Green Management Innovation Research Articles

Are Good Deeds Rewarded?—The Impact of Traditional Morality and Modern Responsibility on Green Innovation

The essence of intergenerational sustainability emphasizes the necessity of incorporating altruistic thinking and culture. While prior studies primarily examined corporate innovation strategies from a self-interested lens, this paper aims to investigate the drivers of corporate green innovation from an altruistic perspective. Analyzing a sample of Chinese A-share listed companies from 2011 to 2019, we employ both the OLS model and the mediation effect model to explore how traditional morality and modern responsibility impact corporate green innovation, as well as the mechanisms underlying this relationship. Our findings reveal that both traditional morality and modern responsibility significantly enhance corporate green management innovation, with social trust serving as a key mediating factor. Furthermore, traditional morality and modern responsibility play distinctive roles depending on the stage of economic development: traditional morality primarily influences green innovation in the early stages of economic development, whereas modern responsibility becomes more influential as development progresses. This study provides meaningful insights for research and practice in corporate sustainability, business ethics, and innovation strategy.

Perceived policy uncertainty and enterprise greenwashing risk

Using data of Chinese A-share listed enterprises from 2009 to 2022, this study analyzes the impact of perceived policy uncertainty on enterprise greenwashing risk. The research identifies a significant positive correlation between perceived policy uncertainty and greenwashing risk. The mechanism test shows that strong perceived policy uncertainty increases enterprise greenwashing risk by increasing financial risk and financing constraints. In addition, overcoming managerial myopia and encouraging green management innovation are key to avoiding enterprise greenwashing risk in an uncertain policy environment. The paper's conclusions offer the Chinese government information to improve policy coherence and prevent enterprise greenwashing risk.

Green finance, green culture and corporate green management innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed companies

In the context of a rapid expansion of the green economy, there is a growing interest in understanding how green finance drives innovation in environmental management within enterprises. To investigate the nexus among green finance, corporate green management innovation, and corporate green culture, this study examines Chinese A-share listed companies spanning from 2009 to 2020. The findings reveal that green finance significantly promotes corporate green management innovation, and corporate green culture plays a mediating role in this process. The heterogeneity analysis indicates regional disparities in the influence of green finance on corporate green management innovation. Particularly, a more substantial increase in green management innovation is observed in the eastern and central regions, among high-tech corporations, and in non-heavy polluting corporations with heightened green finance.

Green innovation drives globalization: a longitudinal case study of Angel Yeast’s evolution from a start-up to a world-class manufacturer

In the increasingly competitive global market, emerging market companies, represented by China, have shown mixed performance during their development process. Many companies grow rapidly in the early stages of development but cannot maintain long-term growth. How to achieve sustainable development has become a major challenge for emerging market companies, and green innovation is considered an effective way to address this issue. Based on the resource-based view, this paper conducts a longitudinal case study on Angel Yeast as the research subject, dividing the development process of Angel Yeast into three stages: the start-up period (1986-2000), the growth period (2000-2010), and the maturity period (2010-present), discussing how Angel Yeast has grown from a small start-up company to a world-class manufacturer. The study finds that Angel Yeast has utilized its unique resources at different stages of development for green technology innovation, green product innovation, green management innovation, green marketing innovation, green supply chain management, and green organizational culture construction, enabling Angel Yeast to gain a sustained competitive advantage and grow into a global leader in the yeast industry. This paper expands the research on the evolution of emerging market companies under the resource-based view theory and enriches the understanding of the role of green innovation in the growth process of enterprises.

