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Institutional pressure, knowledge acquisition and a firm's environmental innovation
Author(s) -
Liao Zhongju
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
business strategy and the environment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.123
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1099-0836
pISSN - 0964-4733
DOI - 10.1002/bse.2036
Subject(s) - normative , government (linguistics) , business , structural equation modeling , institutional theory , resource (disambiguation) , industrial organization , sample (material) , knowledge management , cognition , knowledge acquisition , marketing , economics , psychology , management , political science , computer science , computer network , philosophy , linguistics , chemistry , chromatography , machine learning , neuroscience , law
Based on institution theory, resource‐based theory and innovation theory, this study proposes a framework to investigate how institutional pressure affects environmental innovation through the mediating role of knowledge acquisition. In total, 263 firms in the Chinese manufacturing industry were selected as the research sample, and a structural equation model was used to examine the mediating role of knowledge acquisition between regulative pressure, normative pressure, cognitive pressure and the firm's environmental innovation. The results showed that regulative pressure and normative pressure had positive effects on the firm's environmental innovation, whereas the effect of cognitive pressure was not significant. In addition, knowledge acquisition positively promoted environmental innovation, and played a mediating role between regulative pressure, normative pressure and environmental innovation. Finally, this paper provides suggestions for government policy‐makers and managers to promote environmental innovation.