Page 6 - Hojnik, Jana. 2017. In Persuit of Eco-innovation. Drivers and Consequences of Eco-innovation at Firm Level. Koper: University of Primorska Press

In Pursuit of Eco-innovation

Society • 80
Expected benefits from eco-innovation • 81
Sources of information • 84
Organizational capabilities • 85
Managerial environmental concern • 86
Company’s general characteristics (firm size and firm age) • 90
Consequences of Eco-innovation Adoption • 95
Firm performance • 98
Internationalization • 106
Competitive advantage • 108
Hypotheses Development • 111
Hypotheses concerning antecedents of eco-innovations • 111

Environmental policy instruments and eco-innovation • 111
6 Customer demand and eco-innovation • 114

Managerial environmental concern and eco-innovation • 115
Expected benefits and eco-innovation • 116

Firm reputation • 117
Cost savings • 118
Competition and eco-innovation • 118
Hypotheses concerning consequences of eco-innovation • 119
Eco-innovation and firm performance • 119
Eco-innovation and economic performance • 121
Eco-innovation and competitive benefits • 121
Eco-innovation and internationalization • 122
Methodology • 125
Preliminary testing of questionnaire • 125
Research instrument and operationalization of variables
and measures • 126
Measures for eco-innovation antecedents • 126
Measures for eco-innovation dimensions • 129
Measures for consequences/outcomes of eco-innovation • 131
Sampling and data collection • 133
Common method variance assessment • 136
Data analyses • 136
Evaluation of the results • 140
Results • 147
Sample characteristics • 147
Eco-innovation determinants • 154
Managerial environmental concern • 155
Expected benefits • 158
Environmental policy instruments • 163