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Green Technology Innovation and Its Implications in the Sustainable Organizational Environment
Abstract
This study has the purpose to analyze the different relations between the green innovation and the green technology leading to the green technology innovation processes. It is assumed that both elements green innovation and green technology are closely interrelated in the development of green technology innovation in organizations. The method employed is the meta-analysis supported by the reflective and descriptive methods used in the conceptual, theoretical and empirical literature reviews on the topics. Finally, some conclusions are presented to confirm the strong relationships between the green innovation and the green technology to create and develop the green technology innovation in organizations.
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The link between corporate digitization and green innovation is now receiving attention from all spheres of life in light of the rapidly developing digital economy and the goal of sustainable development. This study explores how corporate digitalization affects green innovation, its mediating mechanism, and moderating effects by integrating resource-based theory, attention-based view, and institutional theory. We utilize the panel data of Chinese Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share manufacturing corporation data from 2011 to 2020 as samples and use the fixed effect model in linear regression of panel data for regression analysis. Research findings: 1) corporate digitalization fosters not only green innovation directly but also promotes green innovation by enhancing human capital. 2) Executive team environmental attention encourages the beneficial correlation between human capital and green innovation. 3) Media attention promotes the favorable relationship between corporate digitalization and green innovation. 4) Heterogeneity analysis revealed that the corporate digitalization effect on green innovation is more significant when firms are more prominent in high-tech industries. The findings encourage corporations to strengthen their digital strategy, infrastructure, and applications. In addition, they can also inspire green innovation to enable companies to develop sustainably.
Innovation in the manufacturing sector has been extensively investigated and has demonstrated a long-standing association with organizational performance, particularly in today sophisticated and technologically driven world. Green innovation has recently attracted attention in the innovation scene, particularly in the apparel industry across efforts. Moreover, green innovation initiatives adopted in the apparel sector have also been researched well, however, their impact on organizational performance is seen as a research gap in the current study. As a result, the study's objectives are to identify the factors that affect organizational performance in green innovation and to assess the impact of green innovation on organizational performance. With the identification of green innovation being a driver of organizational performance, the research conducted through this study has displayed that organizational performance can be explained through a multitude of factors such as financial performance, competitive advantage, environmental performance, operational performance, talent development and organizational culture. Hence it is recommended to be analyzed thoroughly and implement from a governmental level itself to ensure that the relevant support towards sustainability and green innovation is attained. As such, more manufacturing efforts in terms of supplier basis need to be formed which would be sufficient for manufacturers to enable production. This will allow enterprises in achieving economic growth while coexisting in a harmonized manner with the environment.
Businesses must do more than safeguard their financial interests to survive in today’s market. Sustainability, or long-term viability, requires consideration of society, the environment, and the global community. However, community-based businesses cannot use some of the current components of the sustainable business framework because they were created for large corporations. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches are used in this study. First, quantitative methods were used to develop a conceptual model for the organization’s current needs using the PPT, the TOE, and an Expectation Confirmation Theory (ECT). A simple random sampling method was used to gather the data, with a sample size of 14 villages. Using a five-point Likert scale, the researcher gathered data from 2,584 households and collected 627 valid responses. After that, descriptive statistics were used to describe the data (frequency distributions, percentages, averages, medians, and standard deviations), and PLS-SEM was used to investigate the interactions between variables and launch the conceptual model using partial least squares (PLS) path modeling. First and foremost, qualitative through Interactive Qualitative Analysis (IQA). There are two ways to create a congested SID and an uncluttered SID: the Affinity Relationship Table (ART), the mapping of the Inter-Relationship Diagram (IRD), and the system influence diagram. According to the study, sustainable community water supply businesses are the primary driver. The conceptual framework presented in this paper is consistent with the results of the combination of quantitative and qualitative methods and the current constraints placed on community water supply businesses to thrive.
The undertaken research examines the impact of green attitude, green customer value (e.g., environmental image and perceived value), and green marketing mix (e.g., product, packaging, price, promotion, and place) on green purchasing intention. The research has integrated fundamental theoretical approaches of customers’ purchasing such as attitude-behavior context (ABC) theory, signaling theory, and theory of planned behavior (TPB) in the modified conceptual framework. Additionally, this research has also incorporated the green psychological benefits (e.g., nature experience, self-expressive, and warm glow) as mediating construct. The modified conceptual framework also unified green marketing (e.g., environmental advertising and green word of mouth) as moderator to investigate further the connotation between attitude, green customer value, green marketing mix, and green purchase intention. The survey method is used to collect data with a sample size of 896 customers that are well-versed with eco-friendly green products and services from the different urban centers of the USA. The data is analyzed through a structural equation modeling (SEM)–based multivariate approach by using SPSS 26, AMOS 26, and conditional process modeling software. The findings have demonstrated a positive and significant impact of green customer value, green marketing mix, and attitude on the green purchase intention of US customers. The study has further concluded that the green psychological benefits (mediator) and green advertising (moderator) have a significant influence on a relationship between attitude, green customer value (environmental image and perceived value), green marketing mix, and green purchasing intention. The results of this research can be helpful for researchers and academicians to get insight into theoretical approaches to green purchasing, and it can also be helpful for marketers to devise green marketing strategies to gain optimal competitive advantage in the long run.
Under the green sustainable development strategy, media attention has played a vital role in promoting green innovation of enterprises. Nevertheless, existing research mainly analyzes how media attention affects enterprise innovation behavior, while ignoring the role of environmental regulation and green financial policy. The main purpose of this study is to explore whether the media’s attention to environmental issues can promote the enterprise’s green innovation, whether the constraint policies of environmental regulatory and incentive policy of green financial can play regulatory roles, and whether these effects are heterogeneous among different types of enterprises. Based on the data of Chinese A-shared listed enterprises from 2010 to 2019, this paper draws the following conclusions by constructing the fixed effect models: First, media attention promotes the substantive and strategic green innovation of enterprises. Second, environmental regulation and green finance have positive regulatory effects on media attention and enterprise green innovation, and these regulation effects have a more significant impact on promoting substantive green innovation. Third, media attention is more sensitive in heavy pollution and state-owned enterprises green innovation. The results of the robustness test still support the conclusion, indicating that the conclusions are reliable. The research of this paper helps to clarify the role of environmental regulation and green finance in media attention and green innovation on a deeper level and puts forward targeted suggestions on how to stimulate enterprise green innovation from the perspective of media, government, and enterprises.
