Stakeholder theory

Chromatography

Green innovation

Economics

Discretion

Computer science

Business

Corporate governance

Management

Political science

Environmental resource management

Industrial organization

Chemistry

Sample (material)

Finance

Knowledge management

Stakeholder

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management

Based on stakeholder and upper‐echelon theories and following the logic of “leadership‐behavior‐performance,” this study constructs a model to investigate the relationships between responsible leadership, managerial discretion, environmental innovation, and firm's environmental performance. This study analyzed a sample of survey responses from 208 manufacturing firms. The results show that the three dimensions of responsible leadership (relationship building, relational governance, and sharing orientation) have a positive effect on incremental environmental innovation; relational governance and sharing orientation have a positive effect on radical environmental innovation; both incremental and radical environmental innovation have a positive effect on a firm's environmental performance; and finally, managerial discretion plays a significant and positive moderating role in the relationships between sharing orientation and incremental and radical environmental innovation, and between relational governance and radical environmental innovation.

The influence of responsible leadership on environmental innovation and environmental performance: The moderating role of managerial discretion