The double-edged role of firm environmental behaviour in the creation of product innovation in Central and Eastern European countries
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25410%2F22%3A39919528" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25410/22:39919528 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652621041573" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652621041573</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.129989" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.129989</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The double-edged role of firm environmental behaviour in the creation of product innovation in Central and Eastern European countries
Original language description
Prior research has primarily focused on how firm environmental behaviour affects firm performance and eco-innovation, whereas the mechanisms involved in this relationship were treated as a black box. This study steps back to focus on the reverse relationship between firms' environmental behaviour and 'general' product innovations in Central and Eastern European countries, which generally face low levels of consciousness about environmental issues. Specifically, we focus on the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia. The results show that firms' environmental behaviour acts in two ways and brings significant differences between the considered countries. Surprisingly, the monitoring of energy consumption helps increase firms' chance to create more product innovation in lagging countries, such as Slovakia and Poland, than in leading innovation countries, such as the Czech Republic, Lithuania, and Latvia. Moreover, adopting measures of water management proved to be a significant determinant of product innovation despite the fact that it is not often used. The presented article contributes to the current state of knowledge in the areas of (i) determinants of (eco-) innovation; (ii) ongoing discussion about the Porter hypothesis; and (iii) catching-up literature dealing with (eco-) innovation in Central and Eastern European countries. In the final section, practical contributions in the form of implications are presented.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50204 - Business and management
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
Name of the periodical
Journal of Cleaner Production
ISSN
0959-6526
e-ISSN
1879-1786
Volume of the periodical
331
Issue of the periodical within the volume
Neuveden
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
129989
UT code for WoS article
000780157900008
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85120875176