The Influence of Technology Differences on Corporate Environmental Patents: A Resource-Based Versus an Institutional View of Green Innovations

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 421-434

  Aragon Correa, Juan Alberto ^a   Leyva de la Hiz, Dante I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

environmental patents; green technology; innovation; institutional theory; organizations and the natural environment; resource based view

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; INNOVATION; PROPERTY RIGHTS;

EID: 84987899159     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1885     Document Type: Article

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