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2006-06Type
- Working Paper
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Abstract
In this paper, we analyze potential endogeneity problems in former econometric studies which regress corporate environmental performance such as green technology activities on green management. Based on evolutionary theory and the resource-based view of the firm, we discuss in the first step that green technology could also influence green management and that unobserved firm characteristics could simultaneously influence green management and green technology. Contrary to existing studies, we empirically explore in the second step the structural reverse causality hypothesis with a unique crosssectional firm-level data set from the German manufacturing sector. Our econometric analyses with uni- and multivariate probit models imply a significantly positive effect of environmental process innovations on certified environmental management systems and a significantly positive impact of environmental product innovations on life cycle assessment activities. We interpret these empirical results as a further indicator that the causal relationship between green management and green technology is not clear. We conclude that panel data, which are not available for technological environmental innovations yet, are a necessary condition to solve these endogeneity problems. Such panel data studies could therefore be an appropriate basis for robust conclusions with regard to voluntary green management measures as a non-mandatory approach in environmental policy. Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-005389065Publication status
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Center for Comparative and International StudiesSubject
Green management; Endogeneity; UMWELTORIENTIERTES MANAGEMENT (UNTERNEHMENSFÜHRUNG); Non-mandatory environmental policy; Unobunobserved firm heterogeneity; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, PROGRAMS AND OBJECTIVES OF ENTERPRISES; Structural reverse causality; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY + ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION POLICY + NATURE CONSERVATION POLICY (POLITICS); Uni- and multivariate probit models; Green technology; ÖKONOMETRIE; ECONOMETRICS; UMWELTPOLITIK + UMWELTSCHUTZPOLITIK + NATURSCHUTZPOLITIK (POLITIK); ENVIRONMENTALLY COMPATIBLE MANAGEMENT (BUSINESS MANAGEMENT); UMWELTPOLITIK, UMWELTPROGRAMM, UMWELTZIELE EINES BETRIEBESOrganisational unit
02052 - C. for Compar. and Intern. Studies (CIS)03635 - Bretschger, Lucas (emeritus) / Bretschger, Lucas (emeritus)
03446 - Bernauer, Thomas / Bernauer, Thomas
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