Human resource slack, sustainable innovation, and environmental performance of small and medium‐sized enterprises in sub‐Saharan Africa

Despite the burgeoning interests in the environmental strategy, there is a limited understanding of how human resource slack drives sustainable innovation and environmental performance. This paper contributes to filling this gap by examining the effect of human resource slack on sustainable innovati...

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Published inBusiness strategy and the environment Vol. 29; no. 8; pp. 2984 - 2994
Main Authors Adomako, Samuel, Nguyen, Nguyen Phong
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chichester Wiley Periodicals Inc 01.12.2020
Subjects
Environmental impact
Environmental management
Environmental performance
environmental policy
Ghana
human resource slack
Human resources
Humans
Innovations
intangible resource advantage
Sub‐Saharan Africa
Sustainability
sustainable innovation
Sub-Saharan Africa
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Summary:Despite the burgeoning interests in the environmental strategy, there is a limited understanding of how human resource slack drives sustainable innovation and environmental performance. This paper contributes to filling this gap by examining the effect of human resource slack on sustainable innovation and its impact on environmental performance. Besides, this paper investigates the contingent effects of intangible resource advantage on this relationship. The hypotheses are tested using data from 301 small and medium‐sized enterprises in Ghana. The results suggest that human resource slack positively relates to sustainable innovation and this relationship is moderated by intangible resource advantage. Also, we find that sustainable innovation mediates the relationship between human resource slack and environmental performance. The insights from our paper provide a nuanced understanding of the relationships among human resource lack, sustainable innovation, and environmental performance. Implications for theory and practices are discussed.
ISSN:0964-4733
1099-0836
DOI:10.1002/bse.2552