Green Human Capital Research Articles

Green Intellectual Capital and Firm Competitive Advantage: Evidence from Malaysian Manufacturing Firms

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between green intellectual capital and firms’ competitive advantage in Malaysia. More specifically this study examines the impact of four dimensions of green intellectual capital; green human capital, green innovation capital, green organisational capital and green relational capital on firms’ competitive advantage. Using survey as a method to collect data from 224 managers of manufacturing firms in Malaysia, the result shows that green intellectual capital and its dimensions, specifically the green innovation capital, green organizational capital and green relational capital have significant and positive relationship with firms’ competitive advantage. Overall, the findings highlight the importance of green intellectual capital as a valuable business resource which in turn enhances firm performance and competitiveness.

Practice of green intellectual capital. Evidence from Malaysian manufacturing sector

Very few studies have examined the connection between both intellectual capital (IC) with natural environment called as green intellectual capital (GIC). Regrettably, poor attention are given on GIC among both academicians and practitioners. This absence factor of natural environment can be acceptable in the past, but nowadays the natural environment become major challenge in the achievement of competitive advantage. More specifically, competitive advantage strategies in the current and future highly depends on the resources and capabilities that ease activity of environmental friendly. This approach arguing that the natural environment become a new and business opportunities and organisations that are willing to change their business operation to these challenges will obtain the economy’s survival in the future. Therefore, this study intends to report on the perceptions of manufacturing SMEs in Malaysia on GIC. There are eighteen variables on GIC that formed a part of a questionnaire using a seven-point interval scale. A total of 168 respondents returned the questionnaires and was analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) approach. The results of the study revealed that the existence of green human capital (GHC) and green relational capital (GRC) in the organisation. Nonetheless, green structural capital (GSC) become lowest factors among three dimensions of GIC.

Effect of Green Human Capital on Employees’ Intention to Quit: The Mediating Role of Employees’ Commitment

Effect of Green Human Capital on Employees’ Intention to Quit: The Mediating Role of Employees’ Commitment

Green Strategic Intent and Green Process Innovation Performance:The Role of Intellectual Capital

This study contributes to green innovation management literature by examining the relationships among firm’s green strategic intent, intellectual capital (human, organizational, and relational), and green process innovation performance. Building on the resource-based view of the firm, we argue that the green strategic intent of the firm impacts positively green process innovation performance via green intellectual capital. Analyses of multi-source data from 514 managers in 257 firms (257 top managers evaluating green strategic intent and green intellectual capital, and 257 safety or environmental managers evaluating green process innovation performance) show the following results. Green strategic intent plays a strong role in the deployment of green intellectual capital. While all of these capitals substantially contribute to green process innovation performance, green human capital has the strongest effects. Green organizational capital positively moderates the effect of green relational capital on green process innovation performance, whereas it negatively moderates the effect of green human capital. That is, a green organizational capital appears to be very important for absorbing the benefits of green relational capital as external capabilities, but there are decreasing returns to leveraging multiple types (institutional, individual efforts) of internal capabilities.

The Determinants of Green Product Innovation Performance

AbstractThis study utilizes structural equation modeling (SEM) to explore the positive effects of corporate environmental commitment and green human capital on green product innovation performance via the mediator: green adaptive ability. Green adaptive ability is the capability to comply with uncertain environmental regulations and environmentalism. This study tests the hypotheses in a sample of 136 of Taiwan's manufacturing companies. The findings in this study highlight the importance of corporate environmental commitment and green human capital that are determinants of green adaptive ability to develop green product innovation. The empirical results show corporate environmental commitment positively affects green product innovation performance directly and positively influences it indirectly via green adaptive ability. Green human capital, however, does not affect green product innovation performance directly. Green adaptive ability is a full mediator between green human capital and green product innovation performance but a partial mediator between corporate environmental commitment and green product innovation performance. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

The determinants of green intellectual capital

Purpose – This study aims to develop an original framework of green intellectual capital to explore the positive effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on green intellectual capital through the partial mediator ‐ environmental consciousness.Design/methodology/approach – This study summarizes the concepts of CSR and green management to develop an integral framework to enhance green intellectual capital. Structural equation modeling (SEM) is applied to verify the research framework.Findings – This study utilizes SEM to explore the influences of CSR and environmental consciousness on three types of green intellectual capital – green human capital, green structural capital, and green relationship capital. The empirical results of this study demonstrate that CSR and environmental consciousness have positive effects on three types of green intellectual capital. Besides, this study verifies that environmental consciousness is a partial mediator between CSR and three types of green intellectual capital. ...

Utilize structural equation modeling (SEM) to explore the influence of corporate environmental ethics: the mediation effect of green human capital

This study utilizes structural equation modeling (SEM) to explore the positive effects of corporate environmental ethics on green relationship learning and green innovation performance in the Taiwanese manufacturing industry. In addition, this study explores the concept of green human capital and discusses its mediation effect on the positive relationships between corporate environmental ethics and the two consequents: green relationship learning and green innovation performance. The empirical results show that corporate environmental ethics positively affects green relationship learning and green innovation performance. Furthermore, this study verifies green human capital mediates the positive relationships between corporate environmental ethics and the two consequents: green relationship learning and green innovation performance. Finally, this study divides the Taiwanese manufacturing companies into several different groups, and provides some suggestions to them.

The Positive Effect of Green Intellectual Capital on Competitive Advantages of Firms

No research explored intellectual capital about green innovation or environmental management. This study wanted to fill this research gap, and proposed a novel construct – green intellectual capital – to explore the positive relationship between green intellectual capital and competitive advantages of firms. The empirical results of this study showed that the three types of green intellectual capital – green human capital, green structural capital, and green relational capital – had positive effects on competitive advantages of firms. Moreover, this study found that green relational capital was the most common among these three types of green intellectual capital, and the three types of green intellectual capital of Medium & Small Enterprises (SMEs) were all significantly less than those of large enterprises in the information and electronics industry in Taiwan. In sum, companies investing many resources and efforts in green intellectual capital could not only meet the trends of strict international environmental regulations and popular environmental consciousness of consumers, but also eventually obtain corporate competitive advantages.