How to convert green supply chain integration efforts into green innovation

A perspective of knowledge‐based view

Bibliographic Data

ID12308211
AuthorsTing Kong (0000-0001-9230-8632, Business School University of Shanghai for Science & Technology Shanghai China), Taiwen Feng (0000-0002-1620-7431, School of Economics and Management Harbin Institute of Technology Weihai China, corresponding author), Yufei Huang (0000-0002-1903-0838, Trinity Business School Trinity College Dublin Dublin Ireland), Junya Cai (School of Economic and Management Xi'an University of Technology Xi'an China)
Year2020
Volume28
Issue5
Pages1106-1121
Publication date2020-04-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSustainable Development (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0968-0802 • E-ISSN: 1099-1719
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/sd.2062
OpenAlexW3020233114
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited69

Although the importance of green supply chain integration (GSCI) in facilitating green innovation has been recognized, most existing literature constructs a direct link for the GSCI‐green innovation relationship. How firms convert their GSCI efforts into green innovation is still unclear. By collapsing GSCI into three dimensions (i.e., green supplier integration, green internal integration, and green customer integration), this study explores an indirect GSCI‐green innovation link in which knowledge exchange and knowledge combination are deemed as mediators. We employ survey data from 237 Chinese manufacturers and structural equation modeling techniques to test research hypotheses. Our findings support the major argument that the impact of GSCI on green innovation is indirect. Specifically, green internal integration impacts green product and process innovation via both knowledge exchange and knowledge combination; while green supplier integration affects green product and process innovation indirectly only via knowledge combination and green customers integration affects green product and process innovation indirectly only via knowledge exchange. This study advances our understanding on the GSCI‐green innovation relationship

Business · Domain knowledge · Green innovation · Industrial organization · Knowledge integration · Knowledge management · Process (computing · Process management · Product (mathematics · Product innovation · Structural equation modeling · Supply chain · Computer Science · Environmental Sustainability in Business · Quality and Supply Management · Sustainable Supply Chain Management · Marketing

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