The Impact of Carbon Emission Trading System on ESG of Agricultural Enterprises: Evidence from 24 Listed Agricultural Companies in China

With China’s dual carbon goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, the carbon emission trading system will play a crucial role. In addition, agriculture, which is closely linked to carbon emissions, is a foundational industry in China. It is worth paying attention to how it responds to carbon emission trading policies. This study uses data from agricultural listed enterprises from 2009 to 2022, and employs the Difference-in-Differences (DID) method and the intermediary effect model. The evidence suggests that the the carbon emission trading system will significantly improve the the ESG evaluation of agricultural enterprises. Furthermore, green management innovation, green total factor productivity, and CSR information disclosure quality of enterprises will act as intermediaries. The study calls for the government to accelerate the establishment of a national carbon trading market, improve reward and penalty systems, and evaluation frameworks for green innovation in agricultural enterprises. It also emphasizes the need to strengthen pre-subsidies for small-scale enterprises, encourage environmental literacy training for management personnel in agricultural enterprises, intensify green innovation efforts, and establish relevant department assessments of corporate social responsibility.

The Impact of Green Supply Chain Management on Circular Economy Performance: The Mediating Roles of Green Innovations

Background: This study investigated the impact of green supply chain management (GSCM) on circular economy (CE) performance. The mediating roles of three green innovation types, namely green product innovation, green process innovation, and green management innovation, are also examined. Methods: This study’s population comprised all companies in the manufacturing sector in Jordan. A simple random method was applied to gather data from 278 companies. The research model was evaluated in terms of validity and reliability, which were found to be satisfactory. Hayes’s PROCESS macro in IBM SPSS was applied for hypothesis testing. Results: The findings showed that GSCM directly and positively affected CE performance. Moreover, GSCM showed positive impacts on the three types of green innovation. In addition, the three innovation types demonstrated positive impacts on CE performance and proved to positively mediate the GSCM–CE performance relationship. Conclusions: The present study is the first, to the best of our knowledge, to examine the mediating effect of green innovations on the GSCM–CE performance relationship. It is also among the first to examine the impact of GSCM on three different types of green innovation that represent technological and non-technological innovations.

Green supply chain management practices and environmental performance in the healthcare sector: the mediating role of green innovation

Purpose This study aims to assess the effects of green supply chain management (GSCM) strategies on health-care organizations’ environmental performance (EP). It also assesses that green innovation (GI), including green technology innovation (GTI) and green management innovation (GMI), plays mediating roles in the connection between GSCM and EP. Design/methodology/approach In total, 375 health-care sector employees in the Chattogram division of Bangladesh provided opinions in the questionnaire survey. PLS-SEM was used to verify the data’s validity and reliability and assess the hypotheses. Findings The findings reveal that GSCM practices significantly positively impact GI and EP. Moreover, GTI and GMI mediate the relationship between GSCM and EP in Bangladesh’s health-care sector. Practical implications The current findings could promote environmental sustainability in Bangladesh’s health-care industry by fostering environmental collaboration. Originality/value The detection of the mediation effect of GTI and GMI on GSCM and EP is a unique contribution of this study that enriches the present GSCM and GI literature, particularly in the Bangladeshi health-care sector.

Understanding sustainable outcomes in the digital age: The vital role of digital leadership in leveraging the impact of green innovation

The increasing complexities posed by green organizational challenges and technological advancements require a thorough grasp of the vital capabilities needed to maintain the firm’s sustainable performance. This study aims to explore the associations of green technological innovation and management innovation to sustainable performance and estimate to what extent digital leadership moderates these associations. The resource-based view (RBV) and socio-technical system theory (STS) are leveraged to conceptualize the research model. By adopting a survey-based approach on data gathered from 419 manufacturing and service firms, the PLS-SEM is the statistical approach conducted to test the validity of predictions The outcomes demonstrated that green technological innovation, green management innovation, and digital leadership are positively linked to sustainable performance. Furthermore, higher digital leadership strengthens the linkage of green technology and management innovation to sustainable performance. The outcomes made a powerful contribution to the current literature on green innovations and digital transformation, and substantial recommendations were inferred for organizations aiming to achieve environmental, social, and economic performance.