The current literature in the environmental management domain proposes that employee behaviour is essential to enhancing environmental outcomes, but few studies have examined how human resource management (HRM) is linked with the green innovation of organisations. The study aims to investigate the interrelationship between green human resource management and green innovation in the hotel industry through the mediation of green human capital and environmental knowledge and moderation of managerial environmental concerns (MEC). The study was conducted on 209 participants from several occupational levels, including frontline workers, entry-level management, middle management, and top management employees of various hotel chains in Pakistan. Data were collected through stratified random sampling and analysed using the partial least structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) technique. Resultantly, GHRM positively contributed to the green innovation of organisations. The mediating roles of green human capital and environmental knowledge were also statistically significant. Furthermore, the results reveal that the link between GHRM and green human capital is stronger with MEC as a moderator. The study contributes to the body of knowledge by investigating environmental protection based on the human capital theory through empirical evidence on hypothesised relationships. Moreover, the study extends the GHRM scope by adding predictors such as environmental knowledge for efficient hotel industry performance.
This study relies on a unique synthesis of ambidexterity theory and the natural resource orchestration approach to investigate how green intellectual capital elements, namely green human, structural, and relational capital, along with ambidextrous green innovation, trigger a synergy in favor of environmental performance. In particular, this paper primarily aims to test the mediating role of ambidextrous green innovation in the relationship between green intellectual capital and environmental performance. Based on a survey of 105 Iranian public listed companies, the results indicate that green intellectual capital elements are not directly associated with environmental performance. Instead, they influence environmental performance only through the channel of ambidextrous green innovation as a mediating variable. This is the first study to simultaneously embed the resource orchestration theory in the green intellectual capital and ambidexterity literature. The findings of the current study offer new insights into the issue of how organizations gain maximum benefit from the orchestration of their various green assets and capabilities, including green intellectual capital and ambidextrous green innovation.
Recently, the rapid development of digital finance in China has exerted a subtle influence on many aspects of social and economic development. However, the research on the impact of digital finance on corporate green innovation is rather lacking. In order to fill this gap, this paper uses the “Peking University Digital Finance Index” to evaluate the micro impact of financial innovation development on environmental governance from the firm level. The results show that digital finance can significantly improve the quantity and quality of corporate green innovation, and this effect still exists after considering endogeneity and a series of robustness tests. The promotion effect of digital finance on the quantity and quality of corporate green innovation is more obvious in state-owned, eastern, and mature enterprises. In addition, we find the mechanism behind the positive relationship between digital finance and corporate green innovation: digital finance makes firms more transparent and funds flow more convenient. Overall, this paper provides a micro explanation of environmental governance for the accelerated popularization of digital finance in emerging markets, which is urgently needed for most emerging economies seeking high-quality development.
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to investigate how digital technologies are used for facilitating knowledge sharing and decision-making through enhanced coordination and communication and their impact on job performance in organizations.
Design/methodology/approach
A conceptual model is developed within the background of the social capital theory through a comprehensive review of the related literature for exploring how digital technologies can improve knowledge sharing and decision-making via enhanced communication and coordination between individuals in organizations for better job performance. This model is then tested and validated based on structural equation modeling of the collected survey data in Australia.
Findings
This study shows that digital technology enhanced coordination and communication have significant impact on knowledge sharing. It finds out that digital technology driven coordination significantly influences decision-making and digital technology driven knowledge sharing significantly influences decision-making. Furthermore, this study reveals that enhanced decision-making and knowledge sharing can lead to better job performance in organizations.
Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first attempt to explore the role of digital technologies in enhancing knowledge sharing and decision-making for better job performance in a digitalized working environment in organizations. The validated model can be used as the foundation to further investigate the changing role of digital technologies in driving knowledge sharing for better performance of individuals and competitive advantages of organizations.
The purpose of this research is to evaluate the impact of proactive environmental strategy,
competitive differentiation advantage & cost-leadership competitive advantage for the
competitive, sustainable development of an organization in terms of its performances, for
instance, product strategy, production, process & financial performances. We incorporated
technological eco-innovation as a mediating factor & corporate image as a moderator between exogenous & endogenous variables. We have collected 798 responses from China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam. For the data analyses, we employed a structural equation modeling-based multivariate approach and conditional process modeling. The novelty and significance of the undertaken study rested in multifaceted outcomes; for instance, the proactive environmental strategy, the competitive advantage of differentiation & competitive advantage of cost leadership have a significant & positive impact on the sustainable development of an organization in terms of its performances, for example, product strategic, production & financial performances. The findings further demonstrate that technological eco-innovation as a mediating factor & corporate image as a moderating factor played vital and significant influencers between exogenous and endogenous variables. Finally, the TodaYamamoto causality showed the two-ways directionality between exogenous & endogenous variables. The outcomes have provided critical practical and societal implications for the industry and society. The companies may incorporate the environment as a cornerstone in short & longterm strategies for sustainable development. On the other hand, organizations may provide an eco-friendly environment to society.
This study examined the impact of corporate digitalization on green innovation using data concerning A-share companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets from 2012 to 2018. We measured the degree of corporate digitalization through a text analysis of annual reports and empirically tested its impact on green innovation using a panel data fixed effects model. We found that digital transformation can improve green innovation levels, especially when internal control is weak and institutional ownership is low. These findings support the theoretical expectation that digitalization can strengthen supervision. The relationship between digitization and corporate governance mechanisms was proved to be complementary. Additionally, the analysis of economic consequences showed that digitalization improves financial performance by promoting green innovation. The results clarify the determinants of corporate green innovation and provide relevant insights for increasing the value of corporate digital transformation.
Electric vehicles (EVs) have the potential to lead the transition in road transportation from traditional petroleum mobility to electric mobility. Despite many environmental benefits, the market penetration rate of EVs is still low in most developing countries. Recently, Pakistan formulated its first EV policy for 2020–2025 to accelerate EV adoption. This study aims to explore the factors, including environmental concerns, perceived ease of use, effort expectancy, social influence, and perceived facilitating conditions, affecting individuals’ behavioral intentions to purchase EVs in Pakistan. The hypotheses were developed based on the literature, and an online questionnaire survey was conducted in Lahore, Pakistan, to collect the relevant data. The partial least square path modeling approach of structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesis. The results confirmed that the environmental concerns, perceived ease of use, and effort expectancy positively affect the public’s intentions to use EVs in the future. However, social influence and facilitating conditions did not significantly contribute to EV adoption in the present study. The findings suggest that the EV manufacturers aiming to accelerate EV adoption should develop marketing strategies to disseminate information regarding the environmental benefits of EVs and enhance clarity about EVs’ performance and usage.
