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Title: Ecological community logics, identifiable business ownership, and green innovation as a company response
Authors: BAMMENS, Yannick 
Hunermund, Paul
Issue Date: 2023
Publisher: ELSEVIER
Source: RESEARCH POLICY, 52 (8) (Art N° 104826)
Abstract: We investigate which companies are more inclined to respond with green innovation to ecological community logics. We propose that the noneconomic utility of doing so - in the form of personal reputation gains for business owners - is greater when owner identifiability is higher, and that owner identifiability therefore intensifies the effect of normative ecological community pressures on firm-level green innovation. Our hypotheses are tested on a sample of over 2800 German firms using instrumental variable regression analyses and we find empirical support for our ideas. This study advances the institutional sustainability literature by explaining how community- and firm-level attributes interact to account for heterogeneity in firms' green innovation activities.
Notes: Bammens, Y (corresponding author), Hasselt Univ, Fac Business Econ, Innovat Management Grp, Agoralaan Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium.
yannick.bammens@uhasselt.be; phu.si@cbs.dk
Keywords: Institutional logics;Community;Ecological sustainability;Innovation;Eco-innovation;Business ownership
Document URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1942/40748
ISSN: 0048-7333
e-ISSN: 1873-7625
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2023.104826
ISI #: 001027992600001
Rights: 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Category: A1
Type: Journal Contribution
Validations: ecoom 2024
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