Assessing the Impacts and Mechanisms of Green Bond Financing on the Enhancement of Green Management and Technological Innovation in Environmental Conservation Enterprises

Assessing the Impacts and Mechanisms of Green Bond Financing on the Enhancement of Green Management and Technological Innovation in Environmental Conservation Enterprises

Artificial Intelligence and Carbon Emissions in Manufacturing Firms: The Moderating Role of Green Innovation

Carbon emissions have gained worldwide attention in the industrial era. As a key carbon-emitting industry, achieving net-zero carbon emissions in the manufacturing sector is vital to mitigating the negative effects of climate change and achieving sustainable development. The rise of intelligent technologies has driven industrial structural transformations that may help achieve carbon reduction. Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is an important part of digitalization, providing new technological tools and directions for the low carbon development of enterprises. This study selects Chinese A-share listed companies in the manufacturing industry from 2012 to 2021 as the research objects and uses a fixed-effects regression model to study the relationship between AI and carbon emissions. This study clarifies the significance of enterprise AI technology applications in realizing carbon emissions reduction and explores the regulatory mechanism from the perspective of the innovation effect. The results show that the application of enterprise AI technology positively impacts carbon emissions reduction. Simultaneously, green technological innovation, green management innovation, and green product innovation play moderating roles; in other words, enterprise green innovation strengthens the effect of AI on carbon emissions reduction. This study clarifies the necessity of intelligent manufacturing and enriches theories related to AI technology and carbon emissions.

Environmental regulation, green innovation and high-quality development of enterprise: Evidence from China

Environmental regulation, as a safe line of defense for the ecological environment, is an important practical exploration to guide green innovation and to promote high-quality development of enterprise. This research examines the impact of environmental regulation on high-quality development of enterprise and the realization path based on the data of Chinese A-share listed enterprises from 2010 to 2020. The fixed-effect model reveals a significant positive correlation between environmental regulation and high-quality development of enterprise. Moreover, the chain intermediation model is used to examine the realization path. Specifically, environmental regulation hinders enterprises' green management innovation and thus has a negative impact on high-quality development of enterprise, which is manifested as a masking effect. Environmental regulation has a positive impact on the high-quality development of enterprise through enhancing green technology innovation or the intermediation chain of "promoting green technology innovation - driving green management innovation". Heterogeneity analysis reveals that environmental regulation has a facilitating effect on the high-quality development of enterprises for non-state-owned enterprises, and enterprises within the carbon emission trading pilot areas. In addition, environmental regulation has the strongest promoting effect on high-quality development of enterprise in the mature stage, followed by the growth stage. The research provides actionable paths for the government to optimize the institutional system of ecological environment construction and accelerate the modernization process of environmental governance.

Mixed Ownership Reform and Environmental Sustainable Development—Based on the Perspective of Carbon Performance

Mixed ownership reform has contributed greatly to China’s economic development; however, there is little literature on how mixed ownership reform affects carbon performance in the context of environmentally sustainable development. Therefore, this paper takes A-share industrial state-owned enterprises in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2008 to 2020 as research samples to investigate the impact of mixed ownership reform on carbon performance through empirical tests. The results show that the mixed ownership reform of state-owned enterprises can improve the carbon performance of enterprises. The intermediary test shows that green innovation plays an intermediary role in the relationship between mixed ownership reform and carbon performance. Furthermore, compared with green management innovation, mixed ownership reform has a stronger promoting effect on green technology innovation, and green technology innovation has a greater impact on carbon performance. Heterogeneity analysis shows that in heavily polluted industries and competitive industries, mixed ownership reform of state-owned enterprises has a more significant role in improving carbon performance. Therefore, the mixed ownership reform of state-owned enterprises is of great significance for promoting environmental sustainable development. Overall, this study provides empirical evidence for the environmental sustainable development of state-owned enterprises in emerging markets.

Greening the Bottom Line: Investigating the Influence of Green Management Innovation on Firm Financial Performance in the Pakistani Manufacturing Sector

Due to growing worldwide industrial apprehension, adopting green innovation ` essential in addressing environmental issues. Current study investigates the impact of green management innovation (GMgt) on firm financial performance (FPP). In addition, this study examines the mediating effect of green process innovation (GPrcI) and green product innovation (GPdI) between GMgt and FPP. Data were analyzed through SPSS and AMOS. Based on a sample of 307 top and middle level employees in the Pakistani manufacturing industry. The results revealed that GMgtI has a significant impact on FFP. Second, GPrcI significantly mediates the relationship between GMgtI and FPP. Third, GpdI insignificantly mediates the relationship between GMgtI and FFP. The results also showed that green image significantly moderates the relationship between GPrcI, GPdI and FPP. Finally, the study provides implications for manufacturing firms interested in implementing green innovation practices.

