The Determinants of Green Radical and Incremental Innovation Performance: Green Shared Vision, Green Absorptive Capacity, and Green Organizational Ambidexterity

Yu-Shan Chen, Ching-Hsun Chang and Yu-Hsien Lin
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Yu-Shan Chen: Department of Business Administration, National Taipei University, 151, University Rd., San Shia, New Taipei City 237, Taiwan
Ching-Hsun Chang: Department of Business Administration, Tamkang University, 151, Yingzhuan Road, Tamsui, New Taipei City 25137, Taiwan
Yu-Hsien Lin: Department of Business Administration, National Taipei University, 151, University Rd., San Shia, New Taipei City 237, Taiwan

Sustainability, 2014, vol. 6, issue 11, 1-20

Abstract: This study proposes a new concept, green organisational ambidexterity, that integrates green exploration learning and green exploitation learning simultaneously. Besides, this study argues that the antecedents of green organisational ambidexterity are green shared vision and green absorptive capacity and its consequents are green radical innovation performance and green incremental innovation performance. The results demonstrate that green exploration learning partially mediates the positive relationships between green radical innovation performance and its two antecedents—green shared vision and green absorptive capacity. In addition, this study indicates that green exploitation learning partially mediates the positive relationships between green incremental innovation performance and its two antecedents—green shared vision and green absorptive capacity. Hence, firms have to increase their green shared vision, green absorptive capacity, and green organisational ambidexterity to raise their green radical innovation performance and green incremental innovation performance.

Keywords: green radical innovation; green incremental innovation; green shared vision; green absorptive capacity; green organizational ambidexterity; green exploration learning; green exploitation learning; green innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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