Enhancing corporate sustainable development: Stakeholder pressures, organizational learning, and green innovation
South China University of Technology · Guangdong University Of Finances and Economics · +1 more institution
Abstract
Abstract Green innovation has become the main path toward achieving corporate sustainable development. Despite the centrality of organizational learning in firms pursuing green activities, little research has considered its role in the relationship between stakeholder pressures and green innovation. By combining stakeholder theory and organizational learning theory, this study explores whether environmental pressures from different stakeholders influence green innovation differently and how this is further mediated by organizational learning. From a sample of 259 Chinese manufacturing firms, we find that consumer pressure has a greater positive effect on green product innovation than regulation pressure,…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 31.86
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 111
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2Topics & keywords
- Green innovation
- Business
- Stakeholder
- Product innovation
- Stakeholder theory
- Organizational learning
- Linkage (software)
- Product (mathematics)
- Industry, innovation and infrastructure