Environmentally sustainable or economically sustainable? The effect of Chinese manufacturing firms' corporate sustainable strategy on their green performances

Yang, Morgan X.; Ji, Li; Yu, Irina Y.; Zeng, Kevin J.; Sun, Jian‐Min

doi:10.1002/bse.2296

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“…The results, presented in Table 7, showed that all coefficients were nearly consistent with the regression results found in Table 5. Second, given that firms' sustainability levels are positively related to corporate green image (Yang, Li, Yu, Zeng, & Sun, 2019), we performed a robustness check using “green image” as an alternative to “sustainability performance.” The findings, reported in Tables 8 and 9, were not significantly different from those shown in Tables 5 and 6. Third, we used the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) estimation method as an alternative to the bootstrap method.…”

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Exploring an innovative pivot: How green training can spur corporate sustainability performance

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2020

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In general, studies on green innovation practices have primarily taken an innovation view to study the costs and benefits to firms. What has been less examined, however, is how green training spurs the intentions and advantages of green innovation. Thus, this paper explores how and when green training influences the likelihood of firms to achieve sustainability performance by using organizational learning theory. Using a dataset of 231 Chinese manufacturing firms, our work shows that green training is positively correlated to corporate sustainability performance via the indirect effect of green innovation behavior. We also find an increasingly positive indirect effect that is conditional on ambidextrous learning; specifically, this indirect effect is least positive for firms with lower ambidextrous learning capacity but stronger for those firms having higher ambidextrous learning capacity. We hold that the key to spurring corporate sustainability performance through green training lies mainly in advancing firms' green innovation behaviors and persistently enhancing their capacities for ambidextrous learning. Thus, this study offers not only new theoretical insights for understanding the effect of green training on corporate sustainability performance but also practical implications for improving corporate sustainability performance within a green economy context.

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Exploring an innovative pivot: How green training can spur corporate sustainability performance

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2020

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“…However, research in this field is still limited. In particular, little research has focused on the Chinese context, which has experienced rapid economic growth but now faces severe environmental challenges and resource constraints (Yang, Li, Yu, Zeng, & Sun, 2019).…”

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Green Knowledge Sharing, Stakeholder Pressure, Absorptive Capacity, and Green Innovation: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms

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A central issue faced by many Chinese manufacturing firms is how to absorb and utilize green knowledge shared among supply chain members for superior green innovation. Invoking the indirect research stream of organizational learning theory, we develop a moderated mediation model in which absorptive capacity mediates the interactive effects of green knowledge sharing and stakeholder pressure on green innovation. Our hypotheses were tested using a sample of 247 Chinese manufacturing firms. The results from multiple regression and bootstrapping tests reveal that absorptive capacity fully mediates the link between green knowledge sharing and green innovation, and the mediation effect is positively contingent upon stakeholder pressure. These findings provide managerial implications for Chinese manufacturing firms, recommending that these firms effectively develop their absorptive capacities and closely monitor stakeholder pressure to realize the green innovation benefits of green knowledge sharing.

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“…The authors found that pressures like social, governmental, internal, and external are directly and positively linked to corporate environmental behaviour. Further, Yang, Li, Yu, Zeng, and Sun () found environmental strategy as more useful than economic strategy in order to enhance firm's green performance through an empirical investigation of 214 Chinese manufacturing organizations. Grolleau, Mzoughi, and Sutan () carried out quasi‐experimental test to check whether green advertisement dilutes perceived value of conventional products and found non‐presence of any such behaviour.…”

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Evaluation of critical constructs for measurement of sustainable supply chain practices in lean‐agile firms of Indian origin: A hybrid ISM‐ANP approach

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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the critical criteria that are influencing the successful implementation of sustainable supply chain practices (SSCP) in the lean‐agile manufacturing firm. From the systematic literature review and field professionals' opinion, various criteria that are influencing sustainable supply chain were identified. Data were collected from 16 experts and analysed by an integrated approach of “interpretive structural modeling (ISM) and analytic network process (ANP).” ISM methodology was utilized to get a hierarchical relationship between all criteria. Further, the input to the ANP matrices was taken from the output of ISM, and three organizations that differ in their principle of operation were ranked to find out the extent of implementation of SSCP in the Indian context. The obtained results indicate that “Information technology‐enabled system support (ITS), SC member's awareness and literacy (SAL), Societal issues (SIS), and Scarcity of natural resources (SNR)” were most significant constructs for successful implementation of SSCP for the case organizations.

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Environmentally sustainable or economically sustainable? The effect of Chinese manufacturing firms' corporate sustainable strategy on their green performances

Cited by 51 publications

References 63 publications

Exploring an innovative pivot: How green training can spur corporate sustainability performance

Exploring an innovative pivot: How green training can spur corporate sustainability performance

Green Knowledge Sharing, Stakeholder Pressure, Absorptive Capacity, and Green Innovation: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms

Evaluation of critical constructs for measurement of sustainable supply chain practices in lean‐agile firms of Indian origin: A hybrid ISM‐ANP approach

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