Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Author: G. Thomas Lumpkin
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2011-07-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1780520735

Considers the issues of social and sustainable entrepreneurship. This title tackles lingering definitional issues such as the distinctions between social, sustainable, and environmental entrepreneurship, or proposes social entrepreneurship research agendas based on key research questions found in prior studies.

Environmental Innovation and Firm Performance

Environmental Innovation and Firm Performance
Author: Javier Amores Salvadó
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2012-10-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137264047

The links between a firm's competitiveness and the natural environment have been studied since the mid 90's. This volume explores, both theoretically and empirically, the relationships between environmental product innovation, green image and firm performance.

Eco-Innovation and Sustainability Management

Eco-Innovation and Sustainability Management
Author: Bart Bossink
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2013-03-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136680799

Sustainability is a phenomenon that must be pursued in a complex system of interrelated elements of business, society, and ecology. It is important to gain an understanding of these elements, the interplay between them, and the behavior of the system. This book explores the business-societal-and-ecological system in which sustainable innovation has to be envisioned, conceptualized, realized, and improved. Author Bart Bossink offers insight into the systematic coherence of drivers of eco-innovation and sustainability utilizing a three-part approach: (1) eco- and sustainable innovation in business is based on ideas and people who cooperatively develop these ideas; (2) groups of people, organized in commercial firms, must realize these ideas cooperatively and create the innovations that can conquer the market; and (3) that people from governmental, non-governmental, not-for-profit, research, and commercial organizations can build institutional arrangements that stimulate these sustainable innovations, changing both industry and society. Adopting a managerial perspective and discussing concepts and methods to manage eco-innovation in business, this book highlights the interrelated roles of the individual, the firm, partnerships, and business environments. Researchers and practitioners who want to combine a commercial and economical approach with an ethical and social ambition to create an ecologically sustainable firm stand to learn much from these pages.

Industrial Innovation and Environmental Regulation

Industrial Innovation and Environmental Regulation
Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher: IDRC
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9280811274

What role should governments play in protecting the environment and controlling the environmental impacts of industry? Do regulations benefit the environment? And how do they affect industrial innovation? Since the early 1970s, regulations have been used to coerce producers of goods and services into internalizing the environmental costs of production. These efforts have often faced opposition on practical and ideological grounds. Beginning in the 1980s, there has been a movement toward liberalization, coupled with the continued failure of the market to protect the environment as a public good. As a result, private and public sector interests have been debating the appropriate role of governments in protecting and improving the environment and controlling the environmental impact of industry. Using case studies from numerous countries, this book examines political and industrial trends and the responses to these challenges. The authors conclude that the complexities of environmental and economic relationships disallow universal solutions, and they stress the need for context-specific perspectives on the role of regulatory measures in environmental innovation.

New Technologies and Environmental Innovation

New Technologies and Environmental Innovation
Author: Joseph Huber
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781781957936

'Joseph Huber's book contains a wealth of information on technological environmental innovations. The scrutiny of this material leads to powerful conclusions, with which scholars should concern themselves. Highly recommended.' - René Kemp, Maastricht University, The Netherlands 'This timely and impressive volume brings technology back into the centre of discussions and debates on environmental reform. In articulating an ecological modernisation perspective, Joseph Huber presents an inspiring, optimistic and at times provocative assessment of the potential and future role of radical technological innovations in greening production-consumption cycles.' - Arthur P.J. Mol, Wageningen University, The Netherlands In this insightful book, Joseph Huber investigates the life cycle analysis of technological and environmental innovations (TEIs). TEIs are new technologies, products and practices which have benign environmental effects and which can increase eco-efficiency. More importantly, they can also improve 'metabolic consistency', thus laying the foundations for a sustainable industrial ecology.

Eco-Innovation

Eco-Innovation
Author: Javier Carrillo-Hermosilla
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2009-08-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230244858

Eco-Innovation considers the impact industry has on our environmental surroundings whilst exploring the need for more sustainable development. The concept of sustainable development and the general understanding of the interdependence of the environment and the economy are both examined in this thought-provoking new book.

Environmental Innovation and Firm Performance

Environmental Innovation and Firm Performance
Author: Javier Amores Salvadó
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2012-10-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781349348954

The links between a firm's competitiveness and the natural environment have been studied since the mid 90's. This volume explores, both theoretically and empirically, the relationships between environmental product innovation, green image and firm performance.

Innovation and Firm Performance

Innovation and Firm Performance
Author: A. Kleinknecht
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2001-12-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 023059588X

The emergence of new firm-level data, including the European Community Innovation Survey (CIS), has led to a surge of studies on innovation and firm behaviour. This book documents progress in four interrelated fields: · investigation of the use of new indicators of innovation output · investigation of determinants of innovative behaviour · the role of spillovers, the public knowledge infrastructure and research and development collaboration · The impact of innovation on firm performance Written by an international group of contributors, the studies are based on agriculture and the manufacturing and service industries in Europe and Canada and provide new insights into the driving forces behind innovation.

Innovation and Growth

Innovation and Growth
Author: F. M. Scherer
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Total Pages: 297
Release: 1986
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780262691024

Outlines, in text and illustrations, the development of computers, how they work, and their many uses.