Green Innovation and Business Sustainability: New Evidence from Energy Intensive Industry in China.

Autor: Li L; School of Business, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China.; Research Center for Prospering Jiangsu Province with Talents, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China.; Research Institute for Environmental and Health Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China., Msaad H; School of Business, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China., Sun H; School of Finance and Economics, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China., Tan MX; School of Business, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China., Lu Y; School of Management, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Korea., Lau AKW; School of Management, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Korea.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: International journal of environmental research and public health [Int J Environ Res Public Health] 2020 Oct 26; Vol. 17 (21). Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Oct 26.
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17217826
Abstrakt: Chinese manufacturing has recently undertaken the responsibility of energy conservation and emission reduction to address climate change. This research analyzes green innovation on business sustainability in the energy-intensive industry in China from the manager perspective, researched data from 229 Chinese managers via structural equation modeling (SEM). The results demonstrated that green innovation had three dimensions: green product innovation, recycling, and green publicity. Business sustainability also had three dimensions: financial performance, environmental performance, and social performance. It also shows that green innovation had a significant effect on business sustainability in energy-intensive industry. More specifically, we found that recycling has more impact on social performance when compared with green publicity. However, green publicity has a large effect on environmental performance; moreover, green product innovation has more impact on financial performance than green publicity. We also found that environmental performance has a positive effect on financial and social performance results. The alternative models were used to examine the second-order factors of green innovation and business sustainability to test the study's robustness and supported our findings. Thus, this study contributes to the field by helping managers to make decisions when dealing with sustainable environmental management. It provides new empirical evidence to support the development of a low-carbon circular economy and realization of a carbon-neutral goal by 2060 in China.
Competing Interests: This manuscript has not been published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. All authors have read the manuscript. The authors report no conflicts of interest. We believe that this study's findings are relevant to your journal's scope and will be of interest to its readership.
Databáze: MEDLINE