Evaluating environmental regulation in Spain using process control and preventive techniques

The effect of environmental regulation on firms’ competitive performance: The case of the building & construction sector in some EU regions

“…A very interesting, and somewhat surprising, result is the positive and strongly significant effect of inspection frequency on the improvement in "business performance", in particular those generated by green products. Although the difficulty in isolating the effect of regulation on business performance is very high (López-Gamero et al, 2009) (e.g. : confounding factors related to the product's quality, marketing strategy and so on should be avoided), our results clearly emphasise that a more stringent regulation also stimulates firms to concentrate their efforts on more environmental-friendly products and enables them to get, as a consequence, good responses by the market.…”

Investigating external environmental pressure on firms and their behavior in Yangtze River Delta of China

“…The process of developing the questionnaire involved: specifying the domain of external environmental pressure on firms and their behavior; then 2 The international standard primarily concerned with an Environmental Management System. 3 designing the items of different facets and purifying them; at last assessing reliability and validity of the questionnaire.…”

“…The first research stream focused on governmental regulation, which was an important factor affecting environmental behavior of firms [1,2]. Traditionally, researchers have argued that government inspections and enforcement are the main factors influencing environmental behavior of firms.…”

Analysis on China's eco-innovations: Regulation context, intertemporal change and regional differences

“…Yet due to the existence of dual externalities including environmental externalities and knowledge spillovers, firms lack the incentives to invest voluntarily in eco-innovation activities (Jaffe, Newell, & Stavins, 2003). In this context, some normative analysis suggest that public policies on energy saving and environmental protection, when appropriately designed, can stimulate the innovation and adoption of environmental-friendly technologies (López-Gamero, Claver-Cortés, & Molina-Azorín, 2009;Perino & Requate, 2012).…”