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

Environmental Policy and Corporate Behaviour

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 174-212

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

^a RWI LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b ANHALT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

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