ABSTRACT

Whereas the previous research on environmental management practices explores their relationship with innovation performance, this paper investigates whether those practices can help firms to overcome obstacles to innovation. More precisely, the purpose of this article is to empirically investigate the relationship between environmental management practices and three types of innovation obstacles: cost, knowledge and market obstacles. By using three databases on a sample of French manufacturing firms, our findings demonstrate that the adoption of environmental management practices significantly reduces cost and knowledge obstacles to innovation but has no significant effect on market obstacles. Therefore, this study advances research on innovation performance improvement by unveiling that the adoption of environmental management practices can serve as a mechanism for breaking through innovation obstacles.

摘要

鉴于先前关于环境管理实践的研究探讨了它们与创新绩效的关系，本文调查了这些实践是否可以帮助企业克服创新障碍。更准确地说，本文的目的是实证研究环境管理实践与三种创新障碍之间的关系：成本、知识和市场障碍。通过对法国制造公司样本使用三个数据库，我们的研究结果表明，采用环境管理实践显着降低了创新的成本和知识障碍，但对市场障碍没有显着影响。所以，