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Title Impact of Green Innovation on Labor Productivity and its Determinants: an Analysis of the Korean Manufacturing Industry
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Authors Woo, C; Chung, Y; Chun, D; Han, S; Lee, D
Title Impact of Green Innovation on Labor Productivity and its Determinants: an Analysis of the Korean Manufacturing Industry
Year 2014
Published Business Strategy And The Environment, 23, 8
DOI 10.1002/bse.1807
Abstract Due to worsening environmental conditions around the globe, firms have been investing a great deal of money in green technologies as a way of coping with the environmental crisis. This paper uses a unique data set based on the Korea Innovation Survey to examine the impact of green innovation on labor productivity, and the determinants of environmental activities in 2010. The empirical results show that green innovation intended for both firm and customer benefits has a positive effect on labor productivity. This finding means that firms need to implement firm-oriented green innovation as well as customer-oriented green innovation in order to increase their performance. Our findings also show that there are significant differences in aggregate green innovations depending on different firm sizes and industries. Specifically, large firms implement environmental activities more than small ones, and pollution-intensive industries tend to invest more in activities related to environmental technology. Copyright (c) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.
Author Keywords green innovation; labor productivity; pollution-intensive industry; firm size; environmental policy; Korean manufacturing industry
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:000346962800005
WoS Category Business; Environmental Studies; Management
Research Area Business & Economics; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
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