The antecedents of green innovation performance: A model of learning and capabilities

Albort-Morant, Gema; Leal‐Millán, Antonio; Cepeda‐Carrión, Gabriel

doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.04.052

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“…Certain capabilities have been identified as contributing to develop sustainability programs, which, in turn, are related to environmental and organizational performance. These capabilities are shared vision, cross-functional coordination, and technology response [51][52][53]. A recent empirical study [13] shows that environmental orientation has a critical role in enhancing a firm's financial results, and that this link is stronger when the firm possesses adequate resources and capabilities committed to environmental activities.…”

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Factors Promoting Environmental Responsibility in European SMEs: The Effect on Performance

Sáez‐Martínez¹,

Díaz-García²,

Moreno³

2016

Sustainability

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There is increasing social and political awareness of the importance of developing environmental responsibility at a corporate level. When focusing on issues of responsibility, large companies are frequently perceived to be more responsible for driving climate change and resource depletion. However, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute significantly to the use of resources such as material and energy and produce approximately 64% of the pollution in Europe. Drawing on evidence from "The Eurobarometer 381 Survey on SMEs, Resource Efficiency and Green Markets", we analyze the environmental responsibility of European SMEs, studying their compliance with environmental legislation and how several factors drive environmental orientation among SMEs. Our sample consists of 3647 SMEs operating in 38 countries. Only around a fifth of the firms go beyond environmental regulations, showing the highest levels of environmental responsibility. We conduct OLS regressions to analyze the factors that affect a positive environmental attitude among European SMEs (internal drivers being more significant than external ones) and then, to observe the positive effect of environmental responsibility and firm's experience in offering green services/products on performance, although a conjoint effect was not found. Implications for practitioners, academics, and policy-makers are outlined.

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Section: H5: Cer Leads To Higher Performance In Smesmentioning

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Factors Promoting Environmental Responsibility in European SMEs: The Effect on Performance

Sáez‐Martínez¹,

Díaz-García²,

Moreno³

2016

Sustainability

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“…We first weighted and combined the items for each dimension and ran the first-order measurement model to create the latent variable scores. In the second stage, the three dimensions became the observed indicators of the spirituality construct, and then we ran the full structural model to evaluate the structural model results (Albort-Morant et al, 2016;Wright et al, 2012). The two-stage approach provided us 'the advantage of estimating a more parsimonious model on the higher level analysis without needing the lower order constructs' (Becker, Klein, & Wetzels, 2012, p. 366).…”

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Spirituality as an antecedent of trust and network commitment: The case of Anatolian Tigers

Kurt

Yamin

Sinkovics

et al. 2016

European Management Journal

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This paper investigates the role of spirituality in network commitment and trust building through a focus on the specific network context of Anatolian Tigers from Turkey. Despite the previous research employing utilitarian perspectives to explain the antecedents of commitment, the aim here is to understand the role played by spirituality, a higher-order dimension of human life, in commitment at a network level. The study adopts a survey approach. A hundred and twenty questionnaires were conducted through face-to-face meetings with owners/managers of the sample firms. A partial least squares (PLS) path modelling approach is employed to examine relationships through a 'soft-modelling' analysis, using SmartPLS 3. The results empirically confirm that spirituality operates as a significant antecedent of network commitment and trust in the context of networks among Anatolian Tigers. Furthermore, it is found that neither the length of membership nor the firm size has any significant effect on network commitment. The paper contributes to the understanding of antecedents of network commitment by going beyond traditional economic perspectives whose argument, historically, has been that commitment is driven by utilitarian, profit-and utility-maximizing motivations and economic self-interests. Keywords AbstractThis paper investigates the role of spirituality in network commitment and trust building through a focus on the specific network context of Anatolian Tigers from Turkey. Despite the previous research employing utilitarian perspectives to explain the antecedents of commitment, the aim here is to understand the role played by spirituality, a higher-order dimension of human life, in commitment at a network level. The study adopts a survey approach. One hundred and twenty questionnaires were conducted through face-to-face meetings with owners/managers of the sample firms. A partial least squares path modelling approach is employed to examine relationships through a 'soft-modelling' analysis, using SmartPLS 3. The results empirically confirm that spirituality operates as a significant antecedent of network commitment and trust in the context of networks among Anatolian Tigers. Furthermore, it is found that neither the length of membership nor the firm size has any significant effect on network commitment. The paper contributes to the understanding of antecedents of network commitment by going beyond traditional economic perspectives whose argument, historically, has been that commitment is driven by utilitarian, profit-and utility-maximizing motivations and economic self-interests.

