Do Environmental Regulations Stimulate Firms’ R&D, Product Innovation, or Environmental Awareness? Putting Porter’s Hypothesis in the Context of Central and Eastern European Countries
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<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-08313-6_10" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-08313-6_10</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08313-6_10" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-08313-6_10</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Do Environmental Regulations Stimulate Firms’ R&D, Product Innovation, or Environmental Awareness? Putting Porter’s Hypothesis in the Context of Central and Eastern European Countries
Original language description
This chapter is based on analyzing Porter’s hypothesis stating that pollution could be seen as a kind of resource waste and that a firm’s reuse of this waste could lead to the firm’s competitive advantage, higher R&D, product innovation, and performance. However, countries in the Europe differ due to their historical legacy. Using data from the World Bank’s Enterprise Survey (2019), we put Porter’s hypothesis in the context of the “catching-up” countries of Central and Eastern Europe (the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania). These countries differ significantly from their Western neighbors, especially in terms of lower innovation performance and environmental awareness. The results of our analyses confirm the importance of environmental regulations and their influence on firms’ R&D but also show them to be triggers for environmental awareness among firms. By contrast, we do not confirm the validity of the strong version of Porter’s hypothesis, which expects environmental regulations to impact the performance of firms in the countries studied. In addition, we point out an important role of firms’ R&D within product innovation processes. This chapter brings several contributions. From the theoretical point of view, we link theory regarding the validity of Porter’s hypothesis on the “catching-up literature” and on firms’ environmental awareness. From the practical perspective, we provide practical implications.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-03037S" target="_blank" >GA20-03037S: Towards a dynamic knowledge-based business model for open innovations</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Business Models for the Circular Economy : A European Perspective
ISBN
978-3-031-08312-9
Number of pages of the result
29
Pages from-to
241-269
Number of pages of the book
269
Publisher name
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Place of publication
Cham
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