The Porter Hypothesis at 20: Can Environmental Regulation Enhance Innovation and Competitiveness?
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Abstract
Some twenty years ago, Harvard Business School economist and strategy professor Michael Porter challenged conventional wisdom about the impact of environmental regulation on business by declaring that well-designed regulation could actually enhance competitiveness. The traditional view of environmental regulation held by virtually all economists until that time was that requiring firms to reduce an externality like pollution necessarily restricted their options and thus by definition reduced their profits. After all, if profitable opportunities existed to reduce pollution, profit-maximizing firms would already be taking advantage of them. Over the past twenty years, much has been written about what has since become known simply as the Porter Hypothesis. Yet even today, we continue to find conflicting evidence concerning the Porter Hypothesis, alternative theories that might explain it, and oftentimes a misunderstanding of what the Porter Hypothesis does and does not say. This article examines the key theoretical foundations and empirical evidence concerning the Porter Hypothesis, discusses its implications for the design of environmental regulations, and outlines directions for future research on the relationship between environmental regulation, innovation, and competitiveness.
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- Venue
- Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
- Topic
- Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Field
- Business, Management and Accounting
- Canadian institutions
- HEC MontréalUniversity of Ottawa
- Funders
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- Keywords
- Porter hypothesisEconomicsExternalityEnvironmental regulationProfit (economics)Empirical evidenceCompetitive advantageIndustrial organizationPublic economicsNeoclassical economicsMicroeconomicsManagement
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