Absorptive capacity and green innovation adoption in SMEs: The mediating effects of sustainable organisational capabilities

Environmental regulation and firm eco-innovation: Evidence of moderating effects of fiscal decentralization and political competition from listed Chinese industrial companies

Lean, green practices and process innovation: a model for green supply chain performance.

Impact of environmental regulations on green technological innovative behavior: An empirical study in China

Environmental regulations, environmental governance efficiency and the green transformation of China's iron and steel enterprises

Behind eco-innovation: Managerial environmental awareness and external resource acquisition

How does Chinese central environmental inspection affect corporate green innovation? The moderating effect of bargaining intentions

Search for exploratory and exploitative service innovation in manufacturing firms: The role of ties with service intermediaries

Many companies have become aware of the importance of green creativity for sustainable development in the face of an increasingly critical global environmental situation. As employee's green creativity serves as an important foundation for corporate green creativity, we divide green creativity at the employee level into green incremental and radical creativity and construct a theoretical framework to assess the effects of corporate environmental ethics on these two types of green creativity. We distribute 195 valid leader–employee matching questionnaires to a variety of companies in China. We find that corporate environmental ethics has a positive effect on both incremental and radical green creativity. Furthermore, we discover that employee environmental commitment partially mediates the association between corporate environmental ethics and the two types of green creativity identified above. Sustainable human resources management (HRM) plays a moderating role between corporate environmental ethics and environmental commitment and moderates the indirect effects of corporate environmental ethics on the two types of green creativity through the promotion of environmental commitment. These findings suggest that companies should improve their corporate environmental ethics and sustainable HRM to encourage employees to enhance their own environmental commitment and, in turn, increase their green incremental and radical creativity levels. Our study has significant implications for enhancing business innovation and achieving sustainable development. Finally, we also address the theoretical and practical implications of our findings. 

Corporate environmental ethics and employee's green creativity? The perspective of environmental commitment

Eco-innovation is the most promising way for enterprises to achieve green growth, and its adoption depends largely on executives’ choices. Therefore, this study investigates how executives’ ecological embeddedness affects the three dimensions of corporate eco-innovation by impacting two forms of executives’ environmental awareness. Eco-innovation includes eco-management innovation (EMI), eco-process innovation (EPsI), and eco-product innovation (EPtI). Environmental awareness consists of environmental risk awareness (ERA) and environmental cost–benefit awareness (ECA). Furthermore, this study examines the interrelationships between the two forms of environmental awareness and among the three dimensions of eco-innovation. Data collected from 192 Chinese manufacturing firms were used to test the hypotheses. The results support most of the proposed hypotheses with some exceptions, such as ECA positively affecting EPtI only as a partial mediator between ecological embeddedness and EPtI. Our findings contribute to understanding the antecedents of eco-innovation and complement research on executives’ social embeddedness. 

Does executives’ ecological embeddedness predict corporate eco-innovation? Empirical evidence from China

Xuerong Peng

Papers

Behind eco-innovation: Managerial environmental awareness and external resource acquisition

How does Chinese central environmental inspection affect corporate green innovation? The moderating effect of bargaining intentions

Search for exploratory and exploitative service innovation in manufacturing firms: The role of ties with service intermediaries

Corporate environmental ethics and employee's green creativity? The perspective of environmental commitment

Does executives’ ecological embeddedness predict corporate eco-innovation? Empirical evidence from China