Green innovation to respond to environmental regulation: How external knowledge adoption and green absorptive capacity matter?
Northwestern Polytechnical University · Harbin Institute of Technology · +2 more institutions
Abstract
Abstract Although environmental regulations have been considered as important forces of conducting green innovation, how and under what conditions they affect green innovation are still unclear. Drawing from institutional theory, this study used survey data from 237 manufacturing firms in China to investigate how two dimensions of environmental regulations (i.e., command and control regulation and market‐based regulation) affect green product innovation and green process innovation. Further, this article examined the mediating role of external knowledge adoption and the moderating role of green absorptive capacity. Our results indicate that both command and control regulation and market‐based regulation have…
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5Topics & keywords
- Absorptive capacity
- Business
- Industrial organization
- Green innovation
- Control (management)
- Environmental regulation
- Affect (linguistics)
- Product innovation
- Industry, innovation and infrastructure