Green business opportunities
Paper i proceeding, 2011

The paper outlines a framework combining and connecting various answers to the question ‘what are the ways that a firm can leverage superior environmental performance to increase revenues or reduce costs?’ It does so by utilizing the idea that valuable problem-solution pairs correspond to opportunities and by describing why many environmental problems are ‘valuable’ problems. By connecting the various social causes of environmental problems with relevant literature on economic institutions, five general categories of ways that firms can appropriate environmental value are compiled and described. These five categories together constitute a framework that provides one possible answer to the initial question. They are labeled eco-efficiency, eco-branding, eco-lobbyism, eco-transaction design and eco-learning.

environmental innovation

environmental opportunities

problem solving

institutions

problem formulation

appropriation

Författare

Marcus Linder

Chalmers, Teknikens ekonomi och organisation, Innovation and R&D Management

Proceedings of R&D Management conference in Norrköping 2011

Drivkrafter

Hållbar utveckling

Innovation och entreprenörskap

Ämneskategorier

Företagsekonomi

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2017-10-08