Ebook: Adoption of Environmental Innovations: The Dynamics of Innovation as Interplay between Business Competence, Environmental Orientation and Network Involvement
- Tags: Business/Management Science general, Environmental Management
- Series: Eco-Efficiency In Industry And Science 2
- Year: 1999
- Publisher: Springer Netherlands
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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How do small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) adopt environmental innovations? Do they have the necessary internal competence? Is any support offered by external parties (i.e. network involvement)? What are the policy implications? This book is based on extensive fieldwork, conducted in four traditional industrial sectors: offset printing, electroplating, textile finishing, and industrial painting. The work was carried out in Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and the UK. Twenty company-based case studies were analyzed and a telephone survey was conducted among 527 companies. As a result, the Innovation Triangle came to be formulated, which is presented here, defining and combining the determinants of SME innovativeness. The Innovation Triangle distinguishes three major determinants of innovativeness: business competence, environmental orientation, and network involvement. The Innovation Triangle allows one to diagnose current environmental and innovation policies, indicating which policy measures might be effective in increasing the adoption of environmentally friendly technologies, allowing environmental objectives to be achieved.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-18
Introduction....Pages 19-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Towards a heuristic model of adoption....Pages 25-39
Cross-sector Analysis....Pages 41-46
The Innovation Triangle....Pages 47-62
Country-specific aspects of adoption behaviours....Pages 63-69
Actors and factors of the adoption process....Pages 71-82
Policy implications....Pages 83-89
Conclusion....Pages 91-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-96
Electroplating industry....Pages 97-128
Printing industry (pre-press)....Pages 129-156
Textile-finishing industry....Pages 157-184
Industrial painting....Pages 185-214
Back Matter....Pages 215-330
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-18
Introduction....Pages 19-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Towards a heuristic model of adoption....Pages 25-39
Cross-sector Analysis....Pages 41-46
The Innovation Triangle....Pages 47-62
Country-specific aspects of adoption behaviours....Pages 63-69
Actors and factors of the adoption process....Pages 71-82
Policy implications....Pages 83-89
Conclusion....Pages 91-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-96
Electroplating industry....Pages 97-128
Printing industry (pre-press)....Pages 129-156
Textile-finishing industry....Pages 157-184
Industrial painting....Pages 185-214
Back Matter....Pages 215-330
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