Drivers of integrated environmental innovation and impact on company competitiveness: Evidence from 18 Chinese firms

International Journal of Technology and Globalisation

Volumn 5, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 255-280

  Liu, Xielin ^a   Dai, Hongyi ^b   Cheng, Peng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b Ministry of Industry and Information   (China)

Author keywords

Company competitiveness; Environmental innovation; Environmental regulation; Porter Hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954543402     PISSN: 14765667     EISSN: 17418194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJTG.2011.039767     Document Type: Article

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