Essays on eco-innovation and firm performance in France

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Zhou, Zuokuan (2020). Essays on eco-innovation and firm performance in France. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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Abstract

To mitigate environmental concerns and fight against climate change, eco-innovation provides an opportunity to establish France's leading role to overcome sustainability challenges. In this thesis, we investigate different aspects of eco-innovation focusing on French manufacturing firms. Firstly, we examine how collaboration between firms affects the decision of firms that currently undertake R&D to take the next step and also invest in increasingly complex environmental or eco-innovation. Our results show that R&D collaboration is essential in stimulating eco-innovation. Secondly, we examine whether stringent environmental regulations harm firm competitiveness and further whether regulatory induced eco-innovation could offset environmental abatement pressure. Our results suggest that regulations harm business competitiveness and the intermediate effect of eco-innovation is not effective. Finally, we investigate whether firms investing in eco-innovation meet their environmental targets and remain competitive and more specifically, whether eco-innovation helps firms to improve their environmental performance. Results suggest that eco-innovation does not exhibit a significant effect on environmental performance for French manufacturing firms. Overall, this thesis emphasizes the lack of effectiveness of eco-innovation in France, we hope that this thesis can shed some light on the direction of further research.

Type of Work: Thesis (Doctorates > Ph.D.)
Award Type: Doctorates > Ph.D.
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Supervisor(s)EmailORCID
Elliott, RobertUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Jabbour, LizaUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Licence: All rights reserved
College/Faculty: Colleges (2008 onwards) > College of Social Sciences
School or Department: Department of Economics Birmingham Business School
Funders: None/not applicable
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
H Social Sciences > HF Commerce
URI: http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/10465

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