We describe the interplay between the resource-based view (RBV) and strategic human resources (HR)/human capital (HC) literatures in select areas of particular interest. In each area, we aim to highlight key issues, review relevant evidence where available, and identify future research needs. We begin by reviewing research on HR-related firm heterogeneity. We then discuss best practices in HR, including evidence of the large apparent value they create. We also consider different views on the value and ease of imitation of best practices, including implementation challenges. Next, we briefly address the key roles of microfoundations and complementarity in helping understand the potential for value creation and value capture through the use of best practices. We then ask whether the use of best practices in the pursuit of competitive parity might warrant greater attention as this may be where the largest potential gains can be made. Finally, we consider a number of developments in the strategic HC literature, especially those related to firm-specific human capital (FSHC). We raise questions with views on issues such as the consequences of FSHC for workers; the definition and measurement of FSHC; whether worker immobility, a key to value capture, is good from a social return (or even a firm) return perspective; and the relative emphasis on value capture and value creation.
Chinese manufacturing has recently undertaken the responsibility of energy conservation and emission reduction to address climate change. This research analyzes green innovation on business sustainability in the energy-intensive industry in China from the manager perspective, researched data from 229 Chinese managers via structural equation modeling (SEM). The results demonstrated that green innovation had three dimensions: green product innovation, recycling, and green publicity. Business sustainability also had three dimensions: financial performance, environmental performance, and social performance. It also shows that green innovation had a significant effect on business sustainability in the energy-intensive industry. More specifically, we found that recycling has more impact on social performance when compared with green publicity. However, green publicity has a large effect on environmental performance; moreover, green product innovation has more impact on financial performance than green publicity. We also found that environmental performance has a positive effect on financial and social performance results. The alternative models were used to examine the second-order factors of green innovation and business sustainability to test the study’s robustness and supported our findings. Thus, this study contributes to the field by helping managers to make decisions when dealing with sustainable environmental management. It provides new empirical evidence to support the development of a low-carbon circular economy and realization of a carbon-neutral goal by 2060 in China.
The study provides a new insight to extend traditional technology acceptance model (TAM) in to energy–augmented TAM (EA-TAM) model in order to analyze the micro and macro perspectives of green enterprise technology to ensure eco-friendly products. The critical review would enhance analytical abilities to understand the main determinants of the TAM model at both firms' and industry perspective. The study proposed micro and macro enterprise energy–augmented TAM models and found that microenterprise EA-TAM associated with green investment decision that increases the use of renewable energy demand to improve logistics performance, export capabilities, technology advancement, resource inputs, and competitiveness. These factors would largely support to green product innovation, which is fueled by green R&D expenditures. The green supply chain process would develop an attitude and behavioral intention toward the use of technology and green products, which ultimately would bond with green system use. The macro perspective of EA-TAM shows that green factors including green supplier selection, industrial green engineering, green procurement, green consumerism, green product recovery, and green innovation would increase green purchase decisions that convert into perceived ease of green products usage. The eco-product choice faced three compelling issues that could negatively affect the use of green products attitude and intentions, i.e., political constraints, carbon pricing, and consumer willingness-to-pay for public goods. The study concludes that the need for green policies is imperative to regulate firms and the industrial decision to go-for eco-friendly production. The use of renewable energy, carbon pricing and willingness-to-pay for public goods would be recommended for long-term sustainable development.
Despite the burgeoning interests in the environmental strategy, there is a limited understanding of how human resource slack drives sustainable innovation and environmental performance. This paper contributes to filling this gap by examining the effect of human resource slack on sustainable innovation, and its impact on environmental performance. Besides, investigate the contingent effects of intangible resource advantage on this relationship. The hypotheses are tested using data from 301 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana. The results suggest that human resource slack positively relates to sustainable innovation and this relationship is moderated by intangible resource advantage. Also, we find that sustainable innovation mediates the relationship between human resource slack and environmental performance. The insights from our paper provide a nuanced understanding of the relationships among human resource lack, sustainable innovation, and environmental performance. Implications for theory and practices are discussed.
Embracing green innovation is one of the most common elements for improving the firm's environmental performance. In a business environment with a high level of bureaucratic corruption, companies can easily neglect their environmental accountability. Therefore, strong motivations are needed to prompt or force companies to acknowledge their environmental responsibility. To discover which types of companies embrace green practices, this study explored the association between customer relationship orientation—as a part of the firms’ culture—and the adoption of green product and process innovation via a mediator, market-focused learning. Results from two surveys of 224 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Iran post-sanction (late-2016 and early 2017) showed that the adoption of green product and process innovation is higher among SMEs with customer-oriented corporate culture. In addition, this research verified that market-focused learning was an underlying mechanism through which customer-oriented corporate culture was related to the adoption of green product and process innovation. Accordingly, this study identified the extent to which companies’ building a “constant relationship with customers” was a suitable way to identify those companies’ going green and showing more environmental accountability in a bureaucratic corrupted environment.
We examine the effect of human capital on energy consumption for a panel of OECD economies over the period 1965-2014. Our preferred results, which account for cross-sectional dependence and structural breaks, suggest that a one standard deviation increase in human capital reduces aggregate energy consumption by 15.36%. When we distinguish between clean and dirty energy consumption, we find that human capital generates significant positive externalities for the environment. Specifically, we find that a one standard deviation increase in human capital is associated with a 17.33% decrease in dirty energy consumption and an 85.54% increase in clean energy consumption. Our findings reinforce the social benefits of investing in human capital and suggest a promising avenue for energy conservation without impeding economic growth.
