School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, 13 Fayuan Street, Nangang District, Harbin 150001, China.
School of Management, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Xiasha District, Hangzhou, 310018, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 Feb 4;15(2):268. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15020268.
In response to the asking and requiring of stakeholders to be more environmentally responsible, firms must commit to green corporate social responsibility (CSR). Firms being green and responsible always can acquire intangible resources that are important for firm innovation. Given the scarcity of existing research addressing relevant issues in depth, this paper expands our understanding of green CSR by revealing its antecedent effects on firm innovation performance. We also include public visibility and firm transparency as contingency factors to explore the relationship between green CSR and firm innovation performance. Using data collected from publicly listed firms in China, we find that greater innovation performance is associated with an increase in firm green CSR, and the positive relationship between green CSR and innovation performance is moderated by public visibility and firm transparency. Based on the results, theoretical contributions and practical implications are outlined.
为了回应利益相关者对更环保的要求，企业必须致力于绿色企业社会责任（CSR）。企业的绿色和负责任的行为始终可以获得对企业创新很重要的无形资源。鉴于现有研究对相关问题的深入探讨还很稀缺，本文通过揭示绿色企业社会责任对企业创新绩效的前因效应，扩展了我们对绿色企业社会责任的理解。我们还将公众可见度和公司透明度作为权变因素纳入其中，以探索绿色企业社会责任与企业创新绩效之间的关系。我们使用从中国上市公司收集的数据发现，更高的创新绩效与企业绿色企业社会责任的增加相关，绿色企业社会责任与创新绩效之间的积极关系受到公众可见度和公司透明度的调节。基于这些结果，本文概述了理论贡献和实际意义。