Test of a sequential mediation model of green management innovation

ABSTRACT Drawing from servant leadership, organizational support, and conservation of resources theories, our paper tests a sequential model of green management innovation (GMI). Specifically, our paper assesses: (a) the effect of green servant leadership (GSL) on GMI; (b) perceived organizational support for the environment (OSE) as a mediator between GSL and GMI; (c) green knowledge sharing as a mediator of the link between GSL and GMI; and (d) perceived OSE and green knowledge sharing as the sequential mediators linking GSL to GMI. Data were collected in different service settings. The results from structural equation modeling reveal that perceived OSE and green knowledge sharing serially and completely mediate the effect of GSL on GMI. In an environment where there are GSL practices, employees have favorable perceptions of OSE and display green knowledge sharing behaviors to boost GMI. The authors discuss the aforesaid findings and offer implications for managers and future research.

Policy mix comprehensiveness, resource availability and green innovation of firms

The functionalist view of policy mix comprehensiveness always regarded it as the extensive use of policy instruments and strategies to solve the multiple failures in sustainability transitions, but ignored the politic and power relations embodied in. To fill this gap, this study extended the concept of policy mix comprehensiveness from the perspective of political sociology, and proposed that the policy mix comprehensiveness represented the complex and tangled relations between governments and the governed, which might increase risks and administration burdens, thus impaired the green innovations of firms. This study further proposed that the resource availability of firms could moderate the relations between policy mix comprehensiveness and green innovation of firms. 22989 firm level data from Chinese textile industry were collected to verify the hypothesis. Our research found that policy mix comprehensiveness has positive correlations with green management innovation of firms, while has negative correlations with green technology innovation of firms, thus impaired the overall green innovation of firms. The financial resources, political resources and knowledge resources could moderate the relationship between policy mix comprehensiveness and green innovations. In doing so, our study provided a foundation for future research to explore the interactions between government and the governed and the organization behaviors in policy mix research.

A Hybrid Approach in Designing and Validating a Green Quality Management Model in the Food Industry

In recent years, global reports on the irreparable damage of human economic activities to the environment, the need for efficient management systems capable of reducing pollutants and waste management and the optimal use of non-renewable resources, more than any other another time is needed. Therefore, in order to achieve this, a study was presented with the aim of designing and validating a model for green quality management in the food industry. The present study is an exploratory combination that through qualitative strategies with library study methods and grounded theory, a conceptual model is obtained and then through a quantitative strategy of structural equations with Smart PLS approach, the conceptual model of the research is tested and its goodness is calculated. Is. In the qualitative section, after extensive study in the theoretical literature on the subject and taking notes, as well as through theoretical and purposeful sampling with a selection of 24 experts and officials, a semi-structured interview was conducted. In the quantitative part, according to the Vinzy rule, 192 managers and experts of the food industry have been selected as a sample and the data have been collected using a researcher-made questionnaire. According to the findings of the qualitative section and after coding, finally 5 main categories and 19 sub-categories were extracted that green management of human resources from causal conditions and green management thinking as underlying conditions, technology management and environmental management system as intervening conditions. Green management innovation was selected as a strategy and also green supply chain as a consequence of green quality management model. The results show that the conceptual model designed with grounded theory approach was approved by experts and the GOF criterion was used to validate the model, which is higher than the level of fit classification based on the theory of Wetzel’s et al. (2009) which indicates that has it.

