Green innovations and organizational change: Making better use of environmental technology

Arbeitspapier

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement technologies imposed by public authority as to reduce social costs of climate change while they are not necessarily expected to increase private returns. Previous research, however, has largely neglected this aspect. Using German firm-level data, we find that organizational change increases the returns to he use of CO2 reducing technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 12-043

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes ; Management of Technological Innovation and R&D ; Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation ; Organization of Production ; Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
• Thema: firm behavior ; technical change ; innovation ; environmental innovation ; organizational change ; productivity

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Hottenrott, Hanna ; Rexhäuser, Sascha ; Veugelers, Reinhilde
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/60106