TY - JOUR
T1 - Green intellectual capital and ambidextrous green innovation
T2 - The impact on environmental performance
AU - Asiaei, Kaveh
AU - O'Connor, Neale G
AU - Barani, Omid
AU - Joshi, Mahesh
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. Business Strategy and The Environment published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - This study relies on a unique synthesis of ambidexterity theory and the natural resource orchestration approach to investigate how green intellectual capital elements, namely green human, structural, and relational capital, along with ambidextrous green innovation, trigger a synergy in favor of environmental performance. In particular, this paper primarily aims to test the mediating role of ambidextrous green innovation in the relationship between green intellectual capital and environmental performance. Based on a survey of 105 Iranian public listed companies, the results indicate that green intellectual capital elements are not directly associated with environmental performance. Instead, they influence environmental performance only through the channel of ambidextrous green innovation as a mediating variable. This is the first study to simultaneously embed the resource orchestration theory in the green intellectual capital and ambidexterity literature. The findings of the current study offer new insights into the issue of how organizations gain maximum benefit from the orchestration of their various green assets and capabilities, including green intellectual capital and ambidextrous green innovation.
AB - This study relies on a unique synthesis of ambidexterity theory and the natural resource orchestration approach to investigate how green intellectual capital elements, namely green human, structural, and relational capital, along with ambidextrous green innovation, trigger a synergy in favor of environmental performance. In particular, this paper primarily aims to test the mediating role of ambidextrous green innovation in the relationship between green intellectual capital and environmental performance. Based on a survey of 105 Iranian public listed companies, the results indicate that green intellectual capital elements are not directly associated with environmental performance. Instead, they influence environmental performance only through the channel of ambidextrous green innovation as a mediating variable. This is the first study to simultaneously embed the resource orchestration theory in the green intellectual capital and ambidexterity literature. The findings of the current study offer new insights into the issue of how organizations gain maximum benefit from the orchestration of their various green assets and capabilities, including green intellectual capital and ambidextrous green innovation.
KW - ambidextrous green innovation
KW - environmental performance
KW - green intellectual capital
KW - Iran
KW - natural resource orchestration
KW - sustainable development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85130590882&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/bse.3136
DO - 10.1002/bse.3136
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85130590882
SN - 0964-4733
VL - 32
SP - 369
EP - 386
JO - Business Strategy and the Environment
JF - Business Strategy and the Environment
IS - 1
ER -