Integrating environmental goals in a company‟s mission and strategies not only improves
the company‟s image as a socially responsible organization but also help in gaining a
leading position of first mover advantage. In today‟s era, due to the increasing pressures
towards sustainability and pro-environment policies, organizations as well as
governments are making efforts in this direction. The purpose of this study is to find out
the role of organizations in following green practices such as green organizational
identity and green innovation performance. The current study investigates the association
between green organizational identity, environmental commitment, and green innovation
performance. Moreover, we also investigate how environmental commitment mediates
the relationship between green organizational identity and green innovation performance.
Data from manufacturing organizations is taken, these are the companies registered with
WWF Green office project. Following a quantitative approach, the hypotheses developed
in the light of literature are tested using structural equation modeling (SEM). Result
indicates that a complementary partial mediation exists between green organizational
identity, environmental commitment, and green innovation performance. Moreover, this
study also aims to help in comprehending to what extent organizations are focusing on
the environment and how much they value both the environment and making their
operations green.
This research takes manufacturing enterprises with big data capability as the research object, based on organizational decision-making theory and planned behavior theory, the mediation effect model of “capability-intention-behavior” is constructed. It uses econometric models to explore the impact and conduction process of big data capability on green process innovation. The results show that big data capability have an obvious direct effect on green process innovation. By examining the mediation effect test, we find that green innovation intention partially mediates the relationship between big data capability and green process innovation. Then a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fs QCA) is used in this paper to analyze the causal complexity between big data capability and green process innovation, and to identify six effective configuration paths. According to the results, the synergy of big data acquisition capability, big data analysis capability and big data insight capability is crucial for high green process innovation, where big data insight capability plays a central role and big data acquisition capability or analysis capability and green innovation intention play a marginal role. According to the heterogeneity test, it is found that big data capability has stronger roles in the eastern region in China; green innovation intention has a stronger impact in the central and western regions in China. As enterprise-scale increases, the impact of big data capability on green process innovation increases and then declines, while the impact of green innovation intention on green process innovation continues to decline.
Stakeholder mapping and analysis is essential in climate change adaptation (CCA) projects to assess and identify the importance and needs of the relevant stakeholders (SHs). The complexity and importance of the implementation of CCA actions depends on the cooperation of diverse groups of stakeholders in line with the policy implementation characteristics which apply in Greece. To map the actors involved in adaptation planning and implementation in Greece, a multicriteria analysis was performed. The SHs involved in CCA in Greece were divided into national- and regional-level stakeholders. The stakeholder analysis was based on the mapping of SHs identified through the organizational charts of relevant institutions and by other projects with a direct or indirect link to CCA. The relative importance of each stakeholder for the purposes of this analysis was assessed by evaluating their power, proximity and urgency with respect to CCA and by assigning specific weighting factors for each criterion to calculate a single priority index. Based on the priority index value, SHs were classified as low, medium or high priority for CCA at both national and regional levels. At the national level, ministerial directorates were classified as high priority, followed by academic and research centers, which were classified as medium priority. At the regional level, high index values were calculated for the Special Directorate of Environment and Spatial Planning. The General Directorate of Civil Protection and the Directorate of European Programs were classified as medium and low priority, respectively.
Purpose
While implementing green innovation-driven strategies when facing growing grim environmental problems and the realistic demands of achieving high-quality development is increasingly urgent, changing abruptly is inevitably detrimental to the smooth functioning of social and economic development. Restrained by resources, innovation-driven strategy is a huge strategy for an organization to shift from traditional technological innovation to green innovation. Supports and implementation in green technology investment would necessarily crowd out other business investment and lead to reduction of innovation outputs and mount of financial uncertainty. Under the guidance of harmonious balance, the equilibrium allocation between green research and non-green counterpart is badly needed to be addressed for decision-makers inside and outside the organizations. The differentiated inputs of them would lead to different effects on organizational performance in practice.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors first conducted a Hausman test on green research intensity (GRI) and innovation performance, economic performance, social performance, and environmental performance, respectively. Adopting the fixed effects model for estimation seems accurate, if there is no significant heteroscedasticity shown in the BP test. The authors then adopted the least square dummy variable method to handle individual heterogeneity (Xia et al. , 2020). After controlling the industry effect and time effect simultaneously, the results were consistent with that of fixed effects model, thereby eliminating the impact of heteroscedasticity.
Findings
The authors construct a multi-dimensional performance system—innovation performance, economic performance, social performance, and environmental performance—to probe into the influence of GRI from the resource-based view and allocation theory. Different performance does not benefit equally from increasing the intensity of green research. Performance increase may squeeze out the quantity of total innovation but can compensate quality for knowledge spillovers of green technology. The organization's growth and long-term value may be beneficial from the increase, but not the short-term financial performance. While the relationship between GRI and social performance has the characteristic of reverse U-curve, there has to be some scale of green research to gain considerable and nonlinear environmental performance. Low level of green research may increase pollution until green research has cross over the inflection point. These relationships are intensely moderated by the environmental regulation.
Research limitations/implications
Because of the focus of this study is on the organizational performance of green research, the analysis comes with some limitations that should be addressed in future research. Data were inter-professional, with large enterprises and small businesses innovating green technology at the same time. Though the hypotheses presented here were grounded in existing theoretical rationale, the generality of this study cannot be assumed. Multi-performance of green activities in small- and medium-sized businesses should be further explored. Additionally, concrete index of the corresponding evaluation system constructed here contribute more to practical activities of green innovation. Refinement of synergy performance index is the task for future work. Further, grounded in Chinese context, the authors' results could be compared with other scenario with institutional heterogeneity to provide detailed evidences for institutional theory. Future studies could also move forward to longitudinal case study to delicately investigate the performance differentiation of green research when in different development stage.
Originality/value
First, what and how the authors do is novel as the authors use listed Chinese manufacturing companies to probe into the complex relationship between GRI and multiple performance rather than discussing the performance of green innovation input from a single perspective merely. Second, the authors systematically define the performance as economic performance, environmental performance, social performance and innovation performance in depth, which consider adequately the tangible and intangible value as well as internal and external benefits of green research. And finally, in the context of environmental regulation, the study discusses the differentiation of the increase of green research intensity from the perspective of resource constraints, providing reference for optimizing the resource allocation in green and non-green research and solving the decoupling between earnest social appeal and sluggish or reluctant green behaviors.
