Green entrepreneurship and SME performance: the moderating effect of firm age

Green entrepreneurship has been increasing with growing attention to environment protection by a variety of stakeholders. Green innovation, as the essence of green entrepreneurship, has attracted a broad range of scholarly attention with yet inconclusive findings regarding its effect on firm perform...

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Autores: Yin, Chenli, Salmador Sánchez, María Paz, Li, Dan, Lloria, M. Begoña
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Firm performance
Green entrepreneurship
Green innovation
Green invention innovation
Green utility-model innovation
SME
Empresa
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spelling Green entrepreneurship and SME performance: the moderating effect of firm ageYin, ChenliSalmador Sánchez, María PazLi, DanLloria, M. BegoñaFirm performanceGreen entrepreneurshipGreen innovationGreen invention innovationGreen utility-model innovationSMEEmpresaGreen entrepreneurship has been increasing with growing attention to environment protection by a variety of stakeholders. Green innovation, as the essence of green entrepreneurship, has attracted a broad range of scholarly attention with yet inconclusive findings regarding its effect on firm performance. According to our analyses of 1667 firms listed on SME board and GEM in China during the period from 2010 to 2019, we find interesting results regarding the type of green innovation involved and the moderating effect of firm age on the link between green innovation and SME performance. More precisely, we find green utility-model innovation positively influences firm performance for SMEs, whereas green invention innovation does not contribute to firm performance overall. More interesting, our empirical results suggest that older firms benefit more from both green invention innovation and green utility-model innovation than younger firms. This research contributes to the literature on green entrepreneurship as well as green innovationSpringerDepartamento de Organización de EmpresasFacultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales20222022-03-01research articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10486/710466https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11365-021-00757-3reponame:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAMinstname:Universidad Autónoma de MadridInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/7104662026-06-23T12:46:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Green entrepreneurship and SME performance: the moderating effect of firm age
title Green entrepreneurship and SME performance: the moderating effect of firm age
spellingShingle Green entrepreneurship and SME performance: the moderating effect of firm age
Yin, Chenli
Firm performance
Green entrepreneurship
Green innovation
Green invention innovation
Green utility-model innovation
SME
Empresa
title_short Green entrepreneurship and SME performance: the moderating effect of firm age
title_full Green entrepreneurship and SME performance: the moderating effect of firm age
title_fullStr Green entrepreneurship and SME performance: the moderating effect of firm age
title_full_unstemmed Green entrepreneurship and SME performance: the moderating effect of firm age
title_sort Green entrepreneurship and SME performance: the moderating effect of firm age
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Yin, Chenli
Salmador Sánchez, María Paz
Li, Dan
Lloria, M. Begoña
author Yin, Chenli
author_facet Yin, Chenli
Salmador Sánchez, María Paz
Li, Dan
Lloria, M. Begoña
author_role author
author2 Salmador Sánchez, María Paz
Li, Dan
Lloria, M. Begoña
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author
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Departamento de Organización de Empresas
Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Firm performance
Green entrepreneurship
Green innovation
Green invention innovation
Green utility-model innovation
SME
Empresa
topic Firm performance
Green entrepreneurship
Green innovation
Green invention innovation
Green utility-model innovation
SME
Empresa
description Green entrepreneurship has been increasing with growing attention to environment protection by a variety of stakeholders. Green innovation, as the essence of green entrepreneurship, has attracted a broad range of scholarly attention with yet inconclusive findings regarding its effect on firm performance. According to our analyses of 1667 firms listed on SME board and GEM in China during the period from 2010 to 2019, we find interesting results regarding the type of green innovation involved and the moderating effect of firm age on the link between green innovation and SME performance. More precisely, we find green utility-model innovation positively influences firm performance for SMEs, whereas green invention innovation does not contribute to firm performance overall. More interesting, our empirical results suggest that older firms benefit more from both green invention innovation and green utility-model innovation than younger firms. This research contributes to the literature on green entrepreneurship as well as green innovation
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