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Can CEO environmental awareness promote new product development performance? Empirical research on Chinese manufacturing firms

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  • Jiawang Tang
  • Along Liu
  • Jibao Gu
  • Hefu Liu

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Despite the growing interest in the role of chief executive officers' (CEOs') environmental awareness in enhancing performance, its impact on new product development (NPD) performance, as well as the underlying mechanisms and contextual bounds of the impact, remains unexplored. Based on upper echelons theory, we suggest that CEO environmental awareness promotes NPD performance through corporate environmental practice. We further theorize that the role of CEO environmental awareness is contingent on environmental institutional pressure. To validate the model, we collected survey data from 534 senior executives of 178 manufacturing firms in China. The main results show that corporate environmental practice completely mediates the relationship between CEO environmental awareness and NPD performance. The relationship is positively moderated by environmental normative pressure, whereas environmental regulatory pressure negatively moderates this process. Theoretical and practical implications of how to leverage CEO environmental awareness and environmental institutional pressure to boost NPD performance are discussed.

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  • Jiawang Tang & Along Liu & Jibao Gu & Hefu Liu, 2024. "Can CEO environmental awareness promote new product development performance? Empirical research on Chinese manufacturing firms," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 33(2), pages 985-1003, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:bstrat:v:33:y:2024:i:2:p:985-1003
    DOI: 10.1002/bse.3527
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