The behavioral decision-making characteristics of top management team (TMT) are the most direct factors affecting enterprise decision-making and team management style. Using the panel data of A-share listed manufacturing companies scanning from 2010 to 2019, this paper empirically tests the relationships between the four irrational variables of TMT and green technology innovation (GTI). The results show that: ① On the whole, social responsibility, innovation spirit and risk-taking spirit are significantly positively correlated with GTI, environmental protection consciousness is significantly negatively correlated with GTI, and the compound effect of the four subjective variables also shows these relationships. ② Heterogeneity analysis shows that the effect of TMT irrational characteristics is different in different types of enterprises. In large-scale enterprises and state-owned enterprises, the regression results are basically consistent with the full sample; in small-scale enterprises and non-state-owned enterprises, risk-taking spirit is still a significant force affecting enterprise GTI, while other irrational variables are no longer significant. ③ Further research shows that the unabsorbed slack resources of enterprises and marketization level can adjust the relationships between the irrational characteristics of TMT and GTI. On the whole, the role of irrational variables is more obvious when reducing the unabsorbed slack resources; the higher the level of marketization, the more the spirit of adventure can stimulate innovation; increasing enterprise R&D investment can significantly promote the improvement of GTI. The research results provide important reference for the formulation and implementation of GTI strategy.
Green technology innovation is an effective way to overcome the constraints of combining resources and environment. This paper focuses on the impacts of media attention and corporate environmental information disclosure on green technology innovation of China’s 487 listed heavily polluting companies from 2007 to 2019. The corporate environmental information disclosure was measured using text analytics and data mining and considering the impacts of political connections. The results indicate that: (1) both positive and negative media attention and the quality of environmental information disclosure significantly contribute to corporate green technology innovation, with negative media attention having a more substantial impact than positive media attention; (2) The environmental information disclosure of China’s heavily polluting industries acts as a mediator in the impact of negative media attention on enterprise green technology innovation; (3) Political connection as a moderating factor has a major suppressive impact on the mediating model. This paper enriches the research relevant to the drivers of green technology innovation in enterprises. It also provides new ideas for exploring the research on the influence on green technology innovation behavior from the perspective of political connections.
As the environmental agenda gains momentum all over the world, enterprises face the challenge of combining economic and environmental goals. An obvious, recurrent, and yet not fully answered question is whether, and under which circumstances, an improvement in a firm's environmental performance leads to higher profits. Looking at innovation data, the present study, addresses the question whether Environmental Innovation (EI) is synergic with other types of innovation. To this aim, we separately consider the competitive gains from efficiency increases and cost savings due to different types of environmental innovations (EI) affecting the supply and the demand sides of a firm's activity. Using the Italian CIS dataset (2006–2008), we identify synergic interactions between EI and some but not all other types of innovation.
Carbon emissions are considered as the major factor of environmental deterioration which makes environmental sustainability vulnerable and risky. Global warming is a severe challenge for most of the economies and the emerging seven (E7) economies are not exempted from this challenge. However, the factors helpful for the carbon emission reduction remained understudied in E−7 economies in the previous literature. Therefore, our study intends to cover this literature gap by estimating the role of eco-innovation, renewable energy, and environmental taxes for E−7 economies over 1995–2018 period. For the purpose of analysis, the study employs three different cross-sectional dependence (CSD) tests, CIPS and CADF unit root tests, (Westerlund & Edgerton, 2008) cointegration analysis, novel long run coefficient estimation approaches of Continuously Updated Full Modified (CUP-FM) and Continuously Updated Bias-Corrected (CUP-BC), and Dumitrescu and Hurlin (2012) panel heterogeneous granger causality test. It is revealed from the findings that renewable energy, eco-innovations, and environmental taxes have positive contributions towards carbon emission reduction. Moreover, a feedback or bi-directional causal relationship is found to be present between afore-mentioned variables and carbon emissions. Finally, our findings are robust to different policy implications that are helpful to control carbon emissions and their damaging environmental impacts.
In the era of information economy, the integration of the internet and traditional industries is pushing the rapid transformation of the world economy in a more innovative, smarter, and greener direction. Based on the panel data for 30 Chinese provinces for the 2006–2017 period, the level of China’s internet development is comprehensively evaluated using the full array polygon graphic index method. The spatial Durbin model and threshold model are used to empirically analyze the impact of internet development on environmental quality. The results indicate that China’s environmental pollution has a significant spatial spillover effect. Internet development can not only significantly reduce local environmental pollution, but also environmental pollution in neighboring areas. The regression results of the mediation effect indicate that internet development mainly affects environmental pollution by improving technological innovation, industrial upgrading, human capital and financial development. Finally, policy suggestions are proposed from the aspects of strengthening collaborative environmental governance and increasing internet infrastructure investment.
Although digital technologies grant documented operational and economic benefits, they can activate unwanted consequences for the environment and society. This research investigates these issues by exploring how firms can create a portfolio of technologies to perform corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals and then achieving responsible digitalization. The latter is defined as the firms' capacity of adopting digital technologies without underperforming in terms of CSR. Accordingly, we investigate the relationships between digital technologies and CSR to discover the firms' capacity to achieve responsible digitalization targets. Furthermore, we explore how the use of some green practices allows firms to increase the chances of achieving responsible digitalization goals.
Background
Unlike elective lists, full utilisation of an emergency list is undesirable, as it could prevent patient access. Conversely, a perpetually empty emergency theatre is resource wasteful. Separately, measuring delayed access to emergency surgery from time of booking the urgent case is relevant, and could reflect either deficiencies in patient preparation or be because of an occupied (over-utilised) emergency theatre.
Methods
We developed a graphical method recognising these two separate but linked elements of performance: (i) delayed access to surgery and (ii) operating theatre utilisation. In a plot of one against the other, data fell into one of four quadrants, with delays associated with high utilisation signifying the need for more emergency capacity. However, delays associated with low utilisation reflect process deficiencies in the emergency patient pathway. We applied this analysis to 73 consecutive lists (>300 cases) from two UK hospitals.
Results
Although both hospitals experienced similar rates of delayed surgery (21.8% vs 21.0%; P=0.872), in one hospital 83% of these were associated with low emergency theatre utilisation (suggesting predominant process deficiencies), whereas in the other 73% were associated with high utilisation (suggesting capacity deficiency; P<0.0001). Increasing emergency capacity in the latter resulted in shorter delays (just 6.7% cases excessively delayed; P<0.0001 for effect of intervention).
