The role of process innovativeness in the development of environmental innovativeness capability

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 142, Issue , 2017, Pages 2423-2434

  Rodriguez, Jorge A ^a   Wiengarten, Frank ^b  

^a ESPAE Graduate School of Management   (Ecuador)

^b ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental innovativeness capability; Process innovativeness capability; Stakeholders R D cooperation

Indexed keywords

MACHINERY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COMMUNITY INNOVATION SURVEYS; DEVELOPMENT COOPERATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATIONS; INNOVATIVENESS; PUBLIC RESEARCH; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 85027949218     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.11.033     Document Type: Article

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