TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between firms’ life cycle stages (mature vs growth) and green process innovation performance. In addition, this research delineates the mechanism by which the mature stage firms are more strongly associated with green process innovation performance compared to growth stage firms and recognizes technological capabilities as a mediating variable fundamental to achieve a higher level of green process innovation performance.Design/methodology/approach This research collected data from 202 publicly listed Thai manufacturing firms. Initially, it used multiple regression analysis to test the relationship between mature stage firms and green process innovation performance compared to the relationship between growth stage firms and green process innovation performance. Later, this research followed Muller et al. (2005) to test the mediating role of technological capabilities and conducted (Sobel, 1982, 1986; Preacher and Hayes, 2004) tests to further validate the mediation effect.Findings The hypothesized relationships were found to be significant, providing a strong support that mature stage firms have higher green process innovation performance compared with growth stage firms. Moreover, the technological capabilities more strongly mediate the relationship between mature stage firms and green process innovation performance compared to growth stage firms and green process innovation performance.Originality/value This research contributes to the existing understanding about the internal drivers of green process innovation performance by incorporating and analyzing the firms’ life cycle stages as an internal driver. This research also contributes by empirically testing the mediating role of technological capabilities on the relationship between firms’ life cycle stages and green process innovation performance.
VL  - 31
IS  - 2
SN  - 1741-038X
DO  - 10.1108/JMTM-08-2018-0257
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/JMTM-08-2018-0257
AU  - Tariq Adeel
AU  - Badir Yuosre F.
AU  - Safdar Umar
AU  - Tariq Waqas
AU  - Badar Kamal
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - Linking firms’ life cycle, capabilities, and green innovation
T2  - Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 284
EP  - 305
Y2  - 2024/09/23
ER  -