Green product innovation and competitive advantage: an empirical study of chemical industrial plants in Jordanian qualified industrial zones

Al-Abdallah, Ghaith M.; Al-Salim, Majda I. Ayoub

doi:10.1108/bij-03-2020-0095

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“…Pacheco et al (2018) established a role of green absorptive capacity in green innovation performance. Green innovation further improves the competitiveness (Al-Abdallah and Al-Salim, 2021). Zhang et al (2020) supported that green absorptive capacity improves favourable outcome of market based regulation linked to external knowledge adoption and delivers eco-friendly innovation.…”

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Benchmarking absorptive capacity for sustainability: a study of Indian firms

Bhupendra¹,

Sangle

2021

BIJ

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PurposeThe paper aims to explore the attributes and systemic characteristics of absorptive capacity in sustainability oriented firms in India. Such understanding shall pave a way to integrate knowledge about societal stakeholders with technological and market knowledge. The study may help other firms to benchmark their business process considering sustainability aspects to integrate a broader set of stakeholders in decision making.Design/methodology/approachA questionnaire-based survey was conducted to gather responses from 689 managers of 60 firms belonging to various industry sectors. Absorptive capacity of firms based on result of factorial analysis, variances explained by factors and rank of attributes is presented.FindingsThe study provides a glimpse of variability in steps taken by firms to remain competitive in current and future markets. This study highlights the importance of benefits sharing among alliance partners, knowledge-management processes, social integration for tacit knowledge and exploration of new knowledge sources. Surveyed firms require improvements in employee's skill set up-gradation, exploitation of knowledge spread across different departments and suitable training systems to promote knowledge sharing behaviour.Research limitations/implicationsThe sample of study covers respondents mainly from Health, Safety and Environment/Sustainability/Clean Development Mechanism departments so leading to certain biasness in their perception.Practical implicationsThe study may lead organizations to transform business processes to integrate stakeholder's concerns and expectations.Social implicationsThe study may help organisations to develop important attributes of absorptive capacity for effective integration of stakeholders considering sustainability challenges.Originality/valueThis research article enhances understanding on common aspects of absorptive capacity, dynamic capability and sustainability strategies.

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Benchmarking absorptive capacity for sustainability: a study of Indian firms

Bhupendra¹,

Sangle

2021

BIJ

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“…Toward sustainability, many scholars stressed that green innovation is an excellent solution to help organizations gain two goals simultaneously, including ecological balance and economic profitability [3]. Besides, it can enhance the organization's position, brand value, and competitive advantage in the market [4,5]. Undoubtedly, research on the green innovation topic has witnessed a rapidly increasing trend in recent years [2].…”

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“…Nevertheless, the implementation struggles with various obstacles, which may impact the firms' efforts to reduce emissions and make green products. Moreover, Al-Abdallah and Al-Salim (2021) claimed that they must identify the barriers to green innovation implementation, aiming to help the enterprises to overcome them more easily [4]. The examples can be Gohoungodji et al, (2020) systematically reviewed previous studies and found that the automotive industry must overcome six major challenges [9].…”

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Assessing the Barriers of Green Innovation Implementation: Evidence from the Vietnamese Manufacturing Sector

Huang

Chen

et al. 2022

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Sustainability concerns are rising as an interesting topic in both academia and industry. Many scholars revealed that green innovation is an excellent solution to enable organizations to achieve various benefits, such as enhancing their reputation and competitive advantages. Thus, this is the first study in Vietnam to consider the barriers to implementing green innovation. The research aims to identify the obstacles to green innovation practices in the Vietnamese manufacturing sector. The interpretive structural modeling (ISM) approach has been conducted to provide the interactions among the green innovation implementation barriers. The authors ground this study to bridge the theoretical and practical for green innovation practices in the Vietnam situation. Based on the experts’ perspectives, they proposed that Vietnamese manufacturers must deal with thirteen essential barriers to green innovation adoption. Further, six interaction levels and the MICMAC analysis clarified cross-relationships among challenges by evaluating the driving and dependence power. Indeed, the empirical results emphasized that financial capability constraints and lack of government support are the most decisive challenges. In contrast, market competition and uncertainty concern is the easiest obstacle to address by the Vietnamese manufacturers. Therefore, this study has provided some insightful contributions for the top managers and other scholars to consider.

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“…Huang and Li, 2017) and its impact on both competitive advantages (e.g. Al-Abdallah and Al-Salim, 2021) and production processes (e.g. Awan et al, 2021).…”

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The role of motivations in the construction of patronage intention of innovative green products

Moraga

Vidal-Buitano

2022

ARLA

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PurposeThe purpose of this article is to analyze how autonomous and controlled motivations influence the formation of patronage intention (PI) of innovative green products. Additionally, the role of positive affect (PA) in these causal relationships is analyzed, as is the moderating role of social norms (SN).Design/methodology/approachData were collected through an online self-administered questionnaire. The paper reports the results of a quantitative study based on a sample of 338 people of 24 years old or older, with different levels of education and motivations in terms of acting in favor of the environment. To ensure the reliability and validity of the constructs, an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used. To test the proposed research model, the methodology of structural equations was used.FindingsThe results indicate that autonomous motivations (AMs) contribute positively to the formation of patronage intention toward innovative green products, while controlled motivations (CMs) influence negatively. Additionally, it was observed that PA fulfills a relative role in the formation of patronage intention and that SN act as moderators of these causal relationships.Practical implicationsThese findings serve as a base for companies to identify those segments of consumers that are motivated autonomously by care for the environment and thus to design effective strategies to achieve their patronage intention.Originality/valueConsidering the relevance of the consumption of green products, as well as how companies can achieve the patronage intention of the consumer, this study shows a high level of originality in the sense that it analyses the role of motivations and PA in the formation of patronage intention of green products, especially when these are perceived as innovative.

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Green product innovation and competitive advantage: an empirical study of chemical industrial plants in Jordanian qualified industrial zones

Cited by 22 publications

References 50 publications

Benchmarking absorptive capacity for sustainability: a study of Indian firms

Benchmarking absorptive capacity for sustainability: a study of Indian firms

Assessing the Barriers of Green Innovation Implementation: Evidence from the Vietnamese Manufacturing Sector

The role of motivations in the construction of patronage intention of innovative green products

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