RT Article
T1 How Green Management Influences Product Innovation in China: The Role of Institutional Benefits
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 133
IS 3
SP 471
OP 485
A1 Shu, Chengli
A1 Zhou, Kevin Z.
A1 Xiao, Yazhen
A1 Gao, Shanxing
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785656724
AB Does being green facilitate product innovation? This study examines whether green management in firms operating in China fosters radical product innovation to a greater extent than it does incremental product innovation and investigates the underlying institutional mechanisms involved in the relationship between green management and product innovation. The findings show that green management is more likely to lead to radical product innovation than to incremental product innovation. Moreover, government support as a formal institutional benefit more strongly mediates the effect of green management on radical product innovation than its effect on incremental product innovation; whereas social legitimacy as an informal institutional benefit more strongly mediates the effect of green management on incremental product innovation than its effect on radical product innovation. These findings provide important implications for explaining how firms employ green management to facilitate product innovation.
K1 Social legitimacy
K1 Government support
K1 Incremental product innovation
K1 Radical product innovation
K1 Green management
DO 10.1007/s10551-014-2401-7