RT Generic
T1 Can Institutional Forces Create Competitive Advantage? An Empirical Examination of Environmental Innovation
A1 Berrone, Pascual
A1 Gelabert, Liliana
A1 Fosfuri, Andrea
A2 IESE Business School. University of Navarra, 
AB We examine institutional pressures as antecedents of environmental innovation. Drawing on institutional theory and a resource-based view of the firm, we argue that regulatory and normative forces influence companies' propensity to innovate in environment-related projects. Furthermore, we suggest that this relationship is contingent on the availability and specificity of the companies' resources. These relationships were tested using environmental patents and citations of 340 publicly-traded companies from polluting industries in the U.S. Results suggest that institutional pressures can be a source of competitive advantage, and regulatory forces are becoming more strongly associated with environmental innovations as the intensity of companies' R&D activities increase.
YR 2007
FD 2007-11
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/6718
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/6718
LA eng
DS e-Archivo
RD 19 may. 2024