Effects of environmental orientation on agricultural enterprises’ performance: mediation and moderation analyses

Xiu-e Zhang () and Xinyu Teng ()
Additional contact information
Xiu-e Zhang: Jilin University
Xinyu Teng: Jilin University

Asian Business & Management, 2023, vol. 22, issue 3, No 6, 955-977

Abstract: Abstract Contradictory findings on the relationship between environmental orientation and performance are reported in the existing literature. The omission of crucial mediating variables and boundary conditions may help explain these conflicting findings. Building on the natural resource-based view, this study explores how environmental orientation influences enterprises’ performance through the mediating effect of green production and the moderating effect of green training. Survey responses from 206 Chinese agricultural enterprise managers reveal that environmental orientation is positively associated with environmental and financial performance. Green production partially mediates the relationship between environmental orientation and environmental and financial performance. The positive effect of environmental orientation on green production is strengthened when green training is higher. Findings contribute to extant research on environmental orientation and enterprises’ performance as well as provide a basic framework to understand how an enterprise can achieve sustainable and healthy development through green production and green training.

Keywords: Environmental orientation; Green production; Green training; Environmental performance; Financial performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1057/s41291-022-00183-5 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:abaman:v:22:y:2023:i:3:d:10.1057_s41291-022-00183-5

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.palgrave.com/gp/journal/41291

DOI: 10.1057/s41291-022-00183-5

Access Statistics for this article

Asian Business & Management is currently edited by Fabian Jintae Froese

More articles in Asian Business & Management from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().