explained by the ranking of their economic costs. Despite being self-serving, equity arguments may be perceived as being used for...
Institution partenaire
English / 05/06/2008
Exploring the linkages of commerce, higher education and human development: a historical review
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2007
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