Factors of green innovation: the role of dynamic capabilities and knowledge sharing through green creativity
Abstract
Purpose
The manufacturing industry has recently faced many environmental issues and pressures due to increased environmental awareness. Business leaders identified that green innovation (GI) is a crucial aspect of sustainable development (SD) and can provide a competitive edge. On the other hand, boosting SD through GI is a complicated network activity involving various partners, and there is a need to transmit or share knowledge equitably and acceptably. Following the natural resource-based view (NRBV), this research presents a novel framework for investigating how green knowledge sharing (GKS) and green dynamic capabilities (GDC) affect green creativity (GC) and GI directly and through GC. Besides, the moderation of mimetic pressure (MP) was also evaluated in these targeted relations, as it is a critical element for enhancing GI in the context of SD.
Design/methodology/approach
Data consisted 232 respondents from Pakistani manufacturing industries, and seven substantial hypotheses were verified regarding the direct, mediating and moderating effect of targeted variables in confounding ways using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM).
Findings
According to the empirical findings, GKS and GDC positively correlate with GC and GI. Moreover, GKS and GDC significantly and positively impact GI both directly and indirectly. Furthermore, GC partially mediates GI, whereas MP has a significant moderating effect in these relationships.
Originality/value
A significant correlation among these constructs was observed, demonstrating the conceptual framework for this study. These findings can assist practitioners and academics gain a better understanding of how to manage and evaluate GI in manufacturing projects at both the project and firm levels. Therefore, policymakers and project managers can enhance GI by focusing more on GKS, GDC, MP and GC.
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Acknowledgements
The authors wanted to thank the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund Project of the Ministry of Education with Grant No. 21YJA630067 and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities with Grant No. DUT21RW207. Furthermore, the authors are also thankful to the Key Research and Development Program of Shandong Province (Soft Science Research Project) grant no. 2021RKY02039 and Special Project of Shandong Social Science Planning Fund Program grant no. 21CSDJ03 for funding this research.
Citation
Ma, L., Ali, A., Shahzad, M. and Khan, A. (2022), "Factors of green innovation: the role of dynamic capabilities and knowledge sharing through green creativity", Kybernetes, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-06-2022-0911
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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