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CIO leadership, employee digital ability, and corporate green innovation performance–moderating effect of organizational agility and environmental culture

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  • Zhang Xiufan

    (Zhejiang Sci-Tech University)

  • Liu Luan Yunqiao

    (Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Electric Power)

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In the context of the digital age, how does the leadership of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) become an essential support for enterprises to enhance their digital capabilities and achieve green innovation? Based on leadership theory, dynamic capability theory, and cognitive motivation theory, this paper constructs a systematic research model to explore how CIO leadership promotes green innovation and deeply analyzes the mediating effect of digital capability and the moderating effect of the organizational agility and organizational environment culture, by collecting 395 enterprise sample data, to verify our theoretical model. The results show that transformational, transactional, and ethical leadership styles significantly promote green innovation. Furthermore, transformational and ethical leadership styles promote green innovation by stimulating employees' digital exploration and utilization capabilities. Organizational agility plays a positive moderating role in the process of transformational leadership promoting employees' digital utilization. The organizational environmental culture has a significant positive moderating effect on the process of CIO transformational leadership promoting green innovation. It has a significant negative moderating effect on the process of CIO transactional leadership and ethical leadership promoting green innovation. The framework constructed in this study closely combines the CIO leadership style with employees’ digital ability and provides a new path for enterprises to achieve green innovation.

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  • Zhang Xiufan & Liu Luan Yunqiao, 2025. "CIO leadership, employee digital ability, and corporate green innovation performance–moderating effect of organizational agility and environmental culture," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 27(10), pages 24585-24628, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:endesu:v:27:y:2025:i:10:d:10.1007_s10668-024-05581-7
    DOI: 10.1007/s10668-024-05581-7
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