Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/60106
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 12-043
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement technologies imposed by public authority as to reduce social costs of climate change while they are not necessarily expected to increase private returns. Previous research, however, has largely neglected this aspect. Using German firm-level data, we find that organizational change increases the returns to he use of CO2 reducing technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity.
Subjects: 
firm behavior
technical change
innovation
environmental innovation
organizational change
productivity
JEL: 
D23
O33
O32
Q55
L23
D24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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