Impact of environmental regulations on green technological innovative behavior: An empirical study in China

Zhang, Yu; Wang, Juanru; Xue, Yajiong; Jin, Yang

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.04.013

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“…The support of the government is critical for guiding firms' green technology innovations (Zhang, Wang, Xue, & Yang, 2018). On the one hand, as Matos et al (2018) indicate, the unavailability of resources can present difficulties in the implementation of cleaner production technology, given that green process innovation involves fundamental changes to a firm's existing production process (Xie et al, 2016).…”

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“…Likewise, green technological efforts tend to vary depending on the exact environmental policies in place (Mantovani, Tarola, & Vergari, 2017). Thus, green subsidies-as a new economic incentive-may first bring about enthusiasm for a firm's green process innovation and then enhance its green process innovation, thereby achieving a more prominent green image (Chen, 2008;Zhang et al, 2018).…”

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Turning green subsidies into sustainability: How green process innovation improves firms' green image

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Green process innovation has been seen as a key strategy for manufacturing firms to pursue sustainable development. Yet, how to help manufacturing firms eliminate bottlenecks when implementing green process innovation remains poorly understood. To address this issue, the current study, which is anchored in the government incentive perspective, examines the drivers, contingent conditions, and consequences of green process innovation by using the panel data of manufacturing‐listed firms in China from 2013 to 2017. The results present valuable findings: (a) green subsidies are positively related to two dimensions of green process innovation, namely, cleaner production technology and end‐of‐pipe technology; (b) both cleaner production technology and end‐of‐pipe technology are positively related to firms' green image; (c) a firm's cleaner production technology mediates the relationship between green subsidies and its green image; and (d) higher absorptive capacity strengthens the indirect effect of green subsidies on a firm's green image via cleaner production technology. Our results provide meaningful theoretical and practical implications by revealing the benefits of green subsidies through green process innovation by leveraging levels of absorptive capacity.

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Section: Green Subsidies and Green Process Innovationmentioning

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Section: The Mediating Effect Of Green Process Innovationmentioning

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Turning green subsidies into sustainability: How green process innovation improves firms' green image

2019

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“…Green innovation is a new type of innovation by which firms implement new practice, processes, and products to prevent environmental damage and facilitate waste recycling (Chen, Cheng, & Dai, ). Current research suggests that factors, such as institutional pressures (Lin & Ho, ), environmental regulation (Hojnik & Ruzzier, ; You, Zhang, & Yuan, ; Zhang, Wang, Xue, & Yang, ), stakeholder pressure (Kawai, Strange, & Zucchella, ), external knowledge resources (Arfi, Hikkerova, & Sahut, ; Laursen & Salter, ), big data and environmental ethics (El‐Kassar & Singh, ), and market demands (Mondéjar‐Jiménez, Segarra‐Oña, Peiró‐Signes, Payá‐Martínez, & Sáez‐Martínez, ), influence firms' green innovation. As a complex and costly technological frontier (De Marchi, ; Liao, ), green innovation requires more diversified knowledge resources than traditional innovations (Cainelli, De Marchi, & Grandinetti, ; Martínez‐Ros & Kunapatarawong, ; Pacheco, Alves, & Liboni, ), especially complex technological knowledge and skills for eliminating environmental pollution (Liao & Tsai, ).…”

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Boundary‐spanning search and firms' green innovation: The moderating role of resource orchestration capability

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Building on resource-based theory and resource orchestration theory, we investigate the impact of two characteristics of boundary-spanning search, search breadth and search depth, on firms' exploitative and exploratory green innovations. We also examine the moderating role of resource orchestration capability. The results of data analysis from 186 manufacturing firms in China show that both search breadth and search depth have inverted U-shaped relationships with exploitative and exploratory green innovations. Furthermore, resource orchestration capability is found to moderate the inverted U-shaped relationship between boundary-spanning search and green innovation. Specifically, with high resource orchestration capability, the inverted U-shaped relationships of search breadth with exploitative and exploratory green innovations are flattened, whereas the relationships of search depth with exploitative and exploratory green innovations are almost linear. Our research contributes to the literature on green innovation by uncovering the complex effects of boundary-spanning search on exploitative and exploratory green innovations. KEYWORDS boundary-spanning search, exploitative green innovation, exploratory green innovation, resource orchestration capability, sustainable development

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“…Therefore, environmental sustainability is a key concern and an increasing source of pressure for firms' innovation endeavors [6,7]. In this serious situation, firms are increasingly concentrating on how to shift their innovation activities to be more green-oriented [8][9][10][11], which implies that both product and process innovations may motivate firms to show more concern for environmental sustainability [12].…”

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Linking Leaders’ Voluntary Workplace Green Behavior and Team Green Innovation: The Mediation Role of Team Green Efficacy

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Given the increasing significance of green innovation, scholars have identified environment-oriented leader behavior as a key antecedent of green innovation in firms. However, despite the fact that previous studies highlight all kinds of benefits of environment-oriented leaders’ voluntary workplace green behavior (VWGB) in and for firms, little is known about how these leaders’ VWGB could affect a firm team’s green product innovation as well as their process innovation. To narrow this research gap, this study theorizes and tests the effect of leaders’ VWGB on their team’s green innovation, as well as the mediation effect of team green efficacy belief on this relationship. Using a time-lagged research design, we collected data from 497 employees and 80 leaders in Chinese manufacturing firms. The results show that leaders’ VWGB directly affects both their team’s green product and process innovation, and facilitates the development of team green efficacy, which in turn stimulates team green innovation. This present study extends the multilevel phenomena by reinforcing the importance of leaders’ VWGB and team green efficacy on team-level green innovation, and provides practical implications on developing leadership for environmentally sustainable innovation.

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Impact of environmental regulations on green technological innovative behavior: An empirical study in China

Cited by 174 publications

References 48 publications

Turning green subsidies into sustainability: How green process innovation improves firms' green image

Turning green subsidies into sustainability: How green process innovation improves firms' green image

Boundary‐spanning search and firms' green innovation: The moderating role of resource orchestration capability

Linking Leaders’ Voluntary Workplace Green Behavior and Team Green Innovation: The Mediation Role of Team Green Efficacy

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