The Impact of Sustainable Innovations on Firm Performance – A Meta-Analysis

可持续创新对公司绩效的影响——荟萃分析

• 批准号: 447437465
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Maik Hammerschmidt
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für Marketing und Innovationsmanagement
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2019-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/447437465?language=en
• 关键词: Impact; Sustainable; Innovations; Firm; Performance

This research project investigates how companies can reconcile environmental responsibility with financial performance through sustainable innovation. Using meta-analytical methods, the project pursues three goals: First, distinct sustainable innovation types are identified at the product, process and organizational level and their performance outcomes are tested. Then, potential synergies between different sustainable innovation types are examined. Finally, the project addresses firm-external and internal contingency factors that enhance or mitigate the impact of sustainable innovation types on financial performance. The research project makes important contributions to research. It delivers generalizable empirical insights into the direction and strength of each SI type’s effect on performance which are missing in extant literature. Further, the project sheds light on the so far neglected interplay between sustainable innovation types and clarifies under which contextual factors the benefits of introducing sustainable innovation types outweigh their downsides. In practice, clarifying these issues is of utmost importance to help managers in assessing the potential of sustainable innovation and prioritize specific or combined innovation types. The results also help practitioners to align sustainable innovation activities with specific market conditions and firm characteristics.

该研究项目调查公司如何通过可持续创新来协调环境责任与财务绩效。该项目利用元分析方法追求三个目标：首先，在产品、流程和组织层面确定不同的可持续创新类型，并测试其绩效结果。然后，研究不同可持续创新类型之间的潜在协同作用。最后，该项目解决了公司外部和内部的意外因素，这些因素增强或减轻了可持续创新类型对财务绩效的影响。该研究项目对研究做出了重要贡献。它提供了关于每种 SI 类型对绩效影响的方向和强度的普遍经验见解，而这些在现有文献中是缺失的。此外，该项目揭示了迄今为止被忽视的可持续创新类型之间的相互作用，并阐明了在哪些背景因素下引入可持续创新类型的好处大于其缺点。在实践中，澄清这些问题对于帮助管理者评估可持续创新的潜力并确定特定或组合创新类型的优先顺序至关重要。研究结果还帮助从业者将可持续创新活动与特定的市场条件和公司特征结合起来。