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Achieving sustainable competitive advantage through green entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation: The role of inter-organizational learning

Aluisius Hery Pratono (Faculty of Business and Economics, Universitas Surabaya, Surabaya, Indonesia)
Noviaty Kresna Darmasetiawan (Faculty of Business and Economics, Universitas Surabaya, Surabaya, Indonesia)
Ananta Yudiarso (Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Surabaya, Surabaya, Indonesia)
Bok Gyo Jeong (Kean University College of Business and Public Management, Union, New Jersey, USA)

The Bottom Line

ISSN: 0888-045X

Article publication date: 16 January 2019

Issue publication date: 19 March 2019

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Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to examine the role of the inter-organizational learning contributing in transforming the green entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation to the improvement of sustainable competitive advantages.

Design/methodology/approach

The structural equation model was established to explain the complex relationship between green entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation and sustainable competitive advantage. To test the hypothesis, this study used partial least square with data from a survey of 280 firms.

Findings

There is a strong tendency that the inter-organizational learning plays a pivotal role as an intervening variable that operates by receiving the input from green entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation, which plays as the exogenous construct. Hence, the greater inter-organizational learning leads the firms to achieve the greater sustainable competitive advantage.

Originality/value

This study extends the discussion on how organization should contribute to the well-being of the economic, social and environmental system by investigating the role of inter-organizational learning in achieving the sustainable competitive advantage.

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Citation

Pratono, A.H., Darmasetiawan, N.K., Yudiarso, A. and Jeong, B.G. (2019), "Achieving sustainable competitive advantage through green entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation: The role of inter-organizational learning", The Bottom Line, Vol. 32 No. 1, pp. 2-15. https://doi.org/10.1108/BL-10-2018-0045

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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