Organizational Learning and Green Innovation: Does Environmental Proactivity Matter?
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Research Background
3. Research Model
4. Methodology
5. Results
6. Discussions
7. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A. Measurement Items
- Our company can quickly absorb, master, and utilize green equipment and production processes acquired from outside.
- Our company is good at acquiring and utilizing external green technology and knowledge.
- Our company closely monitors green technology development trends.
- Our company has a strong green technology integration capability.
- Our company actively integrates extant green knowledge with internal operations.
- Our company frequently applies green knowledge to a specific problem or task.
- Our company effectively categorizes green knowledge for future use.
- Our company flexibly utilizes green knowledge to cope with a turbulent environment.
- Our company chooses product materials that produce the least amount of pollution.
- Our company chooses product materials that consume the least amount of energy and resources.
- Our company minimizes hazardous material use in products.
- Our company circumspectly deliberates product recycling, reuse, and decomposition.
- Our company figures out ways to reduce waste and emission.
- Our company recycles waste and treats hazardous emission by all means.
- Our company conserves resources (e.g., water, electricity) in business activities.
- Our company effectively utilizes materials in business activities.
- Our company is regarded as a benchmark of environmental management.
- Our company’s reputation on environmental management is stable.
- Our company is trustworthy about environmental management.
- Our company is dependable about environmental management.
- The quality of our company’s products/services is better than that of the competitors’.
- Our company is more capable of R&D than the competitors.
- Our company has better managerial capability than the competitors.
- It is hard for the competitors to take our company’s place in the market.
- Environmental awareness: Our company promotes environmental awareness in every area.
- Managerial priority: Our company gives high managerial priority to environmental issues.
- Legal compliance: Our company always attempts to go beyond basic legal compliance on environmental issues.
- Core value: Protecting the environment is a core value of our company.
- Top management support: Our company’s top management commits to sustainable development.
- Leading status: Our company leads the industry on sustainable development.
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Variable | Mean (SD) | α | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
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1. Absorptive capability | 3.63 (0.88) | 0.91 | 0.84 | |||||
2. Transformative capability | 3.98 (0.83) | 0.88 | 0.44 | 0.81 | ||||
3. Green product innovation | 4.13 (0.84) | 0.93 | 0.40 | 0.51 | 0.88 | |||
4. Green process innovation | 4.21 (0.75) | 0.90 | 0.41 | 0.52 | 0.57 | 0.84 | ||
5. Green image | 4.05 (0.79) | 0.93 | 0.53 | 0.65 | 0.65 | 0.62 | 0.87 | |
6. Competitive advantage | 4.15 (0.70) | 0.92 | 0.36 | 0.56 | 0.59 | 0.57 | 0.61 | 0.86 |
Dimension | Proactive (n = 224) | Reactive (n = 97) |
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1. Environmental awareness | 4.51 | 3.38 |
2. Managerial priority | 4.59 | 3.09 |
3. Legal compliance | 4.65 | 3.09 |
4. Core value | 4.66 | 3.19 |
5. Top management support | 4.63 | 3.36 |
6. Leading status | 4.55 | 3.01 |
Relationship | Proactive | Reactive | Difference |
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Absorptive capability↔Transformation capability | 0.46 ** | 0.13 | 0.33 ** |
H1. Absorptive capability→Green product innovation | 0.25 ** | −0.02 | 0.27 ** |
H2. Absorptive capability→Green process innovation | 0.23 ** | 0.09 | 0.14 * |
H3. Transformation capability→Green product innovation | 0.33 ** | 0.33 ** | 0.00 |
H4. Transformation capability→Green process innovation | 0.25 ** | 0.35 ** | −0.10 |
H5. Green product innovation→Green process innovation | 0.20 ** | 0.51 ** | −0.31 ** |
H6. Green product innovation→Green image | 0.40 ** | 0.17 | 0.23 ** |
H7. Green product innovation→Competitive advantage | 0.22 ** | 0.13 | 0.09 |
H8. Green process innovation→ Green image | 0.41 ** | 0.31 * | 0.10 |
H9. Green process innovation→Competitive advantage | 0.19 * | 0.47 ** | −0.28 ** |
H10. Green image→Competitive advantage | 0.24 ** | 0.10 | 0.14 * |
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Zhang, Y.; Sun, J.; Yang, Z.; Li, S. Organizational Learning and Green Innovation: Does Environmental Proactivity Matter? Sustainability 2018, 10, 3737. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10103737
Zhang Y, Sun J, Yang Z, Li S. Organizational Learning and Green Innovation: Does Environmental Proactivity Matter? Sustainability. 2018; 10(10):3737. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10103737
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhang, Yali, Jun Sun, Zhaojun Yang, and Shurong Li. 2018. "Organizational Learning and Green Innovation: Does Environmental Proactivity Matter?" Sustainability 10, no. 10: 3737. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10103737