Environmental innovation and firm profitability: An analysis with respect to firm size
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Keywords
Firm Behavior; Firm Size; Porter hypothesis; Environmental Technology Adaption; Technological Innovation; Environmental Regulation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
- L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
- Q52 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects
- Q55 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation
- Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CSE-2019-09-09 (Economics of Strategic Management)
- NEP-EFF-2019-09-09 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-ENE-2019-09-09 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENT-2019-09-09 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-ENV-2019-09-09 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-EUR-2019-09-09 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-RES-2019-09-09 (Resource Economics)
- NEP-SBM-2019-09-09 (Small Business Management)
- NEP-TID-2019-09-09 (Technology and Industrial Dynamics)
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