The Impact of Relationship Trust, Environmental Protection Awareness, and Regenerative Innovation on Environmental Performance: A Case Study of the Industrial Waste Industry

Abstract

In order to expand on the scope of research on partnership governance, this study explored the impact of relationship trust, stakeholder environmental awareness, and regenerative innovation on environmental performance. The study participants were primarily employees of legitimate public waste disposal and treatment facilities in the six special municipalities of Taiwan (including domestic and overseas facilities). The investigation was conducted via a questionnaire survey. A total of 1000 questionnaires were distributed and 550 were recovered, of which 539 were valid, indicating an effective recovery rate of 53.9%. Data analysis was conducted by structural equation modeling. The empirical results showed that relationship trust had a significant and positive impact on stakeholders’ environmental awareness, which, in turn, had a significant and positive impact on regenerative innovation. Relationship trust had no direct and significant impact on regenerative innovation. Hence, the impact of relationship trust on regenerative innovation is mediated by stakeholders’ environmental awareness. The results also showed that regenerative innovation had a significant and positive impact on environmental management performance, and no significant impact on environmental operational performance. Hence, the impact of regenerative innovation on environmental management performance is not mediated by environmental operational performance.

Local development and enviromental governance: Experienced from extractive industry in East Luwu, Indonesia

“…The concept of environmental governance tries to explain the ecological reality (Partelow et al, 2020), which in practice includes multi-level interactions, both local, national and international. These interactions generally involve the state, the private sector, and civil society, each of which plays a role in the formulation and implementation of environmental protection policies (Wang & Lei, 2021;Wu et al, 2019;Yeh, Tseng, Lee, & Yu, 2020). The success of environmental governance which includes rules, policy practices, and institutional patterns is needed as a solution to environmental problems and to shape the interaction between humans and the environment.…”

Does Trust Affect Antecedents of Inter-Organizational Governance Mechanisms and Elicit Successful Collaboration via Innovation? An Empirical Study from a Market-Oriented Economy in Vietnam

“…In the study by Ali et al [16], who pointed out that SET emphasizes the importance of trust, communication [24], and cultural adaptation, it significantly improved international joint ventures' performance by measuring the parent firms' satisfaction, which it based on the overall performance, profitability, market share, and achieving their mutual goals that set high standards for international joint ventures. The SET and TCT enhance our understanding of the impact of inter-organizational trust, IGMs, and innovation function in driving SIC: TCT focuses on the structural design of SIC and emphasizes the importance of inter-organizational commitment [25,26], co-ordination mechanisms [14,19,27], frequency of interaction [14,28], and effective structural mechanisms for IGMs, whereas SET focuses on the characteristics within the ongoing relationships between partners and emphasizes the importance of inter-organizational trust [14,16,23], communication [14,16,23,26] and innovation [6,12,15,29] as effective social mechanisms of collaboration management. Rarely, the studies combined two theories to investigate the underlying management mechanisms; these theories can promote SIC in tourism firms.…”

“…This study needs to be conducted because of the lack of research on the phenomenon of innovation and SIC in tourist firms in the context of Vietnam; this research identifies the influence of inter-organizational trust, IGMs, and innovation in understanding the behavior of tourist firms and their suppliers based on the elements that drive the success of inter-organizational collaboration. The second contribution is that our study fills a gap present in previous studies by exploring the relationship between factors of IGMs and SIC via innovation, which was not examined in previous studies [14][15][16][17][18][19]. Finally, SIC is the main solution used to improve and solve the issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic that affected the tourism industry in Vietnam; based on the results of this study, managers in the tourism sector can change their activities and build new strategies to develop tourism.…”

“…The results showed that the hybrid relational context has a positive correlation with capabilities and methods and leads to efficiency in inter-organizational cost management; a weak point is that this study did not explore the indirect influences among these factors. Moreover, Yeh et al [15] suggested that inter-organizational trust did not have a direct or significant impact on regenerative innovation and failed to predict the relationship between trust and regenerative innovation; however, they found a positive impact of relationship trust on regenerative innovation through the mediation of stakeholders' environmental awareness factors.…”

Improvement Path for Resource-Constrained Cities Identified Using an Environmental Co-Governance Assessment Framework Based on BWM-mV Model

“…The model is based on trust and is goal oriented, allowing stakeholders to conveniently, voluntarily, and proactively provide corrective information and participate in environmental governance. Through the pursuit of common interests, it also achieves environmental protection [ 60 , 61 , 62 ]. Accordingly, the environmental governance framework developed in this study is based on three dimensions, namely the correctness and fluidity of public information ( D 1 ), effectiveness of and engagement in environmental co-governance actions ( D 2 ), and the effect and binding force of environmental governance mechanisms ( D 3 ).…”