Green innovation and competitive advantages in a furniture industrial cluster: A survey and structural model

Sellitto, Miguel Afonso; Camfield, Clarissa Gracioli; Buzuku, Shqipe

doi:10.1016/j.spc.2020.04.007

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“…They also added that to attain sustainability firms are to exert sufficient effort for establishing green corporate image. Green corporate image is considered as one the crucial catalyst for attaining green competitive advantage (Sellitto, Camfield, & Buzuku, 2020). Green corporate image together with innovation would provide substantial green competitive advantage to the firms (Fernando, Jabbour, & Wah, 2019).…”

Section: Green Corporate Imagementioning

confidence: 99%

Examining the role of environmental corporate social responsibility in building green corporate image and green competitive advantage

Alam

Islam

2021

Int J Corporate Soc Responsibility

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Green concern is making a profound impact on building green competitive advantage (GCA) across the globe. Apparel sector of Bangladesh is at crossroads regarding sustainability of firms. Green initiatives are thus required for ensuring the survival of apparel sector. The current study attempts to examine the interplay among environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR) dimensions, green corporate image (GCI), and green competitive advantage of firms. To address the research topic, structural equation modeling approach has been adopted. Based on prior research findings, five hypotheses have been devised and finally evaluated by collecting data from 53 apparel firms enlisted with Dhaka Stock Exchange, Bangladesh. The study findings reveal that the ECSR dimensions have critical role to play over building GCI and GCA at the firm level. The study attempted to integrate ECSR, GCI, and GCA and contributes to the holistic understanding of the green anxieties of the business world. Understanding the critical role of ECSR, this study calls for proactive managerial actions regarding organizational sustainability.

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Section: Green Corporate Imagementioning

confidence: 99%

Examining the role of environmental corporate social responsibility in building green corporate image and green competitive advantage

Alam

Islam

2021

Int J Corporate Soc Responsibility

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“…With the World Wide Web becoming fully accessible to people in the 21st century, Sheehan (2001) calculates that the average rate of return of e-mail survey has reached 24 percent. Sellitto et al (2020) however stated that about a 20 percent response rate is satisfactory for an e-mail survey. In order to test the hypotheses with a sufficient sample, the Qualtrics based survey questionnaire link was distributed through the Wechat app to 10 local Wechat groups where each group had between 200 to 300 members (around 2500 in total) at that time of circulation.…”

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confidence: 99%

Sustainability concerns on consumers’ attitude towards short food supply chains: an empirical investigation

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While industrialized agro-food supply systems have gained tremendous success in recent decades, it has been increasingly criticized for its adverse environmental and social impact. Amongst this criticism, Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) have emerged as a promising sustainable alternative to the industrialized agri-food supply systems. In recent years there have been some attempts to explore the relationship between SFSCs and sustainability, but these are mostly theoretical discussions and lacks empirical validation. This study, therefore, attempts to provide empirical validation of the SFSCs and sustainability linkages. Additionally, from the theoretical perspective, our work extends the traditional triple bottom line constructs and explores two extra dimensions of sustainability in the food supply chain system, namely, governance and culture, thus exploring five dimensions of sustainability. Furthermore, while SFSCs have proven to improve farmers’ livelihoods and reconnect producers with consumers, little or no attention has been given to understand the consumers' attitudes towards the SFSC practices. Therefore, this study aims to explore the customers’ attitudes towards participating in SFSCs through the concept of a moral economy and personal relationship. Based on the 532 valid responses from Chinese consumers, our study shows that all five pillars of sustainability, moral economy and Chinese relationship have a positive influence on consumers’ participation in SFSCs. With its intuitive benefits, the economic pillar emerged as the most approved factor by the participants. Interestingly our findings show that the social aspect is less prominent than others, which is contrary to existing studies conducted in developed countries.

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“…These components reduce negative environmental impacts, resulting in more efficient raw materials and a lesser waste and byproduct generation. Moreover, the production process becomes a process in which analytical methods are used and automatically controlled [26].…”

Section: Green Innovationmentioning

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Green Innovation in Environmental Complexity: The Implication of Open Innovation

Meidutė‐Kavaliauskienė

Çiğdem

Vasiliauskas

et al. 2021

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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People have become more conscientious about the environment in recent years. Increasing environmental awareness drives customers to be more selective about environmentally friendly products and forces governments to adopt environmentally friendly policies. As a result, competition in the market becomes more challenging. Thus, companies cannot remain indifferent to adopting environmentally friendly strategies to be sustainable. In this regard, this study investigates the effect of green innovation on firm performance. We also examined whether the environmental uncertainty moderates the investigated effect. For this purpose, first, data were collected from the first 1000 exporting firms declared in 2019 by the Turkey Exporters Assembly using a survey method. Secondly, factor analyses and regression analyses were performed with the data set obtained from 136 companies. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that green innovation increases both environmental performance and economic performance. It also was found that green innovation positively affects firm performance, but environmental uncertainty reduces this effect. According to these results, it was offered that firms should increase their green innovation activities to achieve better outputs and seek ways to reduce environmental uncertainty to keep these outputs at the maximum level. Finally, the research includes some considerations on the positive implications and potential of green innovation in an open-innovation context.

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Green innovation and competitive advantages in a furniture industrial cluster: A survey and structural model

Cited by 146 publications

References 73 publications

Examining the role of environmental corporate social responsibility in building green corporate image and green competitive advantage

Examining the role of environmental corporate social responsibility in building green corporate image and green competitive advantage

Sustainability concerns on consumers’ attitude towards short food supply chains: an empirical investigation

Green Innovation in Environmental Complexity: The Implication of Open Innovation

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