Conclusions
This simple graphical analysis indicates whether more emergency capacity is necessary. We discuss potential applications in managing emergency surgery theatres.
Conventional finance has many deficiencies in promoting green technology innovation (GTI) and energy-environmental performance (EEP). The emerging digital finance is filling the gaps left by conventional finance with the support of information technology. Using panel data from 2011 to 2017, the paper explores the impact of digital finance on energy-environmental performance in China. The results show that digital finance significantly improves China's energy-environmental performance, which remains robust after a series of tests. Green technology innovation is the transmission path through which digital finance affects energy-environmental performance. The impact mechanism test proves that digital finance affects pure technical efficiency rather than scale efficiency. Furthermore, we also find that digital finance has a greater stimulus effect on energy-environmental performance where credit and capital markets are more immature. Financial supervision and environmental regulation from the Chinese government can reinforce the role of digital finance in promoting energy-environmental performance. Our study suggests that China should accelerate digitization in the financial markets, particularly in pursuit of its energy-saving and emission-reduction effects.
Purpose
Over the last few decades, more emphasis has been placed on those innovations that can reconcile economic, social and environmental goals in order to achieve a “win-win-win” situation. This paper aims to systematise the scientific literature on Sustainable Innovation as a broad field in order to identify the most relevant scholars and their significant contributions as well as existing lines of research. Finally, future research directions are suggested.
Design/methodology/approach
A novel methodology, the Systematic Literature Network Analysis, has been applied. By using a dynamic approach to the traditional Systematic Literature Review, the present review investigates the creation, transfer, and development of knowledge throughout the epistemic community of Sustainable Innovation.
Findings
Starting from a sample of 1,108 articles, the critical assessment of the results detected five main themes: (1) “the role of Regulation, Market and Technology”; (2) “Eco-Innovation determinants and firm specific factors and the debate between corporate environmental performance and corporate financial performance”; (3) “Green innovation and internal and external drivers”; (4) “The strategic determinants of green (non-green) innovation”; (5) “The interplay between policy, regulations and the green innovation”.
Practical implications
From a practitioner's perspective, this study provides an objective view on the current internal, external drivers and strategic determinants of sustainability-oriented innovations and relevant studies that can guide managers in their decision-making processes and enhance sustainable innovation performance.
Originality/value
This study is a first attempt to unveil the evolution of knowledge in the field of sustainable innovation by utilizing bibliometric tools.
Green innovation plays a substantial role in creating new products and services, as well as in reducing environmental impacts and promoting the efficient use of resources and materials. This study investigates the linkage between green innovation and research and development (R&D) practices inside and outside firms over time; it also explores types of external partners. The results show that internal and external R&D efforts enhance the activities of green innovation. However, the external partner is an important factor, whereas cooperation with competitors could help firms in general affairs not related to competition.
Purpose
This study investigates the impact of Industry 4.0 technologies on green innovation performance. In this relationship, the mediating role of green innovation behavior is also studied. Moreover, open innovation is tested as a mediator between Industry 4.0 technologies and green innovation behavior.
Design/methodology/approach
A quantitative research method is adopted in which a structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 217 manufacturing firms of Malaysia. After collecting data, the partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique is applied to analyze data and test the hypothesis of study.
Findings
It is found that Industry 4.0 positively impacts open innovation which leads to green innovation behavior. Also, the former lays positive impact on green innovation behavior which leads to improve green innovation performance.
Research limitations/implications
The authors conclude that Industry 4.0 technologies can play an important role to improve green innovation performance of Malaysian manufacturing firms by managing open innovation for green innovation behavior which further improves the green innovation performance. In this context, it is recommended that strategists and policymakers should undertake the role of open innovation and Industry 4.0 technologies to promote environment-friendly innovations and to promote the green behavior in companies. The authors suggest hereby that firms should be given incentives to adopt and utilize Industry 4.0 technologies and collaborative innovation interactions – as they foster a climate for sustainable green innovations (which is also a key component to achieve competitive advantage) and a growing concern nowadays.
Practical implications
First of all the research contributes to achieving the broader of United Nations to promote sustainable innovation through green innovations. Moreover, the companies can also incorporate the findings and insights of this study while devising their policies to foster green innovations.
Originality/value
This research has done the novel contribution by bridging the gap between open innovation approach and sustainability fields while promoting green innovations in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). These two research fields are rarely studied in previous studies by focusing open innovation particularly. Hence, the authors suggest researchers to undertake these fields to further enhance the level of scholarship between innovation management and sustainability. Also, the authors recommend considering technological orientation and technological absorptive capacity of firms to improve green innovations. The current study has investigated the SMEs perspective in general irrespective to their sectoral differences, thus, for future researchers the authors suggest investigating the sector-wise comparison, i.e. electrical and electronics sector, chemical sector, etc.; or service and manufacturing sector differences.
Purpose
The aim of this study was to examine how manufacturing digitalization can be leveraged to promote green innovation in the digital era by investigating the effects of manufacturing digitalization on green process innovation, and thus firm performance. The authors also explored how the role of manufacturing digitalization varies with horizontal information sharing, vertical bottom-up learning and technological modularization.
Design/methodology/approach
Five hypotheses were examined by performing regression analyses on survey data from 334 manufacturing firms in China.
Findings
Manufacturing digitalization positively affects green process innovation, and thus firm performance. Furthermore, this positive effect is strengthened by horizontal information sharing and technological modularization and weakened by vertical bottom-up learning.
Originality/value
This study extends the literature rooted in the natural-resource-based view by identifying the crucial role of green process innovation and investigating the value of manufacturing digitalization for developing green capabilities in the digital era. It also contributes to this line of research by revealing contingent factors to leverage manufacturing digitalization from the information processing perspective. Furthermore, this study extends information processing theory to the digital context and identifies the interaction of organizational design (vertical bottom-up learning and horizontal information sharing) and digital investment (manufacturing digitalization).
Purpose
Drawing upon the intellectual capital-based view theory, this study explored the relationship between green intellectual capital (IC) and environmental performance (EP) with the intervening effect of green human resource management (GHRM).
Design/methodology/approach
Cross-sectional data were collected from 187 human resource directors/managers working in manufacturing firms of Pakistan. A partial least squares approach was applied to test the hypothesized relationships.