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“…Drawing on the ambidexterity literature and organisational learning theory, we propose that customisation affects firms' organisational learning processes (cf. Wiersma 2007;Egelman et al 2017), which then drives their sustainable innovation (Albort-Morant, Leal-Millán, and Cepeda-Carrión 2016). In particular, we argue that the level of organisational learning depends on the alignment or non-alignment of modularity and solution space freedom.…”

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“…To complement their inhouse knowledge, TI firms thus need to rely on their suppliers (Brusoni, Prencipe, and Pavitt 2001), an important source of external knowledge (Albort-Morant, Leal-Millán, and Cepeda-Carrión 2016). Based on knowledge management theory, we argue that different customisation approaches require different types of supplier knowledge in order to increase learning.…”

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Balancing modularity and solution space freedom: effects on organisational learning and sustainable innovation

Vos

Raassens

Borgh

et al. 2018

International Journal of Production Research

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Many technology-intensive (TI) firms find it challenging to leverage customisation and achieve sustainable innovation. Although some firms use modularity to tackle this challenge, mixed effects on sustainable innovation have been reported. This study uses organisational learning and ambidexterity theory to provide insights into how TI firms can achieve 'winwin' situations where sustainable innovation is increased through customisation. First, we argue that customisation should be viewed two-dimensionally and identify both modularity and solution space freedom as important dimensions. We argue that modularity reflects knowledge specialisation and solution space freedom reflects knowledge variety. Both of these dimensions affect organisational learning and, in turn, sustainable innovation. Second, we argue that the relationship between customisation and organisational learning is affected by supplier characteristics, specifically supplier sophistication. Survey data from 166 managers were used to empirically test the conceptual model and hypotheses. Polynomial response surface analysis confirms that customising by balancing high degrees of both modularity and solution space freedom results in superior organisational learning. High levels of supplier sophistication do not strengthen these effects. Rather, our results show that combining high degrees of modularity with constrained solution spaces increases learning for TI firms working with less sophisticated suppliers. In addition, organisational learning fully mediates the effect of customisation on sustainable product and process innovation.Keywords: modularity; solution space; customisation; organisational learning; sustainable innovation IntroductionTo adapt to global competitive pressures, firms must accommodate heterogeneous customer needs while mitigating the ecological and environmental impact (Boër et al. 2013;Medini, Da Cunha, and Bernard 2015). On the one hand, the consumerisation of business-to-business (B2B) buying results in customers insisting on complex solutions against lower costs (Davie, Stephenson, and De Uster 2010;Lingqvist, Plotkin, and Stanley 2015). On the other hand, increasing global environmental concerns prompt firms to pay more attention to sustainable innovation, i.e. creating or improving products and processes to contribute to the ecological environment (Boons et al. 2013;Chen, Lai, and Wen 2006;Fiksel et al. 2014;Flores et al. 2008;Foxon and Pearson 2008). While firms have to pursue both customisation and sustainable innovation to remain competitive (Boër et al. 2013;Medini, Da Cunha, and Bernard 2015), pursuing both of these goals jointly is perceived as being very difficult (Boër et al. 2013).The manufacturing paradigms of customisation and sustainable innovation are frequently referred to in the literature, yet mainly treated in isolation. Recent research has brought the two paradigms together and has proposed to simultaneously model customisation and sustainability (e.g. Boër et al. 2013;Medini, Da Cunha, and Bernard 2015). How...

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The antecedents of green innovation performance: A model of learning and capabilities

Cited by 447 publications

References 45 publications

Factors Promoting Environmental Responsibility in European SMEs: The Effect on Performance

Factors Promoting Environmental Responsibility in European SMEs: The Effect on Performance

Spirituality as an antecedent of trust and network commitment: The case of Anatolian Tigers

Balancing modularity and solution space freedom: effects on organisational learning and sustainable innovation

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