Innovations and eco-sustainability: exploring the role of organizational environment

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richa Chaudhary ◽  
Chandan Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Organizational Environment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Innovation Characteristics ◽  
Environmental Sustainability Index ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to analyze the contribution of the diffusion of innovation framework to eco-sustainability. It examines the interplay of organizational environment, innovation and innovation adopters’ characteristics on the diffusion of environmental sustainability. Design/methodology/approach The data for empirical validation were obtained through an offline survey from the hospitals. The proposed conceptual framework was tested using the hierarchical regression analysis technique. Findings The results show that diffusion of innovation characteristics and organizational environment significantly influence the environmental sustainability index. The adopters’ characteristics do not have any direct effect on the environmental sustainability but this effect becomes significant in the presence of a favorable organizational environment. Practical implications Focusing on innovations that offer an advantage over the existing processes, are compatible with the existing system, are uncomplicated and simple to implement and can be experimented before full implementation may greatly accelerate the adoption of eco-innovations in hospitals. Fostering an organizational environment where employees are encouraged and rewarded for contributing to sustainable innovations can play a substantial role in the implementation of environmental sustainability innovations. Originality/value This study is an original contribution as it advances the limited understanding of the predictors and moderators of environmental sustainability in hospitals.

Fear of terror and employees’ behaviour in terrorist-ridden areas

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-137
Author(s):  
Shuaib Ahmed Soomro ◽  
Olivier Roques ◽  
Akhtiar Ali
Keyword(s):  
Terror Management Theory ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Stress Theory ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Negative Relationships ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This study aims to investigate the impact of fear of terror (FOT) on employee organizational commitment (OC) working in terror-induced areas through examining the role of rumination as a mediator and perceived organization support (POS) as a moderator. Design/methodology/approach The authors develop a model in which the mediating role of rumination in the FOT relationship is conditional to the values of OC. Using a sample size of 268 respondents, questionnaires were used to collect data from Pakistan during a period when terrorist attacks were at a peak. Results from the hierarchical regression analyses provided support for the developed model. Findings Overall, the statistical model is significant (p < 0.05); the authors found negative relationships between FOT and OC. The authors found that FOT positively led to rumination, which then negatively led to OC. It was also found that POS significantly moderated FOT and OC. Practical implications This study revealed that FOT is a deterring factor that changed employees’ OC. It further revealed that organizations providing support to employees working in terrorist-ridden areas showed positive commitment. This paper discusses the theoretical and practical implications of these findings. Originality/value This paper provides an examination of the relationship between FOT and employee OC. It expands our knowledge of the stress theory and terror management theory for employees working in discontinuous areas.

Effectiveness of power use in buyer-supplier negotiations

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. 932-952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Reimann ◽  
Pei Shen ◽  
Lutz Kaufmann
Keyword(s):  
Personality Trait ◽  
Dual System ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Conscious Decision ◽  
Negotiation Tactics ◽  
Resource Advantage Theory ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose Building on the dual-system approach and resource-advantage theory, the purpose of this paper is to investigate how a particular personality trait of negotiators – namely, agreeableness – moderates the effectiveness of using coercion and reward power to appropriate value in buyer-supplier negotiations. Design/methodology/approach Simulated negotiations in buyer-supplier dyads with 152 participants are analyzed using hierarchical regression analysis. Findings The analysis shows that negotiators’ agreeableness moderates the effectiveness of using coercion and reward power for suppliers, but not for buyers. Negotiators in the role of suppliers use reward power more effectively and coercion power less effectively if they have high agreeableness. Buyer negotiators benefit from using coercion, regardless of their personality. Research limitations/implications This research focuses on two common negotiation tactics and one particularly relevant personality trait. Future research might examine additional tactics and personality traits, and might delve deeper into explaining the observed differences between negotiators in the role of buyer and supplier. Practical implications The findings suggest that negotiators on the supplier side can improve their effectiveness by choosing tactics that fit their personality. Negotiators on the buyer side should consider using coercion power, regardless of their personality. Originality/value This research introduces dual-system theory to the supply chain management (SCM) literature and suggests that SCM research can benefit from simultaneously examining conscious decision processes and subconscious influences. It further suggests that the effects of dual-system interactions are sensitive to context, and more theory accounting for differences between buyers and suppliers in a dyad should be developed.

