Green innovation to respond to environmental regulation: How external knowledge adoption and green absorptive capacity matter?

Jianming Zhang, Gongqian Liang, Taiwen Feng, Chunlin Yuan, Wenbo Jiang · 2019 · Business Strategy and the Environment

Summary. Environmental regulations drive green innovation in manufacturing firms, but the mechanism depends on how firms adopt external knowledge. Using survey data from 237 Chinese manufacturers, the study finds that both command-and-control and market-based regulations increase external knowledge adoption, which then drives green product and process innovation. A firm's capacity to absorb and use green knowledge strengthens the effect of market-based regulations specifically.

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@article{zhang-2019-green-innovation-respond-environmental-regulation,
  title   = {Green innovation to respond to environmental regulation: How external knowledge adoption and green absorptive capacity matter?},
  author  = {Jianming Zhang and Gongqian Liang and Taiwen Feng and Chunlin Yuan and Wenbo Jiang},
  journal = {Business Strategy and the Environment},
  year    = {2019},
  doi     = {10.1002/bse.2349},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2349}
}

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DOI

10.1002/bse.2349

Countries

China

Regions

Asia

Categories

climate-and-environment, policy, innovation-networks, general-innovation

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2026-04-28