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Twenty years ago, Harvard Business School economist and strategy professor Michael Porter stood conventional wisdom about the impact of environmental regulation on business on its head by declaring that well designed regulation could actually enhance competitiveness. The traditional view of...
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, namely the process of innovation as a key determinant in the greening of markets. This second section intends to (1) identify … the specificities of innovation in an environmental context in order to acknowledge the need for a holistic and …'un aspect fondamental de la PIP, à savoir le processus d'innovation en tant que déterminant majeur dans la transformation des …
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may induce cost-saving innovation that more than compensates for the cost of compliance. In this paper, we test the … induire davantage de gains en termes d'innovation que de coûts pour se conformer à la règle. Dans cet article, nous examinons …
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-environmental practices; to our knowledge, nobody has done it in such a systematic way as that presented here. Moreover, the concrete examples … plus strictes peut stimuler l'innovation et, par là même, aboutir à une compensation des coûts supportés par les …
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Small and medium enterprises have strengthened their importance during the last decades in most industrialized countries, including the United States, Germany, Japan and Canada. The province of Quebec makes no exception as firms of less than 200 employees generate a substantial portion of its...
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This paper presents empirical evidence on the relationship between innovative efforts and performance on international markets for the specific case of small firms acting as specialized suppliers. In addition to tangible efforts such as R&D expenditures, intangible efforts are also considered....
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