Findings
The results showed a mediating effect of GHRM on the relationship between green human capital and the organizational EP. Also two dimensions of green IC (green human capital, green relational capital) were also found positively related to the EP of the firm.
Practical implications
Policymakers should devote their attention to the preservation and enhancement of their employees' knowledge as green human capital is possessed by the employees. Furthermore, managers must exchange information with key stakeholders to better understand and resolve their environmental concerns. Organizational leaders must also ensure the implementation of GHRM policies that, in turn, improve the EP with the aid of green IC.
Originality/value
The current research contributes to the literature by defining green IC as an antecedent and GHRM as an intervening variable for EP. In addition, this study underlines the significance of GHC as a valuable intangible asset for the achievement of environmental sustainability. It also illustrates the importance of GRC, which creates an exchange partnership with the stakeholders to promote corporate environmentalism.
Employing a textual analysis of China’s provincial newspapers, this study examines the effect of local media coverage of environmental pollution on corporate investment. Using a sample of publicly listed firms in polluting industries, we document a significantly positive effect of media coverage on both the total investment and green investment of these firms. Further analyses reveal that the positive effect of pollution‐related media coverage on investment is more pronounced when firms have weak governance mechanisms. Overall, our findings imply that media not only play an important monitoring role but also enhance corporate social responsibility.
Despite the increasing interest in green innovation literature, little is known on how and under what conditions firms' knowledge transfer activities affect green innovation. There is a lack of research that on how particular organizational capabilities are seen more useful and how it influences on green innovation performance. To address this research gap, we examine a mediation model in which we explore whether a firm's knowledge acquisition capability and investment in environmental management mediate the impact of buyer-driven knowledge transfer activities on green product innovation and green process innovation. On the basis of an analysis of a sample of 239 manufacturing firms, we find that buyer-driven knowledge activities have a greater positive impact on green product innovation than green process innovation. Investment in environmental management fully mediates the relationship between buyer-driven knowledge transfer activities and green process innovation, and knowledge acquisition capability partially mediates the relationship between buyer-driven knowledge transfer activities and green product innovation. The current study provides evidence that internal competencies and the role of buyers in knowledge transfer are critical for explaining green product innovation and green process innovation. Our results suggest that buyer involvement pushes firms to develop resource acquisition capability to enhance green product innovation. Our results also highlight the importance of investment in environmental management for overcoming the environmental challenges in the manufacturing firms.
With mounting concerns about environmental deterioration worldwide, a great number of researchers highlight the important role of media coverage in disciplining firms’ pollution behaviors. By integrating the behavioral theory of the firm with the literature on the disciplining power of the media, this study extends understanding of the disciplining power of the media by showing how firms enact largely symbolic green acquisition to respond to media coverage about their pollution behaviors, essentially to protect managerial interests. Media coverage disciplining the pollution activities of listed Chinese firms in industries categorized as polluting from 2012 to 2016 provides strong support for the study’s hypotheses. The results demonstrate that media coverage of a firm’s pollution incident has a significantly positive effect on the likelihood of the firm’s subsequent green acquisition. For firms with media coverage of its pollution practice, green acquisitions inhibit the subsequent environmental investment, indicating green acquisitions are more likely to be symbolic impression management or a decoupling tactic rather than investment in green transformation. Past poor performance on profitability can strengthen the likelihood that symbolic green acquisitions are adopted to respond to negative coverage of pollution practices, while the existence of state-owned shareholders can reduce this likelihood. This study provided quantitative evidence about the media’s disciplining firms’ pollution behaviors which is conducive to policymaking and improving firm pollution control.
Many organizations carry out green innovation for sustainable development, but not all are successful. Based on the technology-organization-environment framework, this study examines how prepared enterprises are for green innovation in terms of technology readiness, organization readiness, and environment readiness. It is hypothesized that the necessary and sufficient conditions along each dimension enable and facilitate green innovation, leading to competitive advantage through the mediation of environmental performance and firm performance. To test the research model, survey observations were collected from 340 companies in China. Supporting the hypothesized relationships, the results show that the necessary and sufficient conditions of all dimensions make significant but somewhat different contributions to the success of green innovation. The measurement instrument and research framework provide a self-assessment tool for organizations to strategize the preparation and implementation of green innovation for optimal sustainability outcomes.
Based on stakeholder and upper‐echelon theories and following the logic of “leadership‐behavior‐performance,” this study constructs a model to investigate the relationships between responsible leadership, managerial discretion, environmental innovation, and firm's environmental performance. This study analyzed a sample of survey responses from 208 manufacturing firms. The results show that the three dimensions of responsible leadership (relationship building, relational governance, and sharing orientation) have a positive effect on incremental environmental innovation; relational governance and sharing orientation have a positive effect on radical environmental innovation; both incremental and radical environmental innovation have a positive effect on a firm's environmental performance; and finally, managerial discretion plays a significant and positive moderating role in the relationships between sharing orientation and incremental and radical environmental innovation, and between relational governance and radical environmental innovation.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was defined by United Nations Member States to provide a list of sustainable development goals (SDGs) aimed to achieve a more sustainable future. Greenhouse gas and CO2 emissions are now at their highest levels in history, and freight transport and logistics service industry has been recognized as one of the main contributors to environmental degradation. Nowadays, the influence of enabling technologies and green practices on business activities is growing and offers interesting opportunities to large firms and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) operating in freight transport and logistics service industry. More in details, affordable and scalable practices and solutions are now available to support companies to adopt measures able to reduce emissions and promote climate action goals. On the other hand, specific policies supporting the adoption of innovative practices and technologies are playing a pivotal role in assisting companies and supply chains to achieve SDGs. In this context, this paper analyses the degree of adoption of emerging green practices and enabling technologies in European logistics service providers (LSPs). The results of the cross-country analysis highlight a variety of behaviours of LSPs operating in the different countries in terms of managerial and technological strategies.
Since consumers, governments, and society in general are increasingly concerned about the loss of natural resources, along with pollution of the environment, there is currently a significant tendency to recognize the value of green innovation toward the achievement of sustainable development. Hotels are considered responsible for a considerable proportion of the environmental pollution caused by the tourism industry. Yet, few studies have considered the effects that green innovation may have on sustainable performance in the hotel industry. Consequently, the present study aimed to investigate the factors influencing the adoption of green innovation, and its potential effects on the performance of the hotel industry. Data collection was performed through inspection of 183 hotels in Malaysia. Data analysis was carried out employing the partial least squares method. The two factors of environmental and economic performance were determined to have the strongest influence, affecting the green innovation procedures positively and significantly. The results of the present study have major implications for hospitality research, since they demonstrate the importance and potential of green innovation in promoting sustainable performance in the hotel industry. The proposed model and the identified influencing factors of green innovation can assist policy makers and hotel managers in understanding the drivers leading to the adoption of these practices in the hotel industry.
