Top managers' managerial ties, supply chain integration, and firm performance in China: A social capital perspective

Chen, Meng; Liu, Hefu; Wei, Shaobo; Gu, Jibao

doi:10.1016/j.indmarman.2018.04.013

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“…Based on RBV, as an important external resource, political capital is expected to strengthen the importance of environmental orientation. However, from the perspective of stakeholder theory, once political legitimacy is established, the importance of environmental orientation is likely to be decreased due to the high cost of dealing with environmental issues [28]. Thus, RBV and stakeholder theory suggest different moderating effects of political ties in the environmental orientation-green innovation link.…”

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The Effect of Environmental Orientation on Green Innovation: Do Political Ties Matter?

Feng

Zhao

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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Although the importance of environmental orientation has been recognized, how and under what conditions it influences green innovation is limited. To extend the research on green innovation, our research examines the impacts of two dimensions of environmental orientation on two types of green innovation, as well as the moderating role of political ties. Drawing upon stakeholder theory and resource-based view, we propose research hypotheses. We perform hierarchical regression analysis to validate the hypotheses that is based on survey data collected in 253 Chinese manufacturing companies. Our findings indicate that internal environmental orientation and external environmental orientation are positively linked with both green product innovation and green process innovation. The effect of internal environmental orientation on green process innovation is stronger than that of green product innovation. In addition, political ties strengthen the positive impacts of internal environmental orientation on green product innovation and green process innovation, while attenuating the positive impact of external environmental orientation on green process innovation. These findings contribute to theory and practice by enriching our understanding of how two dimensions of environmental orientation affect two types of green innovation.

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confidence: 99%

The Effect of Environmental Orientation on Green Innovation: Do Political Ties Matter?

Feng

Zhao

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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“…First, we extend previous studies on the institutional drivers of corporate sustainability strategies by showing that managerial ties with governmental officials, regulatory officials, top managers at other firms, and local community leaders feed into corporate proactive and responsive sustainability strategies of emerging market firms (Boso et al, 2017; Gao et al, 2019; Garcia & Orsato, 2020; Melissen et al, 2018). These institutional entities determine the structure and nature of commercial and economic exchanges in emerging markets (Peng & Luo, 2000; Xu et al, 2012), and we show that top‐level managers' relationships with key institutional actors substitute for the underdeveloped market systems in such markets by providing the local market intelligence and information needed to underscore corporate proactive and responsive sustainability strategies (Chen, Liu, Wei, & Gu, 2018; Park, 2018).…”

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confidence: 74%

Corporate sustainability strategies in institutional adversity: Antecedent, outcome, and contingency effects

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This study examines (i) how top‐level managerial institutional ties drive corporate sustainability strategies of emerging market firms operating under conditions of institutional adversity; (ii) the impact of corporate sustainability strategies on market performance; and (iii) the moderating role of financial resource slack on the relationships between corporate sustainability strategies and market performance. The study builds from institutional development logic and the structure–conduct–performance paradigm. Primary data are collected from 300 firms operating in a major sub‐Saharan African market. Findings show that top‐level managerial institutional linkages with regulatory national governmental officials, local community leaders, and top managers at other firms drive corporate proactive and responsive sustainability strategies, which in turn influence market performance. In addition, the findings reveal that financial resource slack strengthens the path between corporate proactive sustainability strategies and market performance, but not the path between corporate responsive sustainability strategies and market performance. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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“…Besides, the correlation coefficients and the path coefficients are a bit small. This may be due to the research design of multi-respondent survey which is helpful to reduce the potential common method bias and improve the validity of our findings (Chen et al 2018). As for this, future study could improve the accuracy of the research results by increasing the sample size.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…This study used SmartPLS for two major reasons. First, SmartPLS is ideally suitable for exploratory research and theory development, and has been extensively adopted in marketing and operations management research (Roberts et al 2010;Hair et al 2012;Chen et al 2018). Second, SmartPLS is much more advantageous with small sample sizes (Hair et al 2012).…”

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When cross-channel integration can benefit firm innovation and performance: the moderating role of e-commerce type

Pan

Liu

et al. 2020

J. of Data, Inf. and Manag.

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Cross-channel integration (CCI) has been adopted by firms to improve firm performance. However, the underlying mechanism by which CCI enhances firm performance remains unclear. To address this gap, we apply knowledge-based view and propose that CCI may affect firm innovation, thereby influencing firm performance. Specifically, we consider that exploratory innovation and exploitative innovation play the mediating roles between CCI and firm performance. In addition, the study explores the moderating effects of electronic commerce (EC) type (i.e., self-own website and third-party platform). We propose if CCI's effects differ in terms of EC type. Survey-based samples of 338 EC firms and structural equation modeling are employed to examine the research model. The results show that CCI can influence firm performance through the mediating role of exploitative innovation but not exploratory innovation. In addition, CCI has a stronger effect on firm innovation in third-party platform than in self-own website. This paper also discusses about the theoretical contributions and practical implications of the study.

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Top managers' managerial ties, supply chain integration, and firm performance in China: A social capital perspective

Cited by 96 publications

References 66 publications

The Effect of Environmental Orientation on Green Innovation: Do Political Ties Matter?

The Effect of Environmental Orientation on Green Innovation: Do Political Ties Matter?

Corporate sustainability strategies in institutional adversity: Antecedent, outcome, and contingency effects

When cross-channel integration can benefit firm innovation and performance: the moderating role of e-commerce type

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