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Environmental management systems and technological environmental innovations: Exploring the causal relationship |
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| Authors: | Andreas Ziegler Jazmin Seijas Nogareda |
| Institution: | a University of Zurich (Center for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability), Künstlergasse 15a, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland b Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich (Center of Economic Research), Zürichbergstrasse 18, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland c Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich (Center for Comparative and International Studies), Seilergraben 49, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland |
| Abstract: | Within the discussion of voluntary proactive approaches to environmental protection, former micro-econometric studies analyze the causal effect of the adoption of environmental management systems (EMS) on technological environmental innovations and find some positive impacts. Based on empirical studies which consider the effect of general innovativeness on the adoption of voluntary environmental programs (VEP) as well as based on insights from the resource-based view of the firm, we contrarily hypothesize in this paper that EMS could also reversely be affected by environmental product or process innovations. This hypothesis is empirically examined with a unique firm-level data set from the German manufacturing sector. Our econometric analyses with uni- and multivariate probit models imply a significantly positive effect of environmental process innovations on certified EMS. According to this, the causal relationship between EMS and technological environmental innovations is obviously not clear. |
| Keywords: | Voluntary environmental programs Environmental management systems ISO 14001 EMAS Environmental product and process innovations |
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