Influence of Environmental Management on Green Process Innovation: Comparison of Multiple Mediating Effects Based on Routine Replication
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Background and Hypotheses
2.1. Theoretical Background
2.2. The Impact of Environmental Management on Green Process Innovation
2.3. The Impact of Environmental Management on Routine Replication
2.4. The Impact of Routine Replication on Green Process Innovation
2.5. The Mediating Effects of Routine Replication
3. Research design
3.1. Sample and Data Collection
3.2. Variable Measurement
3.3. Method
4. Empirical Results and Discussion
4.1. Reliability and Validity
4.2. Correlation Analysis
4.3. Regression Analysis
4.4. Discussion
5. Conclusions and Implications
5.1. Conclusions
5.2. Implications
6. Future Research Directions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A
Informants | Sample firms | ||
Department | Ownership | ||
Environmental protection | 24% | State-owned | 39.5% |
Technical | 23.1% | Non-state-owned | 60.5% |
Others | 45.3% | Age | |
Position | No more than 5 years | 14.2% | |
Junior manager | 31.1% | 5 to 10 years | 28.9% |
Senior manager | 45.3% | More than 10 years | 56.9% |
Top manager | 23.6% | Industry | |
Work experience within the firm | Petrochemical | 3.6% | |
No more than 5 years | 34.2% | Machinery and equipment | 9.7% |
5 to 10 years | 21.8% | Pharmaceutical products | 16.4% |
More than 10 years | 44% | Clothing | 8.9% |
Electronics manufacturing | 6.2% | ||
Food and beverage | 23.1% | ||
Paper and printing | 5.7% | ||
Rubber products | 12.9% | ||
Others | 13.5% |
Appendix B
Please rate the level of your firm’s involvement in each of the following practices during last year. (1 = very low; 5 = very high) | ||
GPI | A1 The emission of hazardous substances is reduced in the production process. | Amores-Salvadó et al., 2014; Bossle et al., 2016; Ma et al., 2017 |
A2 The energy efficiency is increased in the production process. | ||
A3 The material efficiency is increased in the production process. | ||
Please rate the level of your firm's involvement in each of the following practices during the past 3 years. (1 = very low; 5 = very high) | ||
EM | B1 I'm not sure which department is responsible for the environmental management of our company. (Reverse) | Kolk and Mauser, 2001; Daddit et al., 2016 |
B2 Firm leaders encourage to consider the environmental sustainability and green values as a shared vision for the organization. | ||
B3 Our company has hardly carried out relevant employees trainings in view of environmental problems. (Reverse) | ||
B4 Firms have clear environmental goals. | ||
B5 Our company often publishes documents related to environmental management. (Deleted) | ||
B6 Our company regularly evaluates the environmental performance. | ||
Routine Replication | C1 Firms have obtained clear and stable technical knowledge, market knowledge and cooperation specifications from their partners. | Winter and Szulanski, 2001; Pentland et al., 2012; Bresman, 2013; Gupta et al., 2015 |
C2 Firms tend to maintain existing partnerships and strengthen knowledge transfer channels. | ||
C3 Firms are able to adopt exploitative learning to implement and evaluate norms on time. | ||
C4 Firms have acquired complex and varied technical knowledge, market knowledge and cooperation specifications from their partners. | ||
C5 Firms tend to expand their scopes of cooperation to establish knowledge transfer channels. | ||
C6 Firms are able to adopt exploratory learning to receive and change organizational norms in a timely manner. |
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Variables | Mean | S. D. | EM | ZRR | HRR |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
EM | 3.783 | 0.895 | 1.000 | ||
ZRR | 3.989 | 0.679 | 0.261 ** | 1.000 | |
HRR | 3.722 | 0.633 | 0.410 ** | 0.449 ** | 1.000 |
GPI | 3.464 | 0.661 | 0.525 ** | 0.375 ** | 0.344 ** |
Variables | GPI | ZRR | HRR | GPI | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | Model 4 | Model 5 | Model 6 | Model 7 | Model 8 | |
SIZE | −0.089 | −0.054 | −0.087 | −0.097 | −0.056 | −0.093 | −0.097 * | −0.099 * |
AGE | −0.124 ** | −0.159 ** | −0.100 | −0.045 | −0.075 | −0.021 | −0.117 * | −0.096 * |
PRO | −0.126 ** | −0.112 * | −0.116 ** | −0.075 | −0.111 * | −0.081 * | −0.115 * | −0.082 |
IND | 0.018 | 0.146 | 0.185 | −0.097 * | −0.107 * | −0.040 | 0.001 | −0.039 |
EM | 0.609 *** | 0.517 *** | 0.453 *** | 0.404 *** | 0.437 *** | 0.376 *** | ||
ZRR | 0.443 *** | 0.396 *** | ||||||
HRR | 0.392 *** | 0.379 *** | ||||||
INTER | 0.541 *** | |||||||
R2 | 0.409 | 0.391 | 0.359 | 0.407 | 0.345 | 0.505 | 0.490 | 0.592 |
Adjusted R2 | 0.403 | 0.384 | 0.352 | 0.400 | 0.335 | 0.497 | 0.472 | 0.583 |
F | 60.086 | 55.671 | 48.574 | 59.389 | 54.682 | 66.010 | 64.994 | 70.588 |
*** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** |
Coefficient | Estimated Value | Standard Error | 95% Confidence Interval | p | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lower | Upper | ||||
EM→ZRR (a1) | 0.356 | 0.081 | 0.123 | 0.589 | 0.004 |
EM→HRR (a2) | 0.311 | 0.129 | 0.060 | 0.557 | 0.016 |
EM→INTER (a3) | 0.470 | 0.078 | 0.298 | 0.642 | 0.028 |
ZRR→GPI (b1) | 0.345 | 0.059 | 0.161 | 0.529 | 0.000 |
HRR→GPI (b2) | 0.270 | 0.031 | 0.178 | 0.362 | 0.003 |
INTER→GPI (b3) | 0.387 | 0.091 | 0.137 | 0.636 | 0.006 |
EM→ZRR→GPI (a1 × b1) | 0.123 | 0.021 | 0.067 | 0.179 | 0.008 |
EM→HRR→GPI (a2 × b2) | 0.084 | 0.017 | 0.049 | 0.119 | 0.036 |
EM→INTER→GPI (a3 × b3) | 0.182 | 0.052 | 0.051 | 0.313 | 0.012 |
a2 × b2 − a1 × b1 | −0.039 | 0.022 | −0.009 | 0.087 | 0.031 |
a3 × b3 − a1 × b1 | 0.059 | 0.021 | 0.032 | 0.115 | 0.008 |
a3 × b3 − a2 × b2 | 0.098 | 0.028 | 0.025 | 0.171 | 0.009 |
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Ma, Y.; Zhang, Q.; Yin, Q. Influence of Environmental Management on Green Process Innovation: Comparison of Multiple Mediating Effects Based on Routine Replication. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 4346. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16224346
Ma Y, Zhang Q, Yin Q. Influence of Environmental Management on Green Process Innovation: Comparison of Multiple Mediating Effects Based on Routine Replication. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16(22):4346. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16224346
Chicago/Turabian StyleMa, Yuan, Qiang Zhang, and Qiyue Yin. 2019. "Influence of Environmental Management on Green Process Innovation: Comparison of Multiple Mediating Effects Based on Routine Replication" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 22: 4346. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16224346