End-of-pipe or cleaner production? An empirical comparison of environmental innovation decisions across OECD countries

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 571-584

  Frondel, Manuel ^a   Horbach, Jens ^a   Rennings, Klaus ^a  

^a ANHALT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cleaner production; Discrete choice models; End of pipe technologies; Government policy; Technological innovation

Indexed keywords

ABATEMENT COST; CLEANER PRODUCTION; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INNOVATION; OECD; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 36749060838     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.496     Document Type: Article

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