Make it strategic! Financial investment logic is not enough

By Catherine Cooremans. 2011

140 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. T. Fleiter
2. Catherine Cooremans
3. Ernst Worrell
4. Simon Hirzel
5. J. Schleich
6. David Popp

In Finance

1. T. Fleiter
2. Simon Hirzel
3. Ernst Worrell
4. Ployplearn Ravivanpong
5. J. Schleich
6. Catherine Cooremans

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. T. Fleiter
2. Ployplearn Ravivanpong
3. Simon Hirzel
4. Ernst Worrell
5. Catherine Cooremans
6. J. Schleich
7. Patrik Thollander
8. S. Sorrell

Citations in the corpus

• Adoption of energy-efficiency measures in SMEs—An empirical analysis based on energy audit data from Germany (2012, background): “Cooremans(2011; 2012) conducted interviews with managers in electricity-intensive firms in Switzerlandand found that financial factors are less important for a firm‟s adoption decision than strategic factors.”
• The characteristics of energy-efficiency measures – a neglected dimension (2012, background): “Cooremans (2011) underlines the importance of the strategic character of investments for the adoption decision and sees an investment as strategic if it “contributes to create, maintain or develop a sustainable competitive advantage”.”
• Investment in energy efficiency: do the characteristics of investments matter? (2012, background): “7 A more detailed review of this literature is made in Cooremans (2011), in the sections “Capital Investment decision-making literature” and “Alternative energy literature: empirical findings.””