Do major customers encourage innovative sustainable development? Empirical evidence from corporate green innovation in China

Huang, Chang; Chang, Xiaoming; Wang, Yang; Li, Nicholas

doi:10.1002/bse.3123

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“…Green innovation is the process of promoting and improving products or production in energy conservation, pollution prevention, waste recycling, green product design, and environmental management (Chang, 2011; Chen, 2008; Martínez‐Ros & Kunapatarawong, 2019), which is a win‐win solution for firms to reduce the conflict between economic development and environmental protection (Bhatia, 2021; Hao et al, 2022). On the one hand, green innovation can help firms realize environmental benefits, such as saving energy, reducing carbon dioxide emission, and improving product recovery rate (Zhang et al, 2020); on the other hand, green innovation is beneficial for firms to increase economic benefits by promoting green production capacity, improving firms' image, and gaining customer recognition (Huang et al, 2022; Wang, 2020). Therefore, green innovation is an important strategy for firms to achieve sustainable development.…”

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Can proactive boundary‐spanning search enhance green innovation? The mediating role of organizational resilience

2022

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Green innovation is critical for firms' sustainable development, and its antecedents have attracted extensive attention. However, how proactive boundary-spanning search enhances firms' green innovation remains unclear. Building on the resourcebased view and dynamic capabilities theory, we explore the impact of proactive boundary-spanning search on firms' green innovation and investigate the mediating role of two types of organizational resilience. Survey data are collected from 218 manufacturing firms in China, and hierarchical regression and bootstrap analysis are used to test hypotheses. The results demonstrate that proactive boundaryspanning search not only has an inverted U-shaped relationship with radical green innovation and incremental green innovation, but also has an inverted U-shaped relationship with precursor resilience and improvisation resilience. Moreover, the results show that precursor resilience and improvisation resilience partially mediate the inverted U-shaped relationship between proactive boundary-spanning search and the two types of green innovation. This research reveals the nonlinear relationship between proactive boundary-spanning search and green innovation, which enriches the research of green innovation by considering organizational resilience.

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Can proactive boundary‐spanning search enhance green innovation? The mediating role of organizational resilience

2022

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“…Managerial ownership is measured by shares held by senior executives and log transformed (Liao et al, 2015). Previous studies show that managerial ownership affects firms' green innovation (Huang et al, 2023). Ownership concentration is measured as the total percentage of ownership held by the top five major shareholders of a company (Zhang et al, 2016).…”

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Does state participation promote or damage green innovation?

Qadeer,

Jiang,

Rehman

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Creat Innov Manage

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Although the literature advocates that the state plays a significant role in affecting firms' behaviour in emerging economies, whether state participation promotes or impedes firms' innovation decisions requires further scholarly attention. In this study, we develop a framework in which we examine how and under what conditions state participation affects firms' green innovation. Results from publicly listed firms in China show an inverted U‐shaped relationship between state participation and green innovation, so that state participation in the form of minority ownership is most effective for firms seeking to conduct green innovation. This curvilinear relationship is negatively moderated by firm age and firm size, such that the inverted U‐shape flattens when a firm is older and larger. The relationship is positively moderated by subnational institutional development such that the inverted U‐shape steepens when institutional development is higher. These findings provide useful implications for resource dependence theory in explaining whether state participation serves as a facilitator of or a burden on firms' green innovation.

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“…Environmentally conscious consumers are increasingly demanding firms tailor their strategy toward providing environmentally friendly products and services. Huang et al, 2023;Kesidou & Demirel, 2012.…”

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Leveraging business failure to drive eco‐innovation adoption: An integrated conceptual framework

Amankwah‐Amoah

2023

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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Despite a growing body of research on business failure and eco‐innovation, these two streams of research have developed in isolation, thus lacking an organizing framework to account for how businesses can utilize peer companies' failures as a source of eco‐innovation. This study addresses this gap in the current literature by advancing an integrated conceptual framework that illuminates failure as a catalyst for learning and the mechanisms through which organizations can enhance their environmental innovation efforts and competitiveness. The study proposes a multidimensional 2 × 2 typology encompassing dimensions of process and product eco‐innovation, alongside two underlying factors of business failure. These factors further elucidate the mechanisms through which organizations can learn from others' failures, ultimately becoming more resilient and adaptable in the face of new challenges. The implications of this analysis for future research and practice will be further examined, shedding light on promising domains for learning from failure and fostering innovation.

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Do major customers encourage innovative sustainable development? Empirical evidence from corporate green innovation in China

Cited by 39 publications

References 82 publications

Can proactive boundary‐spanning search enhance green innovation? The mediating role of organizational resilience

Can proactive boundary‐spanning search enhance green innovation? The mediating role of organizational resilience

Does state participation promote or damage green innovation?

Leveraging business failure to drive eco‐innovation adoption: An integrated conceptual framework

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