Li Fanbo, Zhang Hongfeng, Weng Linlu, Yan Haoqun
School of Social Sciences, Tsing Hua University, China.
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Macao Polytechnic University, China.
Heliyon. 2024 Apr 20;10(9):e29889. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e29889. eCollection 2024 May 15.
The escalating environmental challenges have compelled corporations to embark on green innovation initiatives, establishing this as a pivotal strategy for attaining economic sustainability. Yet, there remains a lack of consensus within the scholarly community regarding the precursors and outcomes of green innovation. This research leverages Giddens' structuration theory and employs meta-analytical methods to elucidate the determinants and effects of corporate green innovation. Initially, the study synthesizes 288 effect sizes from 161 distinct scholarly articles, spanning from 2012 to early 2023, guided by the structuration framework. This comprehensive analysis corroborates the influence of several structuration theory antecedents on green innovation, thereby offering fresh empirical backing for the theory. Subsequently, it scrutinizes the link between green innovation and its impacts, evaluated through economic and environmental performance lenses. Furthermore, the research contrasts the meta-analytical findings across large-scale and smaller enterprises, underscoring notable disparities in the dynamics of green innovation across different organizational contexts. This inquiry not only reaffirms the theoretical constructs of structuration theory, such as spatialization, subjectification, and structuration, but also integrates these notions with quantifiable variable models. The paper posits that structuration theory could underpin a theoretical framework for dissecting the influential variables associated with green innovation, thereby fostering further academic investigation into corporate environmental innovation.
日益严峻的环境挑战迫使企业开展绿色创新举措，将其确立为实现经济可持续性的关键战略。然而，学术界对于绿色创新的前因后果仍缺乏共识。本研究利用吉登斯的结构化理论并采用元分析方法，以阐明企业绿色创新的决定因素和影响。首先，该研究在结构化框架的指导下，综合了2012年至2023年初161篇不同学术文章中的288个效应量。这一全面分析证实了结构化理论的几个前提对绿色创新的影响，从而为该理论提供了新的实证支持。随后，研究通过经济和环境绩效视角审视绿色创新与其影响之间的联系。此外，该研究对比了大型企业和小型企业的元分析结果，强调了不同组织背景下绿色创新动态的显著差异。这项探究不仅重申了结构化理论的理论构建，如空间化、主体化和结构化，还将这些概念与可量化变量模型相结合。本文认为，结构化理论可为剖析与绿色创新相关的影响变量提供理论框架，从而促进对企业环境创新的进一步学术研究。
