Empirical Evidence on Environmental Performance and Operating Costs*
Zusammenfassung
ABSTRACT
We investigate how environmental performance affects operating costs using a sample of 785 U.S. firms for the period 2006 - 2014. Environmental performance is measured as the overall environmental score provided by Asset4. We find that better environmental performance is negatively associated with direct production costs, but increases overhead costs. Because direct production costs have a larger impact than overhead costs, aggregate operating costs decline as environmental performance improves. To deal with endogeneity and to interpret the results causal, we use an instrumental variables approach.
Schlüsselwörter
Environmental performance; Natural Resource Based View; Operating Cost
Zitieren als
Koegst, J., & Guenster, N. (2017). Empirical Evidence on Environmental Performance and Operating Costs*. In Proceedings of the 2017 Corporate Responsibility Research Conference, Sevillia, Spanien. (accepted / in press (not yet published))Details
Publikationstyp
Forschungsartikel in Sammelband (Konferenz)
Begutachtet
Ja
Publikationsstatus
accepted / in press (not yet published)
Jahr
2017
Konferenz
2017 Corporate Responsibility Research Conference
Konferenzort
Sevillia, Spanien
Sprache
Englisch