What drives eco-innovation?Hojnik, Jana (Avtor) Ruzzier, Mitja (Avtor) eco-innovationenvironmental innovationinnovation driversR&DadoptiondiffusiontThis paper provides an overview of the emerging literature on the drivers of eco-innovation.Its main contribution lies in separating the drivers associated with the phases of develop-ment and diffusion and in identifying particular drivers based on different eco-innovationtypes. We find that research in this area primarily adopts the resource-based and institu-tional theories as its theoretical foundations and that the prevailing effects identified arethose of regulations and market pull factors. Moreover, product eco-innovation, processeco-innovation, organizational eco-innovation, and environmental R&D investments seemto be driven by common drivers, such as regulations, market pull factors, EMS, and cost sav-ings, as well as to be positively associated with company size. The majority of the studiesin our literature review employ a quantitative research methodology and focus on the dif-fusion stage of eco-innovation. We end with providing a synthesis of drivers of companies%eco-innovation and directions for future research.20162016-08-03 04:07:04Delo ni kategorizirano8313ISSN: 2210-4224UDK: 001.895OceCobissID: 519673369DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2015.09.006COBISS.SI-ID: 1538015172sl