高管环保意识与中小企业生态创新——制度压力与组织冗余的调节

Senior Executives’ Environmental Awareness and Eco-innovation of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises:The Moderating Effect of Institutional Pressure and Organizational Slack

生态创新对中小企业获取竞争优势和实现可持续发展具有重要的现实意义。基于山东、江苏等182份调研数据,运用高阶理论,探讨高管环保意识对生态创新的影响。研究表明:高管环保意识对中小企业生态创新具有显著的正向影响;制度压力对高管环保意识与中小企业生态创新的关系具有正向调节作用;组织冗余对高管环保意识与中小企业生态创新的关系具有正向调节作用;制度压力和组织冗余对高管环保意识与中小企业生态创新的关系发挥联合调节作用,即当制度压力和组织冗余都增高时,高管环保意识对中小企业生态创新的积极作用增强。该结论拓展了中小企业生态创新的前因变量研究,同时也为中小企业提升管理者环保意识进而促进生态创新战略的实施提供了新思路。

Eco-innovation is of great practical significance for small and medium-sized enterprises(SMEs) to gain competitive advantages and achieve sustainable development. Based on the data of 182 questionnaires in Shandong, Jiangsu and other regions, by the use of upper echelons theory, this paper discusses the relationship between senior executives’ environmental awareness and eco-innovation of SMEs. The empirical study shows that senior executives’ environmental awareness has a significant positive impact on eco-innovation of SMEs;institutional pressure has a significant positive regulatory effect on the relationship between senior executives’ environmental awareness and eco-innovation of SMEs;organizational slack has a significant positive regulatory effect on the relationship between senior executives’ environmental awareness and eco-innovation of SMEs;institutional pressure and organizational slack have a joint regulatory effect on the relationship between senior executives’ environmental awareness and eco-innovation of SMEs, that is, when both institutional pressure and organizational slack are high, the positive impact of senior executives’ environmental awareness on eco-innovation of SMEs is increased. The results not only expand the antecedent variable study of eco-innovation of SMEs, but also provide a new idea for SMEs to improve senior executives’ environmental awareness in order to promote the implementation of eco-innovation strategy.