TY - JOUR
T1 - Environmental commitment and innovation as catalysts for export performance in family firms
AU - Haddoud, Mohamed Yacine
AU - Onjewu, Adah Kole Emmanuel
AU - Nowiński, Witold
N1 - Funding information: We thank the Enterprise Analysis Unit of the Development Economics Global Indicators Department of the World Bank Group for making the data available. All the analysis, interpretations, and conclusions drawn from the data are entirely and solely those of the user. We are grateful to the two anonymous reviewers for providing constructive comments. Their remarks improved the thoroughness and presentation of this paper.
PY - 2021/12/1
Y1 - 2021/12/1
N2 - Recognizing the extent of inconclusive findings in the environmental commitment – export performance nexus, this study examines this link in order to reduce theoretical ambiguity. The paper focuses on family firms in Poland and assesses the distinct rate of export intensity resulting from strategic commitment to environmental issues, through product innovation and process innovation. Analyzing a sample of 409 firms sourced from the World Bank Enterprise Survey database, the results indicate that strategic commitment to environmental issues encourages process innovation but not product innovation. In turn, process innovation increases export intensity while product innovation does not. It is also found that quality certifications interact with the relationship between strategic commitment to environmental issues and product innovation. These findings pose important theoretical implications and offer insights to stakeholders particularly interested in the sustainable practices of family firms.
AB - Recognizing the extent of inconclusive findings in the environmental commitment – export performance nexus, this study examines this link in order to reduce theoretical ambiguity. The paper focuses on family firms in Poland and assesses the distinct rate of export intensity resulting from strategic commitment to environmental issues, through product innovation and process innovation. Analyzing a sample of 409 firms sourced from the World Bank Enterprise Survey database, the results indicate that strategic commitment to environmental issues encourages process innovation but not product innovation. In turn, process innovation increases export intensity while product innovation does not. It is also found that quality certifications interact with the relationship between strategic commitment to environmental issues and product innovation. These findings pose important theoretical implications and offer insights to stakeholders particularly interested in the sustainable practices of family firms.
KW - Export intensity
KW - Poland
KW - Process innovation
KW - Product innovation
KW - Quality certification
KW - Strategic commitment to environmental issues
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U2 - 10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121085
DO - 10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121085
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85113960209
SN - 0040-1625
VL - 173
JO - Technological Forecasting and Social Change
JF - Technological Forecasting and Social Change
M1 - 121085
ER -
