Abstract
Environmental management and innovation literature has revealed gaps concerning the influence of business cooperation on environmental innovation and diffusion. Cooperation with external partners in the development of environmental innovation is explored using the Australian Business Longitudinal Database. Complementing this is the exploration of the cooperation of supply chain partners in the adoption of environmental products and processes through three case studies from the manufacturing industry.
Chapter PDF
References
Carrillo-Hermosilla, J., del Río, P., Könnölä, T.: Diversity of eco-innovations: Reflections from selected case studies. Journal of Cleaner Production 18, 1073–1083 (2010)
Klassen, R.D., Vachon, S.: Collaboration and evaluation in the supply chain: the impact on plant-level environmental investment. Production and Operations Management 12, 336–352 (2003)
Trifilova, A., Jia, J., Witzel, M., Bessant, J., Gosling, J.: Sustainable Innovation in Action: Experiences from China. In: The XXIII ISPIM Conference – Action for Innovation: Innovating from Experience, Barcelona, Spain (2012)
Hellström, T.: Dimensions of environmentally sustainable innovation: the structure of eco-innovation concepts. Sustainable Development 15, 148–159 (2007)
OECD: Eco-innovation in industry: Enabling green growth. OECD, Paris (2009)
Rennings, K.: Redefining innovation: eco-innovation research and the contribution from ecological economics. Ecological Economics 32, 319–332 (2000)
Falk, J., Ryan, C.: Inventing a sustainable future: Australia and the challenge of eco-innovation. Futures 39, 215–229 (2007)
Porter, M.E., van der Linde, C.: Toward a new conception of the environment-competitiveness relationship. Journal of Economic Perspectives 9, 97–118 (1995)
Peña, N.A., Fernández de Arroyabe, J.C.: Business cooperation from theory to practice. Palgrave Macmillan, London (2002)
Chesbrough, H.: The logic of open innovation: managing intellectual property. California Management Review 45, 33–58 (2003)
Terziovski, M.: The relationship between networking practices and business excellence: a study of small to medium enterprises (SMEs). Measuring Business Excellence 7, 78–92 (2003)
Beyerlein, M.M., Beyerlein, S.T., Kennedy, F.A.: Innovation through collaboration. JAI Press, Amsterdam (2006)
Mohannak, K.: Innovation networks and capability building in the Australian high-technology SMEs. European Journal of Innovation Management 10, 236–251 (2007)
Soosay, C.A., Hyland, P.W., Ferrer, M.: Supply chain collaboration: Capabilities for continuous innovation. Supply Chain Management 13, 160–169 (2008)
Bigliardi, B., Bottani, E., Galati, F.: Open innovation practices and supply chain management: a case study in the food machinery supply chain. International Journal of Engineering, Science and Technology 2, 244–255 (2010)
Yarahmadi, M., Higgins, P.G.: Motivations towards environmental innovation: A conceptual framework for multiparty cooperation. European Journal of Innovation Management 15, 400–420 (2012)
Biondi, V., Iraldo, F., Meredith, S.: Achieving sustainability through environmental innovation: The role of SMEs. International Journal of Technology Management 24, 612–626
Schaper, M.: The challenge of environmental responsibility and sustainable development: Implications for SME and entrepreneurship academics. In: Füglistaller, U., Pleitner, H.J., Volery, T., Weber, W. (eds.) Radical changes in the world: Will SMEs soar or crash?, pp. 525–534. Recontres de St Gallen, St Gallen (2002)
Collins, E., Lawrence, S., Pavlovich, K., Ryan, C.: Business networks and the uptake of sustainability practices: the case of New Zealand. Journal of Cleaner Production 15, 729–740 (2007)
Dacin, M.T., Oliver, C., Roy, J.P.: The legitimacy of strategic alliances: An institutional perspective. Strategic Management Journal 28, 169–187 (2007)
Lin, H., Darnall, N.: Strategic Alliances for Environmental Protection. In: Sarkis, J., Cordeiro, J.J., Brust, D.V. (eds.) Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration, pp. 233–246. Springer, London (2010)
Horbach, J.: Determinants of environmental innovation: New evidence from German panel data sources. Research Policy 37, 163–173 (2008)
Yarahmadi, M., Clements, M., Higgins, P.G.: Greening supply chains: compliance and monitoring-oriented practices vs. cooperative-oriented practices. In: Issa, T., Isaías, P., Issa, T. (eds.) Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on Sustainability, Technology and Education (STE 2012), November 28-30, pp. 53–60. IADIS Press (2012)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2014 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing
About this paper
Cite this paper
Higgins, P.G., Yarahmadi, M. (2014). Cooperation as a Driver of Development and Diffusion of Environmental Innovation. In: Grabot, B., Vallespir, B., Gomes, S., Bouras, A., Kiritsis, D. (eds) Advances in Production Management Systems. Innovative and Knowledge-Based Production Management in a Global-Local World. APMS 2014. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 439. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44736-9_46
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44736-9_46
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-662-44735-2
Online ISBN: 978-3-662-44736-9
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)