Greening the Nexus Between Managerial Innovativeness and Innovation Performance of Manufacturing SMEs: The Mediating Role of Green Ambidexterity

IF 12.5 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

Business Strategy and The Environment Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI:10.1002/bse.4335

Enoch Adusei, Tilo Halaszovich, Leonhard Gebhardt

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Abstract

The current business environment increasingly requires firms to adopt sustainable innovation strategies to improve their performance. Drawing from the dynamic capability theory and supported by upper echelons perspectives, this study examines the synergistic relationship between green managerial innovativeness and green ambidexterity on green innovation performance among manufacturing small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana. This study employed a purposive sampling technique to obtain cross‐sectional survey data from 359 manufacturing SMEs. The structural equation modeling (SEM) analyses revealed that green managerial innovativeness positively affects both green innovation performance, and green exploitative–exploratory ambidexterity. In addition, the effect of green managerial innovativeness on green innovation performance is mediated by both exploitative and exploratory ambidexterity. This is one of the earliest studies to green the framework of managerial innovativeness, ambidexterity, and innovation performance concerning manufacturing SMEs in emerging markets, and thus, its findings contribute to establishing firms' competitive green strategy.

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绿色：制造业中小企业管理创新与创新绩效的关系：绿色双元性的中介作用

当前的商业环境越来越要求企业采用可持续的创新战略来提高他们的绩效。本研究以动态能力理论为基础，在上层视角的支持下，探讨了绿色管理创新和绿色双元性对加纳制造业中小企业绿色创新绩效的协同关系。本研究采用目的性抽样技术，对359家制造业中小企业进行了横断面调查。结构方程模型（SEM）分析表明，绿色管理创新对绿色创新绩效和绿色开发-探索双元性均有正向影响。此外，绿色管理创新对绿色创新绩效的影响是利用性和探索性双元性共同介导的。这是最早对新兴市场制造业中小企业管理创新、双元性和创新绩效的绿色框架进行研究的研究之一，因此，其研究结果有助于建立企业的竞争性绿色战略。

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22.50

自引率

19.40%

发文量

336

期刊介绍： Business Strategy and the Environment (BSE) is a leading academic journal focused on business strategies for improving the natural environment. It publishes peer-reviewed research on various topics such as systems and standards, environmental performance, disclosure, eco-innovation, corporate environmental management tools, organizations and management, supply chains, circular economy, governance, green finance, industry sectors, and responses to climate change and other contemporary environmental issues. The journal aims to provide original contributions that enhance the understanding of sustainability in business. Its target audience includes academics, practitioners, business managers, and consultants. However, BSE does not accept papers on corporate social responsibility (CSR), as this topic is covered by its sibling journal Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. The journal is indexed in several databases and collections such as ABI/INFORM Collection, Agricultural & Environmental Science Database, BIOBASE, Emerald Management Reviews, GeoArchive, Environment Index, GEOBASE, INSPEC, Technology Collection, and Web of Science.