Does organisational capital influence environmental strategies? Evidence from environmental innovation
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Business Strategy and the Environment
Volume
30
Issue
8
First Page
4121
Last Page
4135
Publisher
Wiley
School
School of Business and Law
RAS ID
36226
Abstract
As a result of increasing consumer awareness and stakeholder demands about environmental management, firms face stricter challenges surrounding the impact of business operations on the environment. In this regards, environmental innovation is one of the important ways of acting in harmony with the environment. Thus, the purpose of this study is to examine the impact of organisational capital on environmental innovation measured as the process innovation and product innovation. Using environmental innovation data from ASSET4 for the US listed firms between 2002 and 2018, our empirical results reveal a significant positive association between organisational capital and both the process innovation and product innovation. Furthermore, the relationship is stronger in high-profitability and sensitive industries subsamples. These results are robust to additional control variables and endogeneity tests. This study, while endorsing the resource-based view (RBV), provides important implications for the top management teams that organisational capital could be an important channel through which managers can boost environmental innovation.
DOI
10.1002/bse.2860
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Nadeem, M., Bahadar, S., Zaman, R., & Farooq, M. B. (2021). Does organisational capital influence environmental strategies? Evidence from environmental innovation. Business Strategy and the Environment, 30(8), 4121-4135.
https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2860