Green innovation to respond to environmental regulation: How external knowledge adoption and green absorptive capacity matter?

Zhang, Jianming; Liang, Gongqian; Feng, Taiwen; Yuan, Chunlin; Jiang, Wenbo

doi:10.1002/bse.2349

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“…This shared environmental knowledge generates new insights and key capabilities that enhance the firm's green innovation (Salavou et al, 2004). The direction of investment in green innovation can be strong for a firm when knowledge spillover is high, because firms' need to reduce environmental damage will encourage them to actively search for and share new green knowledge (Zhang, Liang, Feng, Yuan, & Jiang, 2020). A firm with a green interfunctional orientation can more clearly realize its environmental technological capability by identifying innovative product features desired by customers, enhancing green innovation advantage.…”

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An environmental perspective extends market orientation: Green innovation sustainability

Wang

2020

Bus Strat Env

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Though there has been much research into green performance, few studies have analyzed whether a green market orientation (GMO) is important. In this study, we propose and test a model that links three subconstructs of GMO (i.e., green customer orientation, green interfunctional orientation, and green competitor orientation) and green performance. The mediating role of green innovation and if there is a missing link between these relationships is also tested. By decomposing the components of GMO and introducing green innovation as a mediator, the results contribute to a more nuanced understanding of how and why green innovation is important in the linkage between GMO and green innovation. Using a survey of 248 high-tech firms in Taiwan, the results highlight three subconstructs of GMO in facilitating green innovation and green performance. Green innovation fully mediates the association between green interfunctional orientation and green performance. However, green innovation only partially mediates the effects of green customer orientation and green competitor orientation on green performance.

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An environmental perspective extends market orientation: Green innovation sustainability

Wang

2020

Bus Strat Env

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“…As this study measures the breadth and the importance based on the data on external sources for general innovations, it would be interesting to examine the same effects of these variables by employing data specific for external information sources for eco-innovation activities. In addition, a recent study by Zhang et al [12] offers a relevant clue that green absorptive capacity plays a significant role in the relationship between environmental regulation and firms’ adoption of external knowledge. Consequently, it might be of interest to scholars considering the role of firms’ absorptive capacity, which refers to firms’ ability to effectively use outside information [72,73,74] in determining the importance of used external information from different external sources.…”

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“…Under these circumstances, securing resources and capabilities to address such challenges has been crucial for businesses to bolster their competitiveness [4], which is normally accompanied by increased demands and pressures from different types of stakeholders on a firm’s pursuit of eco-innovation [5]. While there have been many studies identifying the drivers of eco-innovation of firms in terms of external and internal organizational factors [5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12], some of the determinants examined by the previous studies have yet to be delineated with a theoretical explanation and empirical evidence for the causality between such drivers and eco-innovation activities of firms. To fill this gap, this study investigates the following three understudied drivers of eco-innovation, in order to see how the three factors drive firms to be engaged with eco-innovation: Anticipated regulation and self-regulation as external factors, and information sourcing openness as an internal organizational factor.…”

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“…From a geographical point of view, much of the research is focused largely on developed countries such as Germany [6,7,19], Spain [20,21,22], UK [23,24], Ireland [9], and European countries [25,26]. Asian countries and regions, such as China [8,10,12] and Taiwan [27,28], have recently been studied, but there has been little research conducted on Korea, where pollution prevention and climate change issues have become the center of public interest. To keep pace with such public requests, the Korean government has proactively implemented policies relevant to environmental issues, mainly focusing on climate change.…”

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How Do Anticipated and Self Regulations and Information Sourcing Openness Drive Firms to Implement Eco-Innovation? Evidence from Korean Manufacturing Firms

Park

Hwang

2019

IJERPH

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Building upon institutional theory and the concept of openness to external sources in terms of breadth and depth, this study investigates the following three understudied drivers of eco-innovation in terms of external and internal factors: Anticipated regulation and self-regulation as external drivers, and information sourcing openness comprised of breadth and importance as internal drivers. Toward this end, this study employs a sample of 1824 Korean manufacturing firms collected from the Korean Innovation Survey 2010, which is compatible with the Oslo Manual and the Eurostat Community Innovation Survey (CIS). The current research adopts a multivariate probit model for the nine binary outcome variables and a zero-inflated negative binomial (ZINB) regression model for a count variable. It is found that, both anticipated regulation and self-regulation positively affect eco-process innovation and eco-product innovation across all of the nine eco-innovation types. The empirical findings on the effects of the breadth of external sources and the importance of used information acquired from external sources for innovative activities indicate that both the breadth and the importance have positive impacts on the number of types of eco-innovation with which a firm is engaged.

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“…The impacts of ERs on TI have been widely studied for several decades [14,15], and diverse resulting relationships (e.g., positive, negative, neutral and nonlinear) have been found [14,[16][17][18]. In this paper, we also analyze the impacts of ERs on TI in the Chinese context, but there are several differences compared to prior studies.…”

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Opening the Black Box: The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Technological Innovation

Zhang

Ramanathan

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Environmental regulations (ERs) that can stimulate technological innovation (TI) are the key to enabling a win-win strategy that benefits both economic development and environmental protection. This study seeks to analyze the impacts of ERs on TI. Previous literature highlighted that the black box of TI can be decomposed into technology investment and technology transformation, but empirical studies on such a decomposition have largely been ignored. Moreover, a detailed discussion of the links between ERs and the decomposed components of TI has not been conducted in developing countries such as China. Our study attempts to address these research gaps by (i) decomposing TI using a novel data envelopment analysis (DEA) procedure and further analyzing the impacts of ERs on the decomposed components of TI and (ii) applying this novel methodology to Chinese context. Accordingly, this study is conducted in two stages. First, a novel application of the slack-based measure Network DEA model is developed to uncover the black box of TI using Chinese data in order to estimate the overall efficiency of technological innovation (TIE) and to decompose it into the efficiency of technology investment (TVE) and the efficiency of technology transformation (TTE). Second, a random effect Tobit model is applied to (i) investigate both the linear and nonlinear impacts of ERs on TIE in all sectors and (ii) examine whether the impacts of ERs on TVE and TTE in different subprocesses are heterogeneous or not. Our results have showed the benefits of decomposing TI: while technology transformation in China closely follows the trend of TI, the trend of technology investment is somewhat different. The estimation results further indicate that the impacts of ERs on TIE are nonlinear. Besides, ERs have heterogeneous impacts on the decomposed components of TI. The impacts of ERs on TVE are nonlinear, whereas the impacts of ERs on TTE are statistically insignificant.

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Green innovation to respond to environmental regulation: How external knowledge adoption and green absorptive capacity matter?

Cited by 272 publications

References 79 publications

An environmental perspective extends market orientation: Green innovation sustainability

An environmental perspective extends market orientation: Green innovation sustainability

How Do Anticipated and Self Regulations and Information Sourcing Openness Drive Firms to Implement Eco-Innovation? Evidence from Korean Manufacturing Firms

Opening the Black Box: The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Technological Innovation

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