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Article
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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
1.5 EARTH AND RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Abstract
An effective climate change action involves the critical role that companies must play in assuring the long-term human and social well-being of future generations. In our study, we offer a more holistic, inclusive, both–and approach to the challenge of environmental innovation (EI) that uses a novel methodology to identify relevant configurations for firms engaging in a superior EI strategy. A conceptual framework is proposed that identifies six sets of driving characteristics of EI and two sets of beneficial outcomes, all inherently tensional. Our analysis utilizes a complementary rather than an oppositional point of view. A data set of 65 companies in the ICT value chain is analyzed via fuzzy-set comparative analysis (fsQCA) and a post-QCA procedure. The results reveal that achieving a superior EI strategy is possible in several scenarios. Specifically, after close examination, two main configuration groups emerge, referred to as technological environmental innovators and organizational environmental innovators.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/10860266211031623
Recommended Citation
Russo-Spena, T., DiPaola, N. & O'Driscoll, A. (2021). Configurations to Superior Environmental Innovation Strategy: A Both–And Approach. Organization & Environment, vol. 35, no. 3, pg. 468–494. doi:10.1177/10860266211031623
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