Distance matters: Investigating how geographic proximity to ENGOs triggers green innovation of heavy-polluting firms in China

Along with the growing concern over resource depletion and environmental damage, an increasing number of firms, especially heavy-polluting firms, have confronted with intense pressure imposed by various stakeholders like government, media and Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations (ENGOs). Specifically, ENGOs, as a classic informal institution, has gradually become as important as governments in stimulating polluting firms to reduce pollutant emissions and implement green innovation. At the same time, due to the imbalances of ENGOs' resource endowments and geographic distributions in various regions, the normative pressure from ENGOs on polluting firms may also differ by geographic distance. Given that, building on economic geography and institutional theory, the current study developed a theoretical framework to illustrate the relationship between geographic proximity to ENGOs and firms' green innovation. The roles of ownership types and regional pollution level are then examined. For a sample of Chinese heavy-polluting firms from 2009 to 2015 and employing multiple linear regression, the study found that a firm's geographic proximity to ENGOs affects green technology innovation positively and significantly. However, the effect of geographic proximity on green management innovation varies as the radius changes. In addition, the regression results also indicated that the positive relation between geographic proximity and green technology innovation is stronger in SOEs than in NSOEs. In turn, the positive relation between geographic distance beyond a 100 km radius and green management innovation is stronger in NSOEs than in SOEs. Moreover, the results further demonstrated that regional pollution level weakens the impact of geographic proximity to ENGOs on green management innovation. The study not only provides an enhanced understanding about the literature on corporate environmental responsibility but also has important practical implications for prompting heavy-polluting firms' green innovation with the aid of ENGOs.

Is institutional pressure the mother of green innovation? Examining the moderating effect of absorptive capacity

The excessive consumption of natural resources in industrial development has led scholars to pay increasing attention to firms’ impact on the environment. Faced with considerable environmental pressure, many firms have begun to integrate green innovation into their business strategies. Based on the institutional theory and absorptive capacity perspective, this study examines the role of different institutional pillars on firms’ green innovation decision and further evaluates the interaction effect of absorptive capacity with institutional pillars. Using datasets from listed Chinese companies, this study examines the above hypotheses. As a result, we identify the heterogeneous effect of institutional pressures on green technology innovation and green management innovation and find a significant effect of absorptive capacity on the relationship between institutional pressures and green technology innovation. The conclusion of this study enriches the literature on institutional theory and the absorptive capacity perspective and has implications for firms’ green innovation practices.

Does green innovation mitigate financing constraints? Evidence from China’s private enterprises

In recent years, corporate green innovation has become a hot topic in society and academia, but the relationship between green innovation and financing conditions is less frequently discussed. Based on stakeholder theory, this paper explores whether green innovation can alleviate corporate financing constraints. An empirical test using a sample of Chinese non-financial private enterprises listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchange from 2012 to 2017 is established. The results of regression analyses show that green innovation, including green technology innovation and green management innovation, can significantly reduce the financing constraints of enterprises. Moreover, the interaction between corporate environmental disclosure and green innovation can have a positive effect, further improving the financing conditions of firms. These findings remain valid after endogenous and robustness testing including instrumental variables (IV), propensity score matching (PSM) and updated models. Additional research illustrates that green innovation plays a stronger role in alleviating financing constraints among heavily polluting enterprises. The above findings contribute to the literature concerning green innovation and corporate financing and provide a valuable reference for implementing green innovation, improving the financing environment and policy making.

Impact of knowledge management practices on green innovation and corporate sustainable development: A structural analysis

The current study examines the role of knowledge management (KM) in green innovation and corporate sustainable development (CSD) activities. The researcher collected data from lower, middle and upper-level managers of small, medium and large-sized manufacturing and services firms located in Pakistan. The data was analysed through structural equation modelling (SEM) to investigate how KM processes, namely knowledge creation, acquisition, sharing and application, impact on green technology and green management innovation and environment, social and economic aspects of sustainability. As per the results, KM significantly impacts on green innovation and CSD activities. Green innovation also indicated significant positive impact on CSD. The dimensional analysis indicated that with the exception of knowledge creation and acquisition, which indicated an insignificant impact on social sustainability, all the paths indicated significant results. Moreover, KM is found as equally important for all sizes manufacturing and services firms.