Environmental Innovation and Business Performance
While environmental innovation or eco-innovation has been recognized as one of key factors to achieve business performance, previous studies have primarily focused on product- and process-related ecoinnovation activities without properly addressing the organizational aspect of eco-innovation. Moreover, the effects of those three types of eco-innovation (product, process, organizational) were reviewed separately and their inter-relationships were not examined. This study takes an integrated approach to investigate interrelationships among these three types of eco-innovation and their impact on business performance. Based on a survey of 121 senior managers, we found that eco-organizational innovation has the strongest effect on business performance. Eco-product innovation mediates the effect of ecoprocess innovation, and both types of innovations act as a bridge carrying the positive impact of ecoorganizational innovation on business performance. In order to develop effective eco-innovation programs, it is necessary to have an integral view of all three types of eco-innovation with the recognition of their direct and indirect effects on business performance.
Eco-innovation business performance
Colin Cheng Chenlung Yang Chwen Sheu
College of Management, Yuan Ze University, Chungli, Taiwan, China epartment of Technology Management, Chung Hua University, HsinChu, Taiwan, China Department of Management, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA
国际会议
The Tenth International Conference on Information and Management Sciences(IMS)(第十届信息与管理科学国际会议)
拉萨
英文
192-198
2011-08-06（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）