Exploring the influence of knowledge management process on corporate sustainable performance through green innovation
Journal of Knowledge Management
ISSN: 1367-3270
Article publication date: 20 August 2020
Issue publication date: 17 November 2020
Abstract
Purpose
Enhancing green innovation for corporate sustainability is one of the recent issues globally. Knowledge management has been determined as a core factor that hamstrings green innovation. The existing literature was limited to expose the importance of the knowledge management process for corporate sustainable performance. Thus, this paper aims to examine the role of the knowledge management process for corporate sustainable performance with the integration of green innovation and organizational agility following the resource-based view theory.
Design/methodology/approach
Cross-sectional design was used in this study. Data were gathered through convenience sampling from 475 respondents of multinational manufacturing corporations of Pakistan, analyzed by using structural equation modeling.
Findings
This study revealed that the knowledge management process and its all constructs (acquisition, dissemination and application) lead toward green innovation; further, green innovation influences corporate sustainable performance and its all constructs (environment, economic and social). Green innovation partially mediates the association between the knowledge management process and corporate sustainable performance. Besides, organizational agility has a positive effect on green innovation and corporate sustainable performance but was not found moderating these relations. The study educates that organizations investing in innovative technologies and adopting greener strategies are not only adequate for achieving sustainable performance, soft issues such as knowledge management and organizational agility but also important factors in the current knowledge base economy.
Originality/value
This study is an attempt to examine the previously undiscovered multi-dimensional relationships among the knowledge management process, green innovation, organizational agility and corporate sustainable performance. The presence of a positive correlation among these constructs was observed, proving the conceptual framework for this study.
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Acknowledgements
This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Project (71974028), University Innovative Talent Program of Liaoning Province (WR2016004) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (DUT18RC(3)034).
Corrigendum: It has come to the attention of the publisher that the article Shahzad, M., Qu, Y., Zafar, A.U., Rehman, S.U. and Islam, T. (2020), “Exploring the influence of knowledge management process on corporate sustainable performance through green innovation”, Journal of Knowledge Management, contained errors in Figure 2 and Table 5. These errors were introduced in the production process and have now been corrected online.
Citation
Shahzad, M., Qu, Y., Zafar, A.U., Rehman, S.U. and Islam, T. (2020), "Exploring the influence of knowledge management process on corporate sustainable performance through green innovation", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 24 No. 9, pp. 2079-2106. https://doi.org/10.1108/JKM-11-2019-0624
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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