What drives eco-innovation?

ǂA ǂreview of an emerging literature

Jana Hojnik (Author), Mitja Ruzzier (Author)

Abstract

tThis paper provides an overview of the emerging literature on the drivers of eco-innovation.Its main contribution lies in separating the drivers associated with the phases of develop-ment and diffusion and in identifying particular drivers based on different eco-innovationtypes. We find that research in this area primarily adopts the resource-based and institu-tional theories as its theoretical foundations and that the prevailing effects identified arethose of regulations and market pull factors. Moreover, product eco-innovation, processeco-innovation, organizational eco-innovation, and environmental R&D investments seemto be driven by common drivers, such as regulations, market pull factors, EMS, and cost sav-ings, as well as to be positively associated with company size. The majority of the studiesin our literature review employ a quantitative research methodology and focus on the dif-fusion stage of eco-innovation. We end with providing a synthesis of drivers of companies%eco-innovation and directions for future research.

Keywords

eco-innovation;environmental innovation;innovation drivers;R&D;adoption;diffusion;

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Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2016
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	UP FM - Faculty of Management Koper
UDC:	001.895
COBISS:	1538015172
ISSN:	2210-4224
Views:	4741
Downloads:	163
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Secondary language:	Unknown
Type (COBISS):	Not categorized
Pages:	Str. 31-41
Issue:	ǂVol. ǂ19
Chronology:	2016
DOI:	10.1016/j.eist.2015.09.006
ID:	9159898