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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level: empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries
Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297743
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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level : empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries
Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445814
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The Impact of Regulation-Driven Environmental Innovation on Innovation Success and Firm Performance
Rennings, Klaus; Rammer, Christian - In: Industry and Innovation 18 (2011) 3, pp. 255-283
-driven environmental innovation may impose additional costs to firms and lower their profits. On the other hand, eco-innovators could … profit from lower uncertainty in innovation due to regulatory standards and demand-generating effects of regulation. In this … paper we analyse (a) whether regulation-driven environmental innovation generates similar innovation success compared to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009279467
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Employment changes in environmentally innovative firms
Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001
prone to increase employment, while firms that want to slash costs by innovation and compete by soft factors decrease …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957634
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What Triggers Environmental Management and Innovation? - Empirical Evidence for Germany
Rennings, Klaus; Horbach, Jens; Frondel, Manuel - 2004
relating to the relevant incentives for (1) a firm's voluntary adoption of an EMS and (2) its environmental innovation behavior … bivariate probit model that explicitly takes into account that a facility's decision on innovation activities is correlated with … the decision on EMS certification. Our empirical results indicate that environmental innovation activities are not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261020
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Environmental Policy Tools and Firm-Level Management Practices: Empirical Evidence for Germany
Frondel, Manuel; Horbach, Jens; Rennings, Klaus; … - 2004
organizational environmental innovation that may lead to improved environmental performance. While the paper provides a descriptive … analysis of the determinants for EMS-adoption and incentives that may trigger environmental innovation activities within German … the process of complex firm decisions on innovation and environmental performance. While the relevant literature on these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296227
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Determinants of Environmental Innovations in Germany: Do Organizational Measures Matter? A Discrete Choice Analysis at the Firm Level
Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - 2004
realization of an environmental product and a process innovation, indeed only compared with the realization of no environmental … innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297352
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Integrated Product Policy and Environmental Product Innovations: An Empirical Analysis
Rehfeld, Katharina-Maria; Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - 2004
The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the ?Integrated Product Policy?. The objective of the IPP is to support the realisation of environmental product innovations and thus to achieve a broad reduction of all environmental impacts throughout a product?s life cycle....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297394
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Employment impacts of cleaner production: evidence from a German study using case studies and surveys
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Rennings, Klaus - 1999
The study assesses net employment effects of technical progress which can be expected by the ongoing transition from end-of-pipe technologies towards cleaner production. Empirical evidence is presented on the basis of case studies and panel data including a telephone survey in German industry....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297631
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Towards a Theory and Policy of Eco-Innovation - Neoclassical and (Co-)Evolutionary Perspectives
Rennings, Klaus - 1998
Innovation processes toward sustainable development (eco-innovations) have received increasing attention during the … need can be identified to improve our understanding of innovation processes toward sustainability in their different … (co-)evolutionary approaches from environmental and innovation economics to fill this gap. It is argued that both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297891