Despite the demonstrated opportunities for revenue enhancement through digitalization, companies often experience a digitalization paradox. This paradox suggests that although companies may invest in digitalization, they often fail to achieve the expected revenue enhancement. In reporting research on 52 companies, we make the following four contributions: First, we focus on industrial companies in the business-to-business context, which largely have been neglected in previous research on digitalization. Second, we introduce the digitalization paradox as an important phenomenon in the discussion of revenue enhancement through digitalization. Third, we describe three growth paths: (1) commercializing digital solutions, (2) utilizing product connectivity, and (3) establishing an IoT-platform-based application business. For each growth path, the article takes a dynamic perspective on business models, highlighting triggers and modifications in business-model components (including value proposition, value-creation activities, and profit equation). Fourth, while the described modifications require initial investments to let these growth paths develop, we highlight how growth traps can prevent investments in business-model modifications from leading to revenue enhancement and how they can ultimately lead to the digitalization paradox.
This study explores the complementary effects among environmental innovation, organizational innovation, and training for innovation and their effect on firm productivity, within a supermodularity framework. Furthermore, it attempts to understand whether different innovation practices are complements or substitutes for firm profitability according to the industrial environmental regulation context by distinguishing between clean and dirty industries. Using a Spanish technological innovation panel survey over the period 2008–2015, our findings indicate that the interrelationship between different innovation practices is complementary rather than substitutive, and the pattern of complementarity among innovation practices differs according to the environmental regulation under which an industry operates. Engaging in a broad range of innovation practices such as environmental and organizational innovations, clean industry can strengthen productivity. For dirty industries, our results indicate a greater affinity between training activities and environmental innovation than between environmental innovation and organizational innovation on firm productivity achievement. Taken all together, these results provide managers with considerable insights in terms of how to adapt the various combinatorial practices to the industrial environment in which they are embedded, taking market and regulatory pressure into account.
The sustainable consumption behavior of customers affects the sustainable development of society. Customers’ pro-environment behavior provides economic benefits to society and ensures the sustainable development of the environment. Green economy and strategy are important in the hotel system nowadays. This study discusses the benefits of green hotel management in protecting the earth and establishes a green marketing-oriented model through stress cognitive theory. Smart partial least squares method is used for structural analysis to understand that green marketing orientation is important in practice. A total of 836 responses were collected from customers of a green hotel. This study found that stakeholders and executive corporate social responsibility hotels could indirectly increase consumer loyalty to the image of the hotel through green marketing.
Drawing upon the resource-based view and the ability-motivation-opportunity theory, we examined how green human resource management interplays on to the linkages amongst green transformational leadership, green innovation and environmental performance. Using a survey questionnaire, we collected triadic data from 309 manufacturing sector small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We used covariance-based structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine hypotheses in this study. Results of the study suggest that green HRM practices mediates the influence of green transformational leadership on green innovation. We also found that green HRM indirectly through green innovation influences firm's environmental performance. Overall, the findings of our study support all hypotheses of direct and indirect effects and have several theoretical and practical implications. Finally, our study significantly advances theory and suggests that HRM-performance relationship neither depends upon the additive effect of green transformational leadership and green innovation as antecedent and mediator, respectively, nor on their interactive effect but a mix of both combinational forms (ie., additive and interactive) to affect firm environmental performance. Overall, our study contributes and advances the previous studies wherein in leadership plays critical role to influence the HRM practices and that in turn to predict green innovation in the organization.
In recent years, information and communication technology (ICT) and its impact on society are debated; however, little research has been conducted regarding the future environmental consequences of ICT in various countries. However, this study presented the empirical analysis of the relationship between ICT, real income, and CO2 emissions while considering foreign direct investment and international trade. The study presents an innovative methodological approach by introducing the interaction of ICT with foreign direct investment and international trade. For empirical estimation, this study used the generalized least-square method in 59 countries along Belt and Road from 1990 to 2016. The results summarized that ICT mitigates the level of CO2 emissions in countries along Belt and Road. Further, the moderating effect of ICT and foreign direct investment reduces CO2 emissions and the interaction between ICT and international trade does the same. Based on the policy perspective, the countries along Belt and Road need to strategically focus on promoting trade and investment in the ICT sector and also on innovations to promote sustainable economic development.
Over the past few years, organisations have faced pressure from stakeholders to adopt environmentally friendly business practices, where it is becoming critical to identify green practices that boost sustainability. Despite green human resource management receiving significant interest from scholars, studies related to green practices remain limited, and are still emerging in a developing countries context. This paper aims to assess the level of implementation of green human resource management practices in Palestinian healthcare organisations, and their impact on sustainable performance in this important service sector. A mixed research approach was adopted by conducting 14 semi-structured interviews with human resource managers, operational managers, and chief executive officers within a range of areas in the healthcare sector in the West Bank. A survey was used as a quantitative tool for data collection from 69 respondents who have been using green human resource management practices at different managerial levels. Partial least squares structural equation modelling was used for data analyses. The findings revealed that green human resource management practices were implemented at a moderate level, where the overall mean of implementation was 2.42 on a scale of 5. Moreover, sustainable performance was achieved at a high level, 3.42 on a scale of 5. Identification and prioritisation of green practices were applied, where the most influential practices were ‘green hiring’, and ‘green training and involvement’; the least influential green practice was ‘green performance management and compensation’. In addition, the path coefficients test revealed that green human resource management practices had a positive influence on sustainable performance, where environmental sustainability had the highest path coefficient of β = 0.478; the lowest impact from social performance measured β = 0.372. This study provides scholars with a better understanding of green human resource management practices in a developing countries context, with empirical evidence of the role of green human resource management practices, in a bid to enhance employee behaviour towards sustainable performance. A framework was developed to provide policy makers with set guidelines on how to influence and implement green human resource management practices for maximised sustainable performance.
