ABSTRACT
In order to give a clearer view of the adoption rationales for environmentally benign technologies in Nigerian manufacturing, it is necessary to isolate the adoption causalities for technology responses for water pollution abatement (TPA) and technology responses for water pollution prevention (TPP). The binary environmental policy variable, EPL is indicated by proxy as the impact of the national environmental policy law on firms' commitment to environmental management after the enforcement in January 1995. Environmental policy nonetheless remains an important reason for the adoption of both TPA and TPP, but is seemingly more important for the promotion of TPA adoption. For TPA, it was discovered that factors such as firm's internal capability for innovation as indicated by the level of human capital, firm size, and the existing level of investment in machines/equipment are equally or more important than environmental policy as drivers of technology responses for industrial wastewater pollution control.
