Green process innovation and financial performance: The role of green social capital and customers’ tacit green needs

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jik.2022.100165
• Publication Date: 2022-02-04T00:05:41Z
• Authors: Xuemei Xie; Thu Thao Hoang; Qiwei Zhu
• Keywords: Green innovation; Tacit Knowledge

As environmental concerns continue to gain greater importance, green process innovation has been recognized as a crucial strategy for firms enhance their financial performance. Yet, it not clarified how companies can reduce risks and effectively use resources at different levels of innovation. Based on data from 221 Chinese manufacturing collected via the survey method, we address this research gap by examining effects firms’ performance focusing moderating roles social capital customers’ tacit needs. We find that U-shaped impact performance, such is initially negative but then becomes more positive level increases. also relationship moderated needs’ tacitness, weakens effect whereas tacitness strengthens Our findings contribute literature highlighting nonlinear between This offers fine-grained insight into contingent mechanisms well engagement with have profound results provide important implications managers regarding benefits achieved leveraging tacitness.