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A SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE ON ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION BASED ON MAIN PATH ANALYSIS
Author(s) -
Barbieri Nicolò,
Ghisetti Claudia,
Gilli Marianna,
Marin Giovanni,
Nicolli Francesco
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of economic surveys
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.657
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1467-6419
pISSN - 0950-0804
DOI - 10.1111/joes.12149
Subject(s) - citation , path analysis (statistics) , order (exchange) , path (computing) , citation analysis , regional science , economics , management science , sociology , econometrics , positive economics , public economics , operations research , social science , computer science , mathematics , library science , statistics , programming language , finance
This paper reviews the literature on environmental innovation (EI) and systematizes it by means of an original methodology identifying the main directions in which the literature on EI has developed over time. In order to do so, two algorithms are adopted and used to analyse a citation network of journal articles and books. The main path analysis reveals that this literature revolves around the following topics: i) determinants of EI; ii) economic effects of EI; iii) environmental effects of EI and iv) policy inducement of EI. Each of these topics is discussed and implications from the main findings as well as possible future research extensions are outlined.