Media type: E-Article Title: The Influence of Technology Differences on Corporate Environmental Patents: A Resource‐Based Versus an Institutional View of Green Innovations Contributor: Aragon‐Correa, Juan Alberto; Leyva‐de la Hiz, Dante I. imprint: Wiley, 2016 Published in: Business Strategy and the Environment Language: English DOI: 10.1002/bse.1885 ISSN: 0964-4733; 1099-0836 Origination: Footnote: Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This paper proposes that both the resource‐based view and institutional theory predict a positive relationship between the number of patented environmental innovations and non‐environmental innovations held by a firm, because they both are subject to the influence of similar factors. However, while the resource‐based view predicts that technological differences between the patented environmental innovations owned by a firm and those in the industry as a whole will positively affect the firm's environmental innovations, the institutional perspective predicts a negative relationship. Our results derive from a sample of 5537 environmental patents from 59 large companies in the electrical components and equipment industry worldwide, and show a positive relationship between patented environmental and non‐environmental innovations in a firm, but a negative influence on the number of the firm's patented environmental innovations resulting from differences between the firm's environmental technologies and those generally prevalent in the industry. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment</jats:p>