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  • Open Access
40 Citations
9,884 Views
14 Pages

7 August 2023

This study aims to examine and analyze the influence of green creativity and business independence on competitive advantage moderated by green IT empowerment. The research population is all creative SMEs in the Tangerang, Yogyakarta and West Java reg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
20,121 Views
21 Pages

5 September 2023

Our study explores the association between the adoption of green technology and the development of green dynamic capabilities to achieve green competitive advantage. This research concentrates explicitly on the mediating function of green product inn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
9,062 Views
21 Pages

Management of Green Competitive Advantage: A Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda

  • Rista Bintara,
  • Winwin Yadiati,
  • Muhammad Wahyudin Zarkasyi and
  • Nanny Dewi Tanzil

15 February 2023

The success or failure of a company is acquired from a competition, which requires a specific strategy to achieve competitive goals and benefits. One of these strategies is green competitive advantage (GCA) management, initially introduced in 2011, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,485 Views
22 Pages

9 February 2025

Owing to global warming and changing environmental factors, the world has been experiencing negative and major changes. Society is showing a strong reaction to these environmental problems through marches, protests, and political initiatives, which a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,009 Views
22 Pages

23 February 2023

The purpose of this research was to determine the impact of Green Intellectual Capital practices on the competitive advantages of companies in Poland. The study included 150 Polish producing enterprises located across Poland. The first stage of the a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,685 Views
19 Pages

Knowledge, Competences and Competitive Advantage of the Green-Technology Companies in Poland

  • Magdalena Marczewska,
  • Adrianna Jaskanis and
  • Mariusz Kostrzewski

23 October 2020

The article deals with the issue of competitive advantages based on the knowledge of Polish green-technology companies. It aims to identify the sources of knowledge and indicate companies’ competences in acquiring knowledge, which are believed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,621 Views
17 Pages

1 December 2021

This research aims to investigate the effect of green supply chain management (GSCM) on the competitive advantage (CA) of Jordanian pharmaceutical manufacturing (JPM) organizations. Data were collected by questionnaires from managers who were working...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
4,532 Views
14 Pages

The hospitality industry exerts significant pressure on the environment through the consumption of resources such as energy and water. However, the industry can also enhance environmental preservation through their operation and strategy. This study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,299 Views
19 Pages

16 August 2022

The purpose of this study is two-fold: first is to examine the direct effect of green customer integration, green supplier integration, and new product flexibility on sustainable green product innovation (henceforth sustainable innovation), and the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
6,379 Views
22 Pages

4 September 2020

This study examines the influences of market orientation, supply chain relationship quality, and absorptive capacity on competitive advantage in green supply chains. We examine the intensity of these relationships in a green supply chain context. Thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,156 Views
26 Pages

Based on natural resource-based theory, this study constructed a relational model between green intellectual capital, green innovation, and an agricultural corporate sustainable competitive advantage. The samples included a total of 341 agricultural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,069 Views
16 Pages

14 August 2023

The escalating environmental pollution primarily caused by construction enterprises has raised concerns about the urgent need for sustainable practices. This study aims to establish a novel framework of Green Organizational Capabilities (GOC) for con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,704 Views
18 Pages

8 November 2024

Environmental issues are increasing in importance for businesses day by day. Businesses are undergoing an environmentally focused transformation in all their activities within the value chain. Therefore, the necessity of integrating and maintaining t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
108 Citations
7,731 Views
18 Pages

The Mediating Role of Firm Strategy in the Relationship between Green Entrepreneurship, Green Innovation, and Competitive Advantage: The Case of Medium and Large-Sized Firms in Greece

  • Michalis Skordoulis,
  • Grigorios Kyriakopoulos,
  • Stamatiοs Ntanos,
  • Spyros Galatsidas,
  • Garyfallos Arabatzis,
  • Miltiadis Chalikias and
  • Petros Kalantonis

11 March 2022

The present research examines both the relationship between green innovation and green entrepreneurship and the mediating role of firm strategies in the relationship between green entrepreneurship, green innovation, and competitive advantage. A total...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,276 Views
31 Pages

9 October 2025

This study investigates the role of Modern Management Accounting (MMA)—which integrates Strategic Management Accounting (SMA) and Strategic Customer Knowledge (SCK)—in driving Sustainable Competitive Advantage (SCA) and Business Sustainab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,888 Views
18 Pages

11 May 2023

The fast-changing landscape of organizations is driving a move toward environmental performance. Higher education now prioritizes sustainability. This study examines the moderating role of environmentally specific servant leadership (ESSL) from the r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,780 Views
28 Pages

How Does Digital Transformation Moderate Green Culture, Job Satisfaction, and Competitive Advantage in Sustainable Hotels?

