Environmental tax reform and greenwashing: evidence from Chinese listed companies

S Hu, A Wang, K Du - Energy Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
With more regulated environmental taxes, will enterprises adopt or evade green production
activities passively? To uncover this question, we apply the difference-in-differences model …

Can the penalty mechanism of mandatory environmental regulations promote green innovation? Evidence from China's enterprise data

A Wang, L Si, S Hu - Energy Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
There is no consensus regarding the impact of mandatory environmental regulations on
corporate green innovation. This study explains the divergent conclusions by differentiating …

An institution-based view of global IPR history

MW Peng, D Ahlstrom, SM Carraher, W Shi - Journal of international …, 2017 - Springer
Leveraging the use of history to advance international business research, this article focuses
on the crucial debate over intellectual property rights (IPR) between the United States and …

The different roles of innovation intermediaries to generate value

S Noviaristanti, N Acur, K Mendibil - Management Review Quarterly, 2023 - Springer
The development of innovation management practices toward openness, societal grand
challenges and emerging technologies have changed the roles and supporting activities of …

Voluntary environmental regulations, greenwashing and green innovation: Empirical study of China's ISO14001 certification

S Hu, M Wang, M Wu, A Wang - Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 2023 - Elsevier
Voluntary environmental regulations play a crucial role in promoting green innovation.
However, the existing literature on the subject has yielded inconsistent conclusions. To …

From formation to performance outcomes: A review and agenda for licensing research

A Meschnig, A Dubiel - Journal of Business Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Licensing strategies have gained much attention among practitioners. However, academic
research on the topic is, compared to similar domains such as franchising, more limited and …

The inverted U relationship between green innovative activities and firms' market-based performance: The impact of firm age

DI Leyva-De la Hiz, MT Bolívar-Ramos - Technovation, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite the growing interest in environmental innovations, there is still no consensus about
their effect on firm performance. On the one hand, advocators of environmental innovations …

Patent assertion entities and follow-on innovation. Evidence from patent acquisitions at the USPTO

G Orsatti, V Sterzi - Industry and Innovation, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Patent monetisation is an important source of revenues worldwide. This activity is
increasingly carried out by patent assertion entities (PAE), which are at the origin of about …

Non-practicing entities and transparency of patent ownership in Europe: the case of UK dormant companies

V Sterzi, JP Rameshkoumar, J Van Der Pol - … Forecasting and Social …, 2021 - Elsevier
While various studies in the fields of law and economics have analysed the business models
of patent aggregators and large non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the US, small NPEs …

Innovating for good in opportunistic contexts: The case for firms' environmental divergence

DI Leyva-de la Hiz, JA Aragon-Correa… - Journal of Business …, 2022 - Springer
Opportunistic behaviors are considered ethically and strategically troublesome since they
disrupt otherwise mutually beneficial relationships. Previous literature has shown that firms …