ABSTRACT
A firm’s environmental performance and productivity result from decisions regarding input use and technological and management abatement strategy adoption. Using a sample of chemical using/manufacturing/emitting facilities, how these choices are made and their impacts on output and abatement are examined. Not only are technological and management strategy adoption driven by different motives, adoption of a management system discourages technological strategy adoption in the succeeding period. Further, dirty input use falls with technological strategy adoption but increases with management strategy adoption. These relationships require a more judicious approach to balancing the promotion of technological and management strategies vis-a-vis dirty input choices.
- Environmental technology adoption
- Management-based approaches
- Pollution-output relationship
- Pollution prevention
- mixed multi-process models
- SUR
- Received December 9, 2022.
- Accepted January 10, 2023.