  • Gul Coskun Degirmen,
  • Derya Ozilhan Ozbey,
  • Emine Sardagı,
  • Ilknur Cevik Tekin,
  • Durmus Koc,
  • Pınar Erdogan,
  • Feden Koc and
  • Emel Arık

15 September 2024

Target groups within an organization adopt its culture, reflecting it in all internal and external business processes. Adopting a green organizational culture in hotels with sustainability certificates plays an important role in reshaping business pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,166 Views
27 Pages

18 October 2018

The study focuses on green competitive advantage from a multi-dimensional perspective, investigating the impact of green marketing tools and company descriptive variables on these dimensions. The data were collected from small, medium and micro enter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,448 Views
21 Pages

10 September 2024

With the continuous deterioration of the global ecological environment, energy saving, emission reduction, low carbon, and green industry have become new trends in global economic development. Green transformation (GT) and environmental, social, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
11,262 Views
21 Pages

Digital Leadership and Sustainable Competitive Advantage: Leveraging Green Absorptive Capability and Eco-Innovation in Tourism and Hospitality Businesses

  • Hamada Hussein,
  • Omaima Munawar Albadry,
  • Viju Mathew,
  • Bassam Samir Al-Romeedy,
  • Omar Alsetoohy,
  • Mahmoud Abou Kamar and
  • Hazem Ahmed Khairy

24 June 2024

This study explores the influence of digital leadership (DL) on sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) in tourism and hospitality businesses, focusing on green absorptive capability (GAC) and eco-innovation (EI) as mediators. This study focused on m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,497 Views
17 Pages

Adopting environmentally friendly behavior has become more than a claim. Green human resource management seems to be the solution where innovation will be a strategic lever to lead the company, with green practices, to the possession of a decisive co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
134 Citations
36,816 Views
13 Pages

Green Marketing as the Source of the Competitive Advantage of the Business

  • Dominika Moravcikova,
  • Anna Krizanova,
  • Jana Kliestikova and
  • Martina Rypakova

30 November 2017

In this work we focused on summarizing the principles of green marketing and the concepts related to it. The aim of this contribution was to prove the relationship between the implementation of green marketing principles and sustainable competitive c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,399 Views
20 Pages

3 March 2025

A significant portion of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are usually allocated to the construction sector, which plays a vital role in many economies. SMEs currently face serious concerns regarding the pursuit of sustainability. Limited fin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
122 Citations
12,355 Views
18 Pages

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

  • Baoshan Ge,
  • Yibing Yang,
  • Dake Jiang,
  • Yang Gao,
  • Xiaomin Du and
  • Tingting Zhou

11 October 2018

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, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,293 Views
23 Pages

18 December 2017

The paper explores the pricing policies and green strategies in a duopoly green supply chain with vertical and horizontal competition, which includes a green manufacturer, a traditional manufacturer and a common retailer. The purpose of the paper is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,738 Views
13 Pages

15 June 2018

Confronted with urgent green requirements from customers and government, firms in high pollution and high resource-consuming industries must make changes and adopt green strategies as well as knowledge-management strategies to develop and sell green...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,076 Views
18 Pages

10 March 2025

As sustainability becomes a strategic imperative in the manufacturing sector, firms are increasingly adopting green environmental practices to enhance their competitive advantage and long-term viability. This study investigates the influence of an In...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
53 Citations
10,085 Views
17 Pages

16 September 2016

Innovative solutions are often conjured as a key factor for companies to come closer to the goal of ecological sustainability. Furthermore, proactive eco-innovation activities can encompass competitive advantages. Companies are therefore well advised...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,534 Views
26 Pages

Catalyzing Green Identity and Sustainable Advantage in Tourism and Hotel Businesses

  • Fahad Kamal Alsheref,
  • Hazem Ahmed Khairy,
  • Omar Alsetoohy,
  • Osman Elsawy,
  • Sameh Fayyad,
  • Mahmoud Salama,
  • Bassam Samir Al-Romeedy and
  • Shimaa Abo Elsoad Mohamed Soliman

20 June 2024

Global environmental concerns necessitate a heightened focus on green practices by businesses to balance sustainability and profitability. Therefore, this study investigates the effects of green ambidexterity (GA), green organizational identity (GOI)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
192 Views
19 Pages

6 January 2026

This study examines the role of green information technology capital (GITC) and knowledge source on firms’ green competitive advantage (GCA), with the mediating role of ambidextrous green innovation strategy (AGIS), and the moderating role of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,306 Views
33 Pages

1 June 2023

Evaluation and selection of eco-innovation strategies is a significant and complex strategic decision, and despite the relevance and interest in the field of eco-innovation, the area of eco-innovation strategies has not been explored in depth in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,717 Views
25 Pages

Green Supply Chain Management Practices and Organizational Performance: A Mediated Moderation Model with Second-Order Constructs

  • Mohitul Ameen Ahmed Mustafi,
  • Ya-Juan Dong,
  • Md Sajjad Hosain,
  • Mohammad Bin Amin,
  • Md. Atikur Rahaman and
  • Masuk Abdullah

9 August 2024

This study highlights the rising significance of green supply chain management practices (GSCMPs) in elevating organizational performance (OP) within the Bangladeshi manufacturing sector. GSCMPs, structured as the single second-order independent cons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
9,054 Views
15 Pages

24 February 2018

Under increasing environmental pressure, hotel firms need to improve their ability to access international alliances while maintaining good performance for sustainable development. This paper uses survey data from 784 hotels running at different leve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
116 Citations
5,525 Views
30 Pages

Environmental Innovation, Open Innovation Dynamics and Competitive Advantage of Medium and Large-Sized Firms

  • Michalis Skordoulis,
  • Stamatios Ntanos,
  • Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos,
  • Garyfallos Arabatzis,
  • Spyros Galatsidas and
  • Miltiadis Chalikias

The present research investigates the contribution of environmental innovation to firms’ competitive advantage through the case of medium and large-sized firms operating in Greece. Due to the growing trend of environmental innovation in Greece...

