Review and Future Prospect of Corporate Green Innovation Research
With the rapid development of China's industrial economy,the problem of environmental pollution is gradually severe,enterprises as an important economic subject,improve the overall green innovation ability,and promote the sustainable development of enterprises is imminent.In this paper,the literature on enterprise green innovation at home and abroad is reviewed.The research results show that:(1)The connotation and classification dimension of green innovation have not yet reached a consensus in the academic circle,and green innovation involving all aspects of enterprise production and operation has gradually received attention.(2)The measurement of green innovation mainly adopts quantitative and qualitative methods.In recent years,the number of green patents has been widely adopted as a measurement index.(3)The research on the outcome mechanism of green innovation mainly focuses on the impact of green innovation on performance,while the impact of other aspects is relatively small.(4)Corporate green innovation is affected by internal and external factors,among which the external factors are mainly concentrated on the government and stakeholders,and the internal factors are mainly concentrated on the characteristics of executives and the attributes and characteristics of enterprises.(5)The research literature on green innovation as an intermediary variable is much more than that on green innovation as a moderating variable,which mainly focuses on three categories:enterprise performance,competitive advantage and environmental protection perspective.According to the above research results,this paper puts forward the future research direction of enterprise green innovation,in order to provide help and inspiration for the effective promotion of enterprise green innovation and the development and improvement of green innovation theoretical framework.
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