“…Following this framework indicating the importance of time-and context-specific analyses, several contributions have been made by various authors, describing the aspects of knowledge and competences of green companies in the case of the following countries: China [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14], Australia [15], Brazil [16], Canada [17], Finland [18], Germany [19,20], India [21,22], Japan [23], Malaysia [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31], Pakistan [32][33][34][35][36][37], Romania [38], Slovakia [39], Asian-Pacific area (including Taiwan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, India) [40] and European countries (including France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom as one group) [41]. This study attempts to follow this framework and build on the research findings related to the knowledge and competences of companies (from the perspective of resource-based theory) [42][43][44] and knowledge management in organizations [45][46][47] (especially since the survival of companies largely depends on significant investments in knowledge manage...…”