Ozusaglam, S, Kesidou, E orcid.org/0000-0002-5729-8624 and Wong, CY orcid.org/0000-0002-4933-1770 (2018) Performance effects of complementarity between environmental management systems and environmental technologies. International Journal of Production Economics, 197. pp. 112-122. ISSN 0925-5273
Abstract
This paper analyzes whether the performance effects of environmental management systems (EMS) and environmental technologies (ET) can be enhanced by the complementarity between them. Our complementarity hypotheses are theoretically grounded in the strategic fit and asset complementarity approaches of the resource-based view of the firm. We examine two distinct types of ET: externality-reducing technologies (ERT) that focus on reducing emission and pollution, and efficiency-increasing technologies (EIT) that emphasize reduction of material and energy consumption. Results based on a sample of 36,645 firms from eight countries show that three-way complementarities exist, in that firms that adopted EMS and the two types of ET achieved higher turnover growth compared to those firms that adopted either EMS, ERT or EIT singularly, or none of them.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of a paper published in International Journal of Production Economics. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Environmental management systems; Environmental technologies; Complementarity analysis; Firm performance |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Economics Division (LUBS) (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) > Logistics, Info, Ops and Networks (LION) (LUBS) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 10 Jan 2018 16:02 |
Last Modified: | 28 Jun 2019 00:39 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.ijpe.2017.12.026 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:126044 |