Curvilinear Relationship between Corporate Innovation and Environmental Sustainability

• Published in: Sustainability Vol. 9; no. 7; p. 1267
• Main Authors: Lee, Jegoo, Kim, Sang-Joon
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 20.07.2017
• Subjects: Costs; Environmental management; Innovations; Resource allocation; Sustainability; Sustainable development; Tradeoffs

This paper proposes and tests the impacts of firms’ innovation activities, such as patents, on their involvement in environmental sustainability, such as environmental performance. Combining resource allocation and eco-innovation perspectives assuming constant levels of trade-off costs, this study p...