How Eco-innovation Determinants and Eco-innovation Strategy Influences Sustainability Performance of SMEs? Mediating Role of Eco-innovation Strategy

Aksu, Barıs; Akman, Gulsen

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“…SMEs cannot cope with the R&D expenditure for new product due to lack of information about the financial facilities for the innovation process (Calabrese et al, 2005). Prior empirical findings demonstrate the significant association between GI practices and SMEs' development (Ebrahimi & Mirbargkar, 2017;Meidute-Kavaliauskiene et al, 2021) and sustainable or environmental performance (Tepe Küçükoğlu & Pınar, 2015;Zailani et al, 2015;Huang & Li, 2017;Meidute-Kavaliauskiene et al, 2021;Aksu & Akman, 2023). Owners and/or senior managers of SMEs in middle-income economies are required to substantially emphasize on GI adoption to perform and survive in highly dynamic markets (Jalali et al, 2022) with relatively high uncertainty.…”

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“…In particular, some recent studies have investigated GI adoption or performance of SMEs in middle-income economies including Bangladesh (Hasan & Rahman, 2023), Colombia (Bedoya-Villa et al, 2023), Côte d'Ivoire (Fulgence et al, 2023), Egypt (Aboelmaged andHashem, 2019), Indonesia (Tjahjadi et al, 2020), Malaysia (Singh et al, 2019), Mexico (Valdez-Juárez & Castillo-Vergara, 2021), Pakistan (Ahmad et al, 2024;Awan et al, 2021;Fahad et al, 2022;Yousaf, 2021;Zahoor et al, 2022). However, only few studies concentrated on GI process of Turkish (Aksu & Akman, 2023;Şengüllendi et al, 2023) and Iranian (Ebrahimi et al, 2017;Jahanshahi et al, 2020;Jalali et al, 2022) SMEs. Flatten et al (2011) suggest that samples containing firms from different national backgrounds would provide fruitful information in future research.…”

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Green Innovation Adoption in Turkish and Iranian SMEs: The Effect of Dynamic Capabilities and the Mediating Role of Absorptive Capacity

Çeli̇k,

Yildiz,

Aykanat

et al. 2024

J Knowl Econ

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Green innovation (GI) adoption of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) especially in middle-income economies plays a significant role to reduce negative impacts of environmental issues and to gain competitive advantage. The main objective of the present paper is to examine the mediating role of absorptive capacity (ACAP) on the relationship between dynamic capabilities (DC) and GI adoption in the context of Turkish and Iranian SMEs, two middle-income economies. For this purpose, a well-established online questionnaire is administered to 296 top executives of Turkish and Iranian SMEs operating in energy industry, a highly dynamic market. Using Hayes Process Macro Model, the results of this paper reveal that ACAP has a significant effect on GI adoption of Iranian SMEs but this effect of ACAP is insignificant in terms of Turkish SMEs. The empirical evidence obtained from the present paper also puts forward that DC positively influnce GI adoption in Turkish SMEs, however, the corresponding relationship is not significant for Iranian counterparts. For both middle-income economies, ACAP has a statistically significant mediating role on the relationship between DC and GI adoption of SMEs. Strategic alliances engagement and governmental incentives on GI investments are recommended to overcome certain barriers of SMEs including resource shortages and to improve ACAP and DC that enhance GI adoption of Turkish and Iranian SMEs in the future. As far as is known, this is the first study that compares possible antecedents of SMEs’ GI adoption in two middle-income economies.

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Green Innovation Adoption in Turkish and Iranian SMEs: The Effect of Dynamic Capabilities and the Mediating Role of Absorptive Capacity

Çeli̇k,

Yildiz,

Aykanat

et al. 2024

J Knowl Econ

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Key elements for achieving high impact and their relationship to the SDGs: Analysis of BCorp-certified companies in the primary sector

Vicente-Pascual,

Paradinas Márquez,

González-Rodrigo

2024

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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A Comprehensive Analysis of Role of Eco-Innovation in Linking Strategic Green Marketing and Service Innovation to Sustainable Products

Kouser,

Zahra,

Memon

et al. 2024

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Purpose: This research seeks to establish whether strategic green marketing, service innovation and eco-innovation can be used in the improvement of sustainable products development and usage. The research aims at responding to the challenges such as climate change, scarcity of resources and pollution of the environment while satisfying the customer’s need for environmentally sustainable products and services. Design/Methodology/Approach: Quantitative research design was used whereby questionnaires with close ended questions were used with 223 participants from different organizations. The questionnaires addressed the issue of green marketing and the aspect of services with innovation. To test the research hypothesis and examine the strategic green marketing’s impact on service innovation, eco-innovation, and sustainable product development, multiple regression and mediation analysis were employed. Findings: The outcomes show that the effects of strategic green marketing and service innovation on the creation of sustainable products when facilitated by eco-innovation are significant. Green marketing, backed by true green innovations, improves customers’ confidence. Implications/Originality/Value: This paper provides suggestions to the managers, the policymakers, and the industry players regarding the establishment of sustainable, credible, and environmentally friendly business strategies. Thus, the analysis of these notions and the demonstration of the interconnections between them will help to enhance the development of sustainable business and the transition to a more sustainable economy.

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How Eco-innovation Determinants and Eco-innovation Strategy Influences Sustainability Performance of SMEs? Mediating Role of Eco-innovation Strategy

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Green Innovation Adoption in Turkish and Iranian SMEs: The Effect of Dynamic Capabilities and the Mediating Role of Absorptive Capacity

Green Innovation Adoption in Turkish and Iranian SMEs: The Effect of Dynamic Capabilities and the Mediating Role of Absorptive Capacity

Key elements for achieving high impact and their relationship to the SDGs: Analysis of BCorp-certified companies in the primary sector

A Comprehensive Analysis of Role of Eco-Innovation in Linking Strategic Green Marketing and Service Innovation to Sustainable Products

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