Geopolitical risk and green outward foreign direct investment location choice: evidence from Chinese listed companies.

Green outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) has become an important driving force for sustainable economic and environmental development. However, increasing geopolitical risks (GPR) pose a critical obstacle to the green OFDI of multinational enterprises. Drawing upon international production eclectic theory, we explore the impact of GPR on the green OFDI of Chinese enterprises and discuss the moderating role of firms' green technological and political capabilities including different moderating effects of these types of capabilities in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and non-BRI countries. Using the BvD Cross-border Investment database and annual reports of Chinese A-listed companies, we constructed a unique micro-firm overseas green project dataset in 2013-2020. Negative binomial models were used for empirical testing. The GPR has a significant negative impact on Chinese enterprises' green OFDI location choices. The impact intensity varies with the firms' green technological and political capabilities. In addition, compared with non-BRI countries, the role of firms' green technological capability in BRI countries is stronger, while firms' political capability is not significant. These findings expand research on the relationship between GPR and green development by emphasizing the differential impact of GPR on enterprises' green OFDI location choices under different firm capabilities and bilateral country relations.

Enabling green shared vision: linking environmental strategic focus and environmental performance through ISO 14001 and technological capabilities.

Consistent with the worldwide call to combat environmental degradation concerns and advance sustainable development, there is increasing pressure on organizations to ensure organizational strategies include green initiatives. In this regard, environmental strategic focus is a relevant concept for scholars and business leaders. Underpinned by dynamic capability and stakeholder theory, the present study hypothesizes that ESF derives environmental performance, coordinated by mediating role of green shared vision that strategic environmental planning and decision making. Additionally, the current study employed ISO 14001 and technological capability as moderators between ESF and the green shared vision link. Methodologically, the data for this study was collected from 162 senior managerial officials working in EMS 14,001-accredited manufacturing firms in Malaysia. The data were analyzed with the AMOS 23 software to perform covariance-based structural equation modeling (CB-SEM), and then hierarchical regression analysis and moderated-mediation analysis were applied with SPSS 25. The findings confirmed that ESF is positively linked to environmental performance. The results validate that green shared vision acts as a positive mediator between ESF and environmental performance, in which the creation and sharing of knowledge embedded in a green shared vision serve as enablers to create higher environmental performance. The current study also validates a significant moderating role of ISO 14001 and technological capability between ESF and green shared vision. The study confirms how environmental strategies are integrated into environmental management processes that can serve as a source of dynamic capabilities.

Estratégia nacional de inovação: uma breve contribuição para sua efetividade sob a perspectiva de acumulação de capacidade tecnológica / Estrategia nacional de innovación: una breve contribución a su efectividad desde la perspectiva de la acumulación de capacidad tecnológica / National innovation strategy: A brief contribution to its effectiveness from the perspective of technological capability accumulation

Resumo A acumulação de um conjunto de habilidades e recursos intensivos em conhecimento para mudar tecnologias existentes ou para criar novas tecnologias, ou seja, a capacidade tecnológica, em nível de empresas e indústrias, é um dos insumos vitais para a transição de países para níveis progressivamente mais elevados de desenvolvimento industrial e de renda per capita. Esse tema tem integrado a agenda governamental e empresarial de vários países que realizaram essa transição de maneira exitosa. Porém, as diversas políticas públicas de inovação implementadas no Brasil durante as últimas décadas, assim como os diferentes estudos e debates sobre os resultados limitados gerados por essas políticas, têm dispensado um tratamento limitado à acumulação de capacidade tecnológica de empresas e indústrias como uma das fontes primárias do aumento da taxa de inovação e do crescimento sustentado da economia. Este artigo objetiva apresentar uma base analítica no intuito de contribuir para a efetividade de uma estratégia nacional de inovação centrada na acumulação de capacidade tecnológica em nível de empresas e indústrias. Essa base analítica pode contribuir para a aferição do retorno das políticas de incentivo à inovação em termos de acumulação de capacidade tecnológica para inovações significativas.

Resumen La acumulación de un conjunto de habilidades y recursos intensivos en conocimiento para cambiar las tecnologías existentes o crear nuevas tecnologías, es decir, la capacidad tecnológica, en el ámbito empresarial e industrial, es uno de los insumos vitales para la transición de los países hacia niveles cada vez más altos de desarrollo industrial y de ingreso per cápita. Este tema ha integrado la agenda gubernamental y empresarial de varios países que hicieron exitosamente esta transición. Sin embargo, