Green Innovation and Profitability: The Moderating Effect of Environmental Uncertainty

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
pp. 12337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedikt Holzner ◽  
Marcus Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Green Innovation

scholarly journals Green Innovation in Environmental Complexity: The Implication of Open Innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Ieva Meidute-Kavaliauskiene ◽  
Şemsettin Çiğdem ◽  
Aidas Vasilis Vasiliauskas ◽  
Bülent Yıldız
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
Environmentally Friendly ◽  
Maximum Level ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Green Innovation ◽  
Environmental Complexity ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Innovation Activities

People have become more conscientious about the environment in recent years. Increasing environmental awareness drives customers to be more selective about environmentally friendly products and forces governments to adopt environmentally friendly policies. As a result, competition in the market becomes more challenging. Thus, companies cannot remain indifferent to adopting environmentally friendly strategies to be sustainable. In this regard, this study investigates the effect of green innovation on firm performance. We also examined whether the environmental uncertainty moderates the investigated effect. For this purpose, first, data were collected from the first 1000 exporting firms declared in 2019 by the Turkey Exporters Assembly using a survey method. Secondly, factor analyses and regression analyses were performed with the data set obtained from 136 companies. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that green innovation increases both environmental performance and economic performance. It also was found that green innovation positively affects firm performance, but environmental uncertainty reduces this effect. According to these results, it was offered that firms should increase their green innovation activities to achieve better outputs and seek ways to reduce environmental uncertainty to keep these outputs at the maximum level. Finally, the research includes some considerations on the positive implications and potential of green innovation in an open-innovation context.

scholarly journals An Empirical Study on Green Innovation Strategy and Sustainable Competitive Advantages: Path and Boundary

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baoshan Ge ◽  
Yibing Yang ◽  
Dake Jiang ◽  
Yang Gao ◽  
Xiaomin Du ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
Reference Value ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Innovation Strategy ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Green Innovation ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantages ◽  
The Impact

Although green innovation strategy (GIS) is the driving force for the sustainable development of enterprises, while the strategy is implemented, an increased cost and a change in organizational routines will cause an organization to become fragile, and even affect the sustainable competitive advantages. So, the purpose of this paper is to explore the impact path of GIS on sustainable competitive advantages and the implementation boundary of GIS. To explain the impact path, we consider the concept of dynamic capabilities to be the mediator variable. To explain the implementation boundary of GIS, we systematically explore the relationships among GIS, dynamic capabilities and sustainable competitive advantages under different levels of environmental uncertainty. Based on 241 new Chinese green firms, the empirical results find that GIS helps enterprises to gain sustainable competitive advantages. However, in the process of strategy implementation, enterprises should choose appropriate methods according to different degrees of environmental uncertainty. In a low environmental uncertainty, dynamic capabilities play a full intermediary role between GIS and sustainable competitive advantages. However, in a high environmental uncertainty, dynamic capabilities have no mediating effect between GIS and sustainable competitive advantages. This study not only integrates green management theory and strategic management theory but also makes up for the deficiencies in research on these theories and has important reference value for enterprises that seek to carry out green innovation activities.

scholarly journals Green entrepreneurship and SME performance: the moderating effect of firm age

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenli Yin ◽  
Maria Paz Salmador ◽  
Dan Li ◽  
M. Begoña Lloria
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Environment Protection ◽  
Utility Model ◽  
Firm Age ◽  
Green Innovation ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Green Entrepreneurship ◽  
Scholarly Attention

AbstractGreen entrepreneurship has been increasing with growing attention to environment protection by a variety of stakeholders. Green innovation, as the essence of green entrepreneurship, has attracted a broad range of scholarly attention with yet inconclusive findings regarding its effect on firm performance. According to our analyses of 1667 firms listed on SME board and GEM in China during the period from 2010 to 2019, we find interesting results regarding the type of green innovation involved and the moderating effect of firm age on the link between green innovation and SME performance. More precisely, we find green utility-model innovation positively influences firm performance for SMEs, whereas green invention innovation does not contribute to firm performance overall. More interesting, our empirical results suggest that older firms benefit more from both green invention innovation and green utility-model innovation than younger firms. This research contributes to the literature on green entrepreneurship as well as green innovation.

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