  • Article
  • Open Access
113 Citations
14,130 Views
19 Pages

18 December 2015

Green IT has emerged as an important research topic in information systems and in other areas, such as business sustainability management. Some progress has been made in our understandings of green IT in a wide area of research topics, ranging from t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
10,403 Views
13 Pages

Sustainable Construction as a Competitive Advantage

  • Zhi-Jiang Liu,
  • Paula Pypłacz,
  • Marina Ermakova and
  • Pavel Konev

23 July 2020

Nowadays, sustainable construction (SC) is considered as a measure to support a healthy economy. The SC concept ensures quality of life and helps minimize the negative impact on the environment, human health, and biodiversity. SC fits into the modern...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,695 Views
19 Pages

Develop Eco-Friendly Enterprise: Aligning Enablers with Strategy

  • Ching-Torng Lin,
  • Yu-Hsuan Chang and
  • Chuanmin Mi

Environmental friendliness has been regarded as a fundamental characteristic of sustainability and competitiveness, yet such eco-friendliness is often not performed well. Based on the relationship matrix in the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) metho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,550 Views
28 Pages

19 September 2025

This study investigates how perceived ESG influences competitive performance through green technology innovation, with a focus on the moderating role of digital transformation. Grounded in social exchange theory and extending stakeholder exchange orc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
10,518 Views
21 Pages

Assessing the Impact of Green Training on Sustainable Business Advantage: Exploring the Mediating Role of Green Supply Chain Practices

  • Bashar Barakat,
  • Marwan Milhem,
  • Gehad Mohammed Ahmed Naji,
  • Mohammed Alzoraiki,
  • Habsah Binti Muda,
  • Ali Ateeq and
  • Zahida Abro

25 September 2023

This study examines how green training can give businesses a sustainable competitive edge. Environmentally conscious strategies and operations result in lower costs, improved reputation, increased customer loyalty, and increased market opportunities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
7,517 Views
18 Pages

19 January 2023

The stiff competition in the market, and continuous pressures from various stakeholders such as customers, business owners, environmental authorities, and society, in general, to produce unique products and services, protect the environment, and obta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
229 Views
28 Pages

30 December 2025

As the concept of innovative, coordinated, green, open and shared development gains popularity, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have come to acknowledge green product innovation (GPI) as essential to sustaining competitive advantage, embed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
648 Views
27 Pages

12 October 2025

As environmental degradation intensifies, governments increasingly subsidize green manufacturing to promote sustainability. This study develops a game-theoretic model of two competing supply chains, comprising original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
242 Citations
23,209 Views
24 Pages

Pathways towards Sustainability in Organizations: Empirical Evidence on the Role of Green Human Resource Management Practices and Green Intellectual Capital

  • Saqib Yaqoob Malik,
  • Yukun Cao,
  • Yasir Hayat Mughal,
  • Ghulam Muhammad Kundi,
  • Mudassir Hayat Mughal and
  • T. Ramayah

17 April 2020

According to the resource-based view (RBV), an organization can be viewed as a collection of human, physical and organizational resources. These resources are valuable and inimitable, and are the main source of sustainable competitive advantage and s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
20,070 Views
16 Pages

24 October 2020

Gaining a competitive advantage assumes that a company should build a unique position, but this concept is related to a relatively stable environment. However, it is difficult to predict the consequences of the enterprises’ changes, leading to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,913 Views
22 Pages

27 July 2023

Green supply chain innovation has gained significant attention from academics and practitioners due to its ability to mitigate chain liability risks, meet consumer environmental demands, and create sustainable competitive advantages. Digital technolo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
321 Views
20 Pages

26 November 2025

This study examines two competing green supply chains, each consisting of a supplier and a retailer, using a Stackelberg game model to investigate the impact of different levels of corporate reputation awareness on supply chain members. A comparative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
12,927 Views
21 Pages

26 April 2018

The United States is the most important textile import market in the world, and one of the most important export targets of developing countries. In view of its ecological environment and consumer health, the United States has put forward increasingl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,810 Views
18 Pages

1 January 2023

For organizations to remain competitive, they must now adapt to sustainability requirements, which have become performance criteria for supplier selection for most original Equipment manufacturers (OEMs). In this sense, environmental performance is n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,191 Views
27 Pages

14 March 2025

In the current context of severe environmental challenges and climate change, the low-carbon green development model has become an international consensus. This study establishes a green supply chain duopoly competition model, considering two types o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
5,837 Views
20 Pages

16 August 2021

With the expanding awareness of worldwide governments to ecological issues, the idea of protecting the environment has been initiated into the supply chain. The role of government in green supply chain management has become especially significant. Th...

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