Ecological transcendence and ecological behavior: a test of the S-curve hypothesis

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (9) ◽  
pp. 1034-1055
Author(s):  
David B. Zoogah
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Dynamic Effects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Ecological Behavior ◽  
S Curve ◽  
Organizational Scholarship ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose Adopting a positive organizational scholarship perspective, this paper aims to examine dynamic effects of ecological transcendence on ecological behavior. Design/methodology/approach Based on 176 responses of employees from 46 organizations, the author found that both quadratic and cubic terms in the hierarchical regression equation were significant, evidence that ecological transcendence has an S-curve relationship with ecological behavior which suggests deficiency, goading and lulling effects. Findings The author finds a significant cubic term indicative of a signoidal relationship between ecological transcendence and ecological behavior. Research limitations/implications Implications for theory and practice are discussed. Given the growing interest in environmental sustainability, this study provides initial evidence of the dynamics of ecological behavior. Practical implications The study has implications for managing sustainability in organizations. Managers have empirical evidence of the dynamics which can serve as a basis for establishing mechanisms to goad growth and constraints to limit downturns. Originality/value The study is original in that it has not been published elsewhere except for presentation at a conference.

scholarly journals Examining desorptive capacity in supply chains: the role of organizational ambidexterity

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 534-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Isabel Roldán Bravo ◽  
Antonia Ruiz-Moreno ◽  
Francisco Javier Lloréns Montes
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Organizational Ambidexterity ◽  
Exploration And Exploitation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Independent Effects ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Desorptive Capacity ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain how a buying organization’s desorptive capacity relative to its supply network enhances the organization’s supply chain competence. The research also analyzes the contingent role of the balanced and combined dimensions of ambidexterity in this relationship. Design/methodology/approach Empirical results are obtained through analysis of survey data from a sample of 270 European firms. Hierarchical regression analysis is used to test the hypotheses. Findings The results confirm, first, the positive and significant relationship between the buying organization’s desorptive capacity and supply chain competence; and, second, the key moderating role of organizational ambidexterity, especially in its combined dimension, in this relationship. Practical implications The study suggests that desorptive capacity is key to the organization’s contribution to supply chain competitiveness. The authors also provide practitioners with better understanding of the extent to which they should attempt to balance exploration and exploitation or/and to maximize both simultaneously when seeking greater benefit from desorptive capacity. Originality/value This study extends desorptive capacity research to supply chain management. It responds to calls in the desorptive capacity literature for deeper understanding of the benefits of desorptive capacity and of the role organizational ambidexterity plays in the success of desorptive capacity. By analyzing the independent effects of the combined and balanced dimensions of ambidexterity, the authors advance conceptual and operational understanding of the role of ambidexterity needed in the literature.

Crossover of work–family conflict in supervisor–subordinate dyads in India: does LMX matter?

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-390
Author(s):  
Pavithra Sampath ◽  
Rupashree Baral ◽  
Mansi Rastogi
Keyword(s):  
Family Conflict ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Work Family Enrichment ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeThis study investigated the crossover of work–family conflict (WFC) from supervisors to subordinates employed in conventional work settings. The authors hypothesized that the supervisor’s WFC would impact the subordinate’s level of WFC, and the level of crossover would vary with relationship quality or LMX.Design/methodology/approachThe authors surveyed a matched set of 150 supervisors and 193 subordinates from several services organizations who were recruited using a snowballing technique. Data were analysed using hierarchical regression analyses and moderation testing.FindingsResults confirmed a significant direct crossover path. Further, the crossover was found to be lowered in the event of higher LMX quality.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings provide significant insights into the conditions under which transmission of WFC takes place by broadening crossover research in the work–family area. Future studies must explore the crossover of work–family enrichment and the role of leadership styles, empathy and perspective taking of subordinates in the crossover.Practical implicationsSupervisors must endeavour to reduce the level of WFC of subordinates by trying to build high-quality LMX by regularly interacting with them and by providing them a supportive climate. Employees in turn must support supervisors in various means, which will help them gaining manager’s trust and support.Originality/valueExamination of the potential mitigating effect of high-quality LMX in the crossover of WFC in supervisor–subordinate dyads has rarely been investigated in the past.

BAE Systems takes environmental training to the top

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-10 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Units ◽  
Executive Managers ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Roll Out ◽  
Key Questions

Purpose – Describes how BAE Systems, a global provider of defense and security products, is integrating environmental awareness into every business unit and helping its executives to consider the limitations and opportunities of the environment in their everyday functions. Design/methodology/approach – Details the role of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA)-City & Guilds course on leading with environmental sustainability in helping the company to achieve these changes. Also considers other environmental courses run by IEMA. Findings – Explains the two key goals of the training – to ensure a level of integration with other existing training and development schemes at BAE Systems and to get different senior people from across the business units together in one room so that they can collectively learn and appreciate how the environment affects the company's operations and how its long-life products – ships, planes and tanks – affect the environment. Practical implications – Reveals that engaging executive managers in the program, clarifying key questions for them and providing a model that they can support with its subsequent roll-out across their businesses is already providing huge benefits and extended buy-in. Originality/value – Reveals the growing role of environmental considerations in a global defense and security company.

