Enhancing Green Absorptive Capacity, Green Dynamic Capacities and Green Service Innovation to Improve  Firm Performance: An Analysis of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)

Chen, Yu‐Shan; Lin, Yu-Hsien; Lin, Ching-Ying; Chang, Chung‐Cheng

doi:10.3390/su71115674

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“…[39]. Thus, green products are designed to provide a reliable solution for environmentally-conscious consumers seeking affordable and high quality eco-friendly products [50]. For this reason, companies should absorb external environmental knowledge in order to satisfy environmental protection requirements and to design new, greener products or improve existing ones.…”

Section: The Effects Of Absorptive Capacity On the Firm's Green Produmentioning

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Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity as Complementary Drivers of Green Product and Process Innovation Performance

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Nowadays, companies need to absorb new knowledge from external sources to grasp environmental issues. However, the internal mechanisms through which external knowledge is turned into green innovations remain scarcely addressed. Hence, this paper aims to investigate the relationships between the two dimensions of absorptive capacity (potential and realized) with green products and process innovation performance. This study contributes to the literature by disentangling how companies need to acquire, assimilate, transform and exploit external environmental knowledge to develop green innovations. To this aim, this empirical study is based on a sample shaped by 112 firms belonging to the Spanish automotive components manufacturing sector. The results provide evidence to show that potential and realized absorptive capacities are positively related to both green product innovation performance and green process innovation performance.

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Section: The Effects Of Absorptive Capacity On the Firm's Green Produmentioning

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Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity as Complementary Drivers of Green Product and Process Innovation Performance

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“…The diversity of technological knowledge stimulates the firm to blend different knowledge elements, which represents a key cognitive process for generating innovative ideas [40], thus increasing the number and variety of potential combinations and novel solutions of new products [41]. For example, firms can combine existing and newly acquired environmental knowledge to develop green products that will be successfully promoted in the market [42].…”

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Advanced Manufacturing Technologies and Green Innovation: The Role of Internal Environmental Collaboration

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2016

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Green innovation has been deemed a key corporate capability to deal with environmental issues. The usage of advanced manufacturing technologies (AMT) provides important resources and knowledge for firms' green innovation. Drawing on a resources-based approach, this study contributes to the existing literature by examining how the adoption of specific types of AMT (process, design, and planning) influences two dimensions of green innovation (green product innovation and green process innovation). In particular, we explore these relationships through internal environmental collaboration. Based on data collected from 198 Chinese manufacturing firms, we found that process, design, and planning AMT can contribute to both green products and process innovation. Moreover, the findings confirm the significant mediating role of internal environmental collaboration in this relationship. Specifically, internal environmental collaboration mediates the relationship between process AMT and green product innovation as well as the relationship between design AMT and two dimensions of green innovation; it also partially mediates the relationship between process AMT and green process innovation as well as the relationship between planning AMT and two dimensions of green innovation. These findings provide novel insights into how manufacturing firms can use various types of AMT to enhance their green innovation.

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“…We draw on other studies that have linked absorptive capacity (ACAP) to customer capital [29]. We also draw on studies that have focused on assessing the relationship between ACAP and different green concepts such as green innovation [30,31], green ACAP [15], and green information technology [32]. However, there is a scarcity of empirical works that have addressed the complementary roles of ACAP and the fostering of an OU context in the enhancement of green customer capital (GCC).…”

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“…For instance, environmental management concepts such as green growth [10,11], green management [7,8], green marketing [12,13], green production [14], green absorptive capacity [15], green innovation [16][17][18], green intellectual capital [2,9], green supply chain management [19,20], green governance [21,22], green human resources [23], and among others are now widely used.…”

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The Effect of Absorptive Capacity on Green Customer Capital under an Organizational Unlearning Context

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Environmental management is becoming increasingly important within organizations and forms an essential part of their strategies. As customers are more concerned with the care of the environment, companies are required to be more aware of their actions. Consequently, companies must ignore their historical mindsets and assumptions to be able to adopt green-oriented practices and processes. Our specific research questions are: (i) How can firms become (more) green-oriented? and (ii) how can knowledge-based organizational capabilities drive this shift into greener companies, which may enhance green customer capital? The research model describes how the complementary roles of absorptive capacity (direct effect) and the fostering of an organizational unlearning context (moderating effect) affects green customer capital within the Spanish automotive component manufacturing sector. Empirical results reveal that to create green customer capital, companies should absorb new knowledge and build a context of organizational unlearning. In today's competitive environment, knowledge rapidly becomes obsolete, so companies need to encourage unlearning to make space for new knowledge that meets environmental needs and keeps pace with changing customer preferences. The research hypotheses were tested using partial least squares (PLS) path-modeling.

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Enhancing Green Absorptive Capacity, Green Dynamic Capacities and Green Service Innovation to Improve Firm Performance: An Analysis of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)

Cited by 124 publications

References 66 publications

Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity as Complementary Drivers of Green Product and Process Innovation Performance

Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity as Complementary Drivers of Green Product and Process Innovation Performance

Advanced Manufacturing Technologies and Green Innovation: The Role of Internal Environmental Collaboration

The Effect of Absorptive Capacity on Green Customer Capital under an Organizational Unlearning Context

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