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Promotion or inhibition, imitation or surpassing: Green supply chain management and peer green innovation

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  • Lan, Mudan
  • Huang, Yuhong

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Extensive scholarship has studied the innovation effects of green supply chain management (GSCM), but its influence on peer firms' green innovation behavior remains underexplored. Based on data from Chinese listed manufacturing enterprises and a multiperiod difference-in-differences approach, we find that GSCM implementation by focal firms induces green innovation among industry peers. This facilitating effect is greater in samples characterized by stronger environmental regulation, less favorable business environments, nonpolluting and non-high-tech industries, private ownership, and executives who exhibit stronger environmental awareness. Peer firms primarily follow by learning from and imitating focal firms' green innovation outcomes. Competitive pressure and learning effects are two pivotal transmission mechanisms. Focal firms' GSCM practices do not significantly stimulate green innovation among firms in the same region. By stimulating peer firms' green innovation, focal firms' GSCM simultaneously promotes improvements in peers’ economic and environmental performance. We theoretically enrich the peer imitation behavior literature and offer novel insights into the diffusion mechanisms of green innovation within industries.

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  • Lan, Mudan & Huang, Yuhong, 2026. "Promotion or inhibition, imitation or surpassing: Green supply chain management and peer green innovation," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 154(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:techno:v:154:y:2026:i:c:s016649722600101x
    DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2026.103566
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