The Impact of Eco-Innovation on Performance Through the Measurement of Financial Resources and Green Patents

The main objective of this article is to contribute empirically to the understanding of the impact that eco-innovation has on firms’ financial performance within the framework of the resources-based view. Specifically, eco-innovation is measured by using eco-innovative activities and financial resources applied to eco-innovation to argue that the identification and measurement of certain resources of firms allow companies that are particularly active in investing in eco-innovation to be more competitive. Furthermore, the analysis attempts to ascertain whether firms that own green patents and other characteristics exhibit different level of financial performance than firms without registered green patents. The empirical partial least squares structural equation modeling results indicate a positive relationship between the investment of resources and the financial performance of eco-innovative firms. The effects of involving managers in eco-innovative processes as an environmental capability of firms are also tested

Spot market versus incentive contract

This paper attempts to develop a consistent theory for the choice of performance contracts in agriculture by analyzing the trade-off between quantity and quality and the presence of competence and uncertainty on the basis of the expected utility theory. This theory is able to explain many contract-related issues, such as why the performance contract can be optimal even providing lesser quantity and quality than the spot market and why a trade-off between processor and consume interests about mechanism choice can exist, utilizing a simulation exercise

An Approach to the Measurement of the Social Impact of Environmental Innovation

According to the Triple BottomLine (TBL) framework, this study has built aknowledge network from a structured literaturereview about the eco-innovations socialdimension. This study has found indicators definedand classified according to the Firms' Stakeholders.It proposes a first approach to advance the analysisof relationships between Stakeholders, Firms, andEco-innovation and allow new measurements in thesocial dimension of investment eco-innovation