Learning to change: the role of organisational capabilities in industry response to environmental regulation.

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This thesis looks at the potential for environmental regulation to induce economically beneficial technical change in industrial activity. This question is explored in the context of the recent introduction of Irish legislation aimed at promoting such technical change. The research focuses on the experience of one industrial sector, the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector, in making the adjustment to the new Integrated Pollution Control regulations. The key question of interest is the importance of organisational capabilities in determining firms’ ability to adjust to a changed regulatory environment, to develop new organisational processes and to implement technical change.
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\nThe thesis presents an analysis of competing theoretical approaches to analysis of regulation and technical change. The evolutionary theory of the firm, with its emphasis on organisational capabilities as the driver of technical change in firms, is identified as the most appropriate framework for the d

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