The role of talent development in environmentally sustainable hospitality

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Bratton
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Talent Development ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of strategic talent development in supporting environmental management in the hospitality sector, as well as exploring its practical implications. Design/methodology/approach This paper examines a single public sector case study in the hospitality industry, a National Health Service conference centre. This case is part of a larger study in which qualitative and quantitative data were collected in six public and private sector workplaces in Scotland. Findings The findings emphasise the key role of leaders as change agents, and in promoting sustainability and encouraging workplace low-carbon behaviours. The findings demonstrate that an inclusive approach to talent development can play a key role in creating a pro-environmental culture and can significantly contribute to the long-term environmental sustainability of organisations. Research limitations/implications The scale of the research is limited to one public sector case study and restricted to the Scottish hospitality industry. Extending the research to multiple case studies in both the public and private sector in Scotland would be useful. Practical implications This paper makes recommendations about the role of line managers, blended learning strategies, organisational culture and employee participation in supporting workplace learning for sustainability. Originality/value This paper examines the role of strategic talent development in supporting environmental sustainability in the hospitality industry and provides unique insight for both academics and practitioners into a single public sector case study.

Linking leader humor to employee creativity: the roles of relational energy and traditionality

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Yang ◽  
Fu Yang ◽  
Chao Ding
Keyword(s):  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Employee Creativity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Indirect Relationship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Different Levels

PurposeThe current study examines the effects of leader humor on the creativity of employees by focusing on the mediating role of relational energy and the moderating role of traditionality.Design/methodology/approachThis study used three-wave data from 302 employee–supervisor dyads and tested the hypotheses using hierarchical regression and bootstrapping.FindingsThe results indicated that leader humor was positively associated with employee creativity, relational energy mediated this influence. Besides, traditionality not only moderated the relationship between leader humor and relational energy but also attenuated the indirect relationship between leader humor and employee creativity through relational energy.Practical implicationsLeadership training programs can be used to assist leaders in improving their humorous skills. In addition, supervisors should implement humorous behaviors according to the different levels of traditionality of employees.Originality/valueIntegrating conservation of resource theory, this study provides solid evidence that the extent to which relational energy mediates the relationship between leader humor and employee creativity depends on traditionality. It provides a new direction for leader humor.

Selecting early adopters to foster the diffusion of innovations in industrial markets

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 620-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mattia Bianchi ◽  
Anthony Di Benedetto ◽  
Simone Franzò ◽  
Federico Frattini
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovations ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Early Adopters ◽  
Industrial Markets ◽  
Longitudinal Case Studies ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to bring new empirical evidence to the controversial role of early adopters in the diffusion of innovations in industrial markets. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply an actor market configuration perspective to the analysis of four longitudinal case studies regarding the commercialization of new products in the textile, plastic and energy industries. Findings The diffusion of innovation is an interactive and iterative process where the commercializing firm engages in repeated interactions with different categories of companies that are targeted as potential early adopters. This process ends when the commercializing firm identifies a category of early adopters that can stimulate subsequent acceptance in the later market, by playing one of the following two roles, i.e. word-of-mouth trigger and industry benchmark. During this process, through which the role of the early adopters is constructed proactively by the commercializing firm, the product innovation is also subject to changes to provide a better fit with the selected category of early adopters. Research limitations/implications The paper calls for a re-conceptualization of the diffusion process, from a passive identification of early adopters to an interactive process that entails a trial-and-error approach in the targeting and involvement of different categories of early adopters, which ends when the innovation reaches the desired levels of diffusion. Practical implications The study provides managers with a number of recommendations for selecting the most proper category of early adopters for their innovations, depending on the role they are more likely to play and the influence they will exert on subsequent acceptance in the later market. Social implications The study provides managers with a number of recommendations for targeting, through a trial-and-error process, early adopters and working with them to champion the dissemination of new technologies. Originality/value This paper significantly adds to existing literature on the diffusion of innovation, which has up to now conceived early adopters as static and given entities, which cannot be proactively selected by the commercializing firm, and innovation as an immutable object.

Green supplier integration and environmental performance: do environmental innovation and ambidextrous governance matter?

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (7/8) ◽  
pp. 693-719
Author(s):  
Qiansong Zhang ◽  
Jieyi Pan ◽  
Taiwen Feng
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Environmental Innovation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Supplier Integration ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeSince firms are often puzzled with the adoption of proper governing mechanism to achieve their environmental benefits, this research examines how green supplier integration (GSI) affects environmental performance via environmental innovation and the moderating role of ambidextrous governance.Design/methodology/approachThe authors tested the hypotheses by adopting two-waved survey data from 206 Chinese manufacturers and the hierarchical regression analysis.FindingsThe results revealed that GSI is positively linked with both incremental and radical environmental innovation, which further enhance environmental performance. Moreover, balanced ambidexterity enhanced the link between GSI and incremental environmental innovation, while combined ambidexterity alleviated the link between GSI and radical environmental innovation.Practical implicationsFirms should integrate suppliers into their activities of dealing with environmental issues to realize environmental benefits through facilitating environmental innovation. Moreover, the choice of different dimensions of ambidextrous governance can affect the environmental benefits of GSI.Originality/valueThis research enriches the authors’ understanding of how to achieve environmental benefits by engaging in GSI, and it provides a novel and insightful approach for better managing GSI from the perspective of ambidextrous governance.

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