Exploring the impact of energy efficiency technologies on manufacturing firm performance

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The first objective of this paper is to map the adoption of technologies for the reduction of energy and resource consumption in production and the second is to test the relationship between the implementation of those technologies and the performance of manufacturing firms. The aim is to contribute to the identification of the characteristics of the manufacturing firms that use this kind of innovative technology in order to help policy makers promote energy and resource efficiency in a suitable manner. Our research is based on the Spanish and Slovenian subsamples of a wider European Manufacturing Survey. Our suggested models explain how significant energy efficiency is, and how much of the variability in economic performance and environmental performance it can explain. The results show that the use of energy and material saving technologies does not have a clear and significant relationship with economic performance. On the other hand a significant positive relationship is found between energy and material saving technologies and environmental performance. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Pons, M., Bikfalvi, A., Llach, J., & Palcic, I. (2013). Exploring the impact of energy efficiency technologies on manufacturing firm performance. Journal of Cleaner Production, 52, 134–144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.03.011

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