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Title Green, Green, It's Green: A Triad Model of Technology, Culture, and Innovation for Corporate Sustainability
ID_Doc 30145
Authors Yang, ZJ; Sun, J; Zhang, YL; Wang, Y
Title Green, Green, It's Green: A Triad Model of Technology, Culture, and Innovation for Corporate Sustainability
Year 2017
Published Sustainability, 9, 8
DOI 10.3390/su9081369
Abstract In the global trend of sustainable development and tightening legal environment, enterprises need to integrate their various resources to promote green innovation and organizational performances. This study conceptualizes green information system (IS) infrastructure as the hardware resource and green culture as the software resource. Based on the resource-alignment perspective, it examines their direct effects on green innovation effectiveness as well as indirect effects through the mediation of IS-culture fit, innovation-IS fit and innovation-culture fit. Survey observations were collected from over 300 organizations in China, the largest emerging economy under tremendous ecological and developmental pressures. The results suggest that green IS infrastructure and green culture has positive direct impacts on green innovation effectiveness. Meanwhile, innovation-IS fit, innovation-culture fit and IS-culture fit serve as positive, negative and non-significant mediators, respectively. In addition, a multi-group analysis reveals that organization size moderates the mediating rather than direct relationships, and small/medium and large enterprises face their own pros and cons in green innovation. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.
Author Keywords corporate sustainability; strategic endeavor; green information systems; green innovation; green culture; perceived alignment; resource-based view; triadic relationships; organizational performances
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED); Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:000408861800084
WoS Category Green & Sustainable Science & Technology; Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies
Research Area Science & Technology - Other Topics; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
PDF https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/8/1369/pdf?version=1502087973
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