Green intellectual capital and environmental product innovation: the mediating role of green social capital

Although the importance of intellectual capital has already been highlighted in the management literature, few articles have focused on the importance of its green counterpart, green intellectual capital. Nowadays, when environmental concerns cannot be ignored by firms, it is therefore time to explo...

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Published in:Knowledge management research & practice 2014-08, Vol.12 (3), p.261-275
Main Authors: Delgado-Verde, Miriam, Amores-Salvadó, Javier, Martín-de Castro, Gregorio, Navas-López, José Emilio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Business and Management
Competition
Competitive advantage
Corporate image
Employee involvement
Endowment
Environmental management
Environmental policy
environmental product innovation
Environmental protection
green intellectual capital
green organizational capital
Green products
green social capital
Human capital
Innovations
Intangible assets
Intellectual capital
Knowledge
Knowledge Management
Literature reviews
Management
Operations Research/Decision Theory
Organization theory
Social capital
Studies
Sustainable development
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Summary:Although the importance of intellectual capital has already been highlighted in the management literature, few articles have focused on the importance of its green counterpart, green intellectual capital. Nowadays, when environmental concerns cannot be ignored by firms, it is therefore time to explore the role of green intellectual capital in environmental improvement. For that reason, our research aims to explore the relationships between green intellectual capital components and the environmental performance of the firms. In particular, we try to show the importance of green organizational and social capital in the development of environmental product innovations, which are vital to the development and implementation of environmental strategies since, as scholars have pointed out, they generate some of the greatest environmental impacts. The empirical results show that green organizational capital has an indirect impact on environmental product innovation through green social capital, meaning that the latter is a significant mediator of that relationship, and at the same time emphasizing that informal relationships play a key role in the improvement of the environmental performance of the firm and, more specifically, in the development of environmental product innovations.
ISSN:1477-8238
1477-8246
DOI:10.1057/kmrp.2014.1