Do corporate environmental ethics influence firms’ green practice? The mediating role of green innovation and the moderating role of personal ties

Ying, Guo; Wang, Lifang; Yang, Qian

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122054

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“…As a result of the first step of our analysis, we determined that green innovation significantly affects environmental and economic performance. The analysis results were consistent with the findings [16,36,39,40,46] in the literature. Since green innovation can help companies meet diverse customer needs [39], creates a distinct product advantage [19], provides for the development of new business models and better business opportunities [38], improves the corporate image and increases financial performance [67], and can help companies to gain a competitive advantage [46], it will be advantageous for businesses to invest in this direction.…”

Section: Discussion: Green Innovation and Open Innovation In The Envsupporting

confidence: 91%

“…In a study of 340 companies in China, Zhang et al [16] found that green innovation significantly affected performance. Likewise, Guo et al [39], in their survey on 416 companies in China, found that green innovation was associated with company performance. In their studies of 309 small and medium-sized manufacturing companies, Singh et al [40] concluded that green innovation affects environmental performance.…”

Section: Literature Review and Development Of Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…As a result, green innovation increases the market share of the corporation and returns high profits. In this way, companies can conserve resources, increase resource use, and reduce pollution [39]. Green innovation creates a distinct product advantage, allowing higher-priced products to be sold [19].…”

Section: Literature Review and Development Of Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Green Innovation in Environmental Complexity: The Implication of Open Innovation

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Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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People have become more conscientious about the environment in recent years. Increasing environmental awareness drives customers to be more selective about environmentally friendly products and forces governments to adopt environmentally friendly policies. As a result, competition in the market becomes more challenging. Thus, companies cannot remain indifferent to adopting environmentally friendly strategies to be sustainable. In this regard, this study investigates the effect of green innovation on firm performance. We also examined whether the environmental uncertainty moderates the investigated effect. For this purpose, first, data were collected from the first 1000 exporting firms declared in 2019 by the Turkey Exporters Assembly using a survey method. Secondly, factor analyses and regression analyses were performed with the data set obtained from 136 companies. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that green innovation increases both environmental performance and economic performance. It also was found that green innovation positively affects firm performance, but environmental uncertainty reduces this effect. According to these results, it was offered that firms should increase their green innovation activities to achieve better outputs and seek ways to reduce environmental uncertainty to keep these outputs at the maximum level. Finally, the research includes some considerations on the positive implications and potential of green innovation in an open-innovation context.

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Section: Discussion: Green Innovation and Open Innovation In The Envsupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: Literature Review and Development Of Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Green Innovation in Environmental Complexity: The Implication of Open Innovation

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et al. 2021

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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“…Worldwide, the role and implementation of ethical codes are have been examined in healthcare research (medicine, nursing, and pharmacy), but these studies (Bah and Sey-Sawo 2018; Roche 2019; Borysowski et al 2020; Pan and Ruble 2020; Young 2020) focused on the desired changes in the behavior of individuals or groups, they do not deal with factors affecting the code itself. In fact, the even managerial research does not focus on the issue of business ethics itself but is directed towards advanced specific issues such as the possibility of changing the ethical direction of the business sector trough building pro-social behavior (Konow 2019), the role of local initiatives in creating community cohesiveness in social change efforts (Parsons et al 2020) or influence firms' practices (Guo et al 2020). Therefore, our study is unique in its narrow focus on main factors that influence extent of the ethical codes not just in the conditions of multinational companies operating in Slovakia.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors Influencing the Extent of the Ethical Codes: Evidence from Slovakia

Kozáková

Urbanová

Savov

2021

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Even though formalization of ethical principles is a must in today’s business, research and evidence in the Slovak conditions remain scarce. Yet, creating an ethical business climate and especially the formalization of ethics through codes of ethics incorporated in corporate standards is a particularly interesting phenomenon in the conditions of transit economies due to the significant role of multinationals in this process. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine main factors influencing the extent of ethical codes in 225 subsidiaries of multinational companies operating in Slovakia. The conducted questionnaire study containing items focused on area and extent of ethical code, number of employees, economic performance, regional and industrial scope, ownership structure, and nationality of executive director was used as a tool for data collection. Factor analysis was processed to identify the interdependencies between observed variables and to find the latent variables. Further, the Kruskal–Wallis test was applied to identify the differences among the variables along with the Bonferroni correction test, which specified the items between which the significant difference occurred. The following findings emerged. First, companies with lower extent of ethical code use general phrases. When they want to specialize on any ethics problems, extent must be wider. Second, companies with a lower number of employees do not need extensive ethical code due to clear rules with which they are familiar in a direct way by owners. In multinational companies, the communication of ethical rules is realized via ethical codes with specific purposes because the direct way is impossible. Third, companies with foreign ownership used different managerial approaches, and therefore ethical codes differ in extent and content.

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“…Following this framework indicating the importance of time-and context-specific analyses, several contributions have been made by various authors, describing the aspects of knowledge and competences of green companies in the case of the following countries: China [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14], Australia [15], Brazil [16], Canada [17], Finland [18], Germany [19,20], India [21,22], Japan [23], Malaysia [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31], Pakistan [32][33][34][35][36][37], Romania [38], Slovakia [39], Asian-Pacific area (including Taiwan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, India) [40] and European countries (including France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom as one group) [41]. This study attempts to follow this framework and build on the research findings related to the knowledge and competences of companies (from the perspective of resource-based theory) [42][43][44] and knowledge management in organizations [45][46][47] (especially since the survival of companies largely depends on significant investments in knowledge manage...…”

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confidence: 99%

Knowledge, Competences and Competitive Advantage of the Green-Technology Companies in Poland

2020

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The article deals with the issue of competitive advantages based on the knowledge of Polish green-technology companies. It aims to identify the sources of knowledge and indicate companies’ competences in acquiring knowledge, which are believed to be the basis of their market success. Empirical research presented in this article was based on qualitative studies using in-depth interviews. The obtained results allowed to identify the most important sources of knowledge that can be structured into the following pillars: research and development works, knowledge on the competitors, customers and recipients, green technology domestic market, and foreign markets for green technologies. Moreover, it allowed to identify the competences of green-technology companies in Poland and describe the process of acquiring these competences. The analysis of the collected data and the obtained results allowed to create a model of acquiring new knowledge by green-technology companies in Poland, which serves as a basis for these companies to gain distinctive competences.

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Do corporate environmental ethics influence firms’ green practice? The mediating role of green innovation and the moderating role of personal ties

Cited by 96 publications

References 65 publications

Green Innovation in Environmental Complexity: The Implication of Open Innovation

Green Innovation in Environmental Complexity: The Implication of Open Innovation

Factors Influencing the Extent of the Ethical Codes: Evidence from Slovakia

Knowledge, Competences and Competitive Advantage of the Green-Technology Companies in Poland

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