Many or trusted partners for eco-innovation? The influence of breadth and depth of firms' knowledge network in the food sector

Moreno, Ángela González; Triguero, Ángela; Sáez‐Martínez, Francisco J.

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2019.06.011

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“…As the descriptive analysis highlights, this group of companies not only regularly performs environmental audits and requests environmental consulting, but it also has a higher number of staff allocated to control the quality of goods and the production process. This description confirms the conclusion reached by González-Moreno et al [115] regarding the need to create intense relationships with stakeholders in order to develop a fluent EI process in the food sector. Also, these findings are in line with other works that underscore the importance of relationships with pressure groups in the development of EI [28,65,116,117].…”

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“…As Arranz et al [120] states, the lack of EI development in firms can be caused by the perception of high costs, the need for financing and the lack of environmental knowledge. In this line, implementing policies that promote financial incentives as well as non-financial, such as seeking environmental partners, is a key factor to achieve cleaner production [115,[120][121][122]. In accordance with the findings of Ghisetti and Pontoni [123], regulatory stringency has positive, significant effects on EI, and policy-makers need to introduce regulatory-standards in order to further promote sustainable transition.…”

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Multidimensional Assessment of Eco-Innovation Implementation: Evidence from Spanish Agri-Food Sector

García-Granero

Piedra‐Muñoz

Gómez

2020

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Understanding eco-innovation is an essential endeavor to achieve global sustainable development. In this sense, further research on implementation is needed to expand knowledge beyond current boundaries. The aim of this paper is to contribute to this debate by conducting an original multidimensional analysis using Spanish agri-food sector data. The empirical methodology applies a combination of descriptive statistics, cluster analysis and the chi-squared test. Two groups of well-differentiated eco-innovative firms are identified, those with high and low eco-innovation implementation levels. Quality certifications, environmental consulting and cooperation with stakeholders are the variables that contribute most to distinguishing these two groups. The results also reveal that operating income volume, number of employees and commercialization volume are key factors to become more eco-innovative. In this sense, larger firms are found to have a higher level of eco-innovation implementation than small- and medium-sized enterprises. The main contributions of this work are fourfold. Firstly, it presents a comprehensive framework of eco-innovation implementation in its four dimensions (product, process, organizational and marketing). Secondly, it fills existing gaps in the literature by analyzing green organizational and marketing eco-practices. Thirdly, it expands the sectorial scope of eco-innovation research primarily focused on high-tech sectors. Finally, this study makes it possible to design certain policies for public and private decision makers.

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Multidimensional Assessment of Eco-Innovation Implementation: Evidence from Spanish Agri-Food Sector

García-Granero

Piedra‐Muñoz

Gómez

2020

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“…The multi-purpose nature of green innovations that usually aim at increasing production efficiency, meeting environmental standards, etc., often requires knowledge that is frequently dispersed among different external knowledge sources (González-Moreno, Triguero, & Sáez-Martínez, 2019). Therefore, most firms do not have the necessary knowledge of all of these potential technologies to pursue ecoinnovation and need to involve external partners in their innovation projects (Prajogo, Tang, & Lai, 2014).…”

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Successful eco‐innovators: Exploring the association between open inbound knowledge strategies and the performance of eco‐innovative firms

2019

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The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the association between open inbound knowledge strategies and the performance of eco‐innovative firms in the food and beverage industry. We propose a mixed framework based on the eco‐innovation literature and the open innovation approach. We consider the characteristics in a traditional sector based upon a resource‐based perspective. Three types of firms are distinguished in terms of their sales growth in the Spanish food industry from the least to the most successful eco‐innovators. Using multinomial logistic regression models, it is shown that the diversity of collaborators (breadth of external sources of knowledge) and joint adoption of product and process eco‐innovations are positively associated with the probability of achieving high sales growth. Moreover, we find an inverted U‐shaped relationship between the breadth of the external search and firm performance, but only for the group of the most successful firms. Moreover, operational flexibility, knowledge‐based capabilities and company size are also positively related to the group of successful eco‐innovators.

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“…That is, calculative trust does not affect investments in relationships or confidential communication, but cognitive trust influences these constructs indirectly, through the mediation of affective trust [67]. Deeper interactions foster the development of eco-innovations as greater frequency and intensity generates trust and copes with both the complexity of the required knowledge and the need for it to reduce the initial cognitive distance between partners [68].…”

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Business Models in Water Supply Companies—Key Implications of Trust

Jabłoński

2020

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Currently, trust is one of the key factors that ensures the acceptable mechanisms of economic and social relationships. It is not only an element of correct communication, but also a factor in inter-organizational bonds and a source of social dialogue. Trust has become a factor in the creation of value, as well as a key component of the conceptualization and operationalization of business models. It has revealed many problems at the strategic level, in the water sector in particular. From this perspective, trust is a major factor of strategies, models, and business processes which are currently being built. New types of business models that emerge have also started to include trust as part of their configuration. This is the case in the construction and implementation of social business models. A social business model can be understood as a business model whose factors that stimulate development include social aspects expressed in balancing economic, environmental, and social issues with the involvement of communities and their dynamic communication focused on the selected attributes of business models that stimulate growth and that are conducive to achieving success, expressed by economic and/or social profit. The satisfaction of stakeholders with such a solution is another condition for embedding this solution in the sphere of the social economy. In this approach, trust, which stimulates the growth of social and economic value in the component structure of the social business model, becomes particularly important. The aim of the paper is to present the place and role of trust as a key component of social business models. The scope of the paper includes research into public water sector industry companies located in the Province of Silesia and their social business models, with a focus on defining the position of trust among other attributes of these business models. The authors put forward a hypothesis that trust is a crucial component of the social business models of water supply companies that operate at the intersection of the market and social economy. Trust also helps companies from the water supply sector achieve both social and economic effects. It also becomes a source of reverse market polarization, where the value of a social business model materializes to create social and environmental effects without detriment to the economic effects.

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Many or trusted partners for eco-innovation? The influence of breadth and depth of firms' knowledge network in the food sector

Cited by 112 publications

References 82 publications

Multidimensional Assessment of Eco-Innovation Implementation: Evidence from Spanish Agri-Food Sector

Multidimensional Assessment of Eco-Innovation Implementation: Evidence from Spanish Agri-Food Sector

Successful eco‐innovators: Exploring the association between open inbound knowledge strategies and the performance of eco‐innovative firms

Business Models in Water Supply Companies—Key Implications of Trust

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