Can institutional forces create competitive advantage? An empirical examination of environmental innovation

Pascual Berrone; Liliana Gelabert; Andrea Fosfuri; Luis R. Gomez-Mejia

doi:10.5465/ambpp.2008.33628987

Can institutional forces create competitive advantage? An empirical examination of environmental innovation

Pascual Berrone, Liliana Gelabert, Andrea Fosfuri, Luis R. Gomez-Mejia

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Abstract

We examine institutional pressures as antecedents of environmental innovation. Drawing on institutional theory and resourced-based view of the firm, we argue that regulatory and normative forces influence the firms' propensity to innovate in environmental-related projects. Furthermore, we suggest that these relationships are contingent to the availability and specificity of the firms' resources. Our contention was tested using environmental patents and citations of 340 publicly traded firms from polluting industries in the U.S. Results suggest that institutional pressures can be a source of competitive advantage and regulatory forces are more strongly associated with environmental innovations when specific assets are present.

Original language	English (US)
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2008.33628987
State	Published - 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	68th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2008 - Anaheim, CA, United States Duration: Aug 8 2008 → Aug 13 2008

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Other	68th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2008
Country/Territory	United States
City	Anaheim, CA
Period	8/8/08 → 8/13/08

Keywords

Environmental innovation
Institutional theory
Resource-based view

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Management Information Systems
Management of Technology and Innovation

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