articleBusiness Strategy and the EnvironmentSep 30, 2016GREEN OA

Green Product Innovation in Manufacturing Firms: A Sustainability‐Oriented Dynamic Capability Perspective

Sapienza University of Rome · McMaster University · +1 more institution

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Abstract

Abstract Despite environmental sustainability being identified as one of the key drivers of innovation, extant literature lacks a theoretically sound and empirically testable framework that can provide specific insights into green product innovation from a capability perspective. This study develops a theoretical framework from a sustainability‐oriented dynamic capability (SODC) perspective. We conceive SODCs as consisting of three underlying processes (external resource integration, internal resource integration, and resource building and reconfiguration) that influence the change/renewal of sustainability‐oriented ordinary capabilities (SOOCs) (green innovation capability and eco‐design capability). This…

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Keywords
  • Control reconfiguration
  • Sustainability
  • Dynamic capabilities
  • Resource (disambiguation)
  • Perspective (graphical)
  • Product (mathematics)
  • Product innovation
  • Business
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