Finance

Business

Extant taxon

Sample (material)

Human resource management

Green innovation

Computer network

Economic growth

Knowledge management

Evolutionary biology

Biology

Machine learning

Economics

Chemistry

Resource (disambiguation)

Human capital

Intellectual capital

Computer science

Industrial organization

Chromatography

Structural equation modeling

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Extant literature suggests that green intellectual capital (GIC), green human resource management (GHRM), and green innovation (GI) impacts the environmental performance of firms. In this paper, we argue that the relationship between GIC, GHRM, GI and environmental performance is more complex than previously suggested. We propose that neither GIC nor GHRM are directly related to environmental performance. We argue instead that GI mediates the relationships between GIC, GHRM, and environmental performance. Further, we suggest that environmental strategies are directly related to environmental performance, while also moderating the relationship between GI and environmental performance. We tested our proposed model on a sample of 244 large manufacturing firms. The results of a structural equation modeling analysis provide support for most of our hypotheses.

Analyzing the relationship between green innovation and environmental performance in large manufacturing firms