This study develops a contingency framework to investigate how and when innovation intensity and creativity enhancement affect a firm's eco-innovation strategy by drawing upon the perspectives of the resource-based view and stakeholder theory.This investigation aims to explore whether firms with high innovation intensity and creativity enhancement really pursue eco-innovation strategy. Our examination is based on a sample of 2,126 manufacturing firms. By using a hierarchical regression, the results reveal that the effects of innovation intensity and creativity enhancement on eco-innovation strategy depend on customer demand and environmental regulation. Specifically, customer demand positively moderates the effects of innovation intensity and creativity enhancement on eco-innovation strategy, whereas existing regulation has a weaker effect on the relationship between innovation activities and eco-innovation strategy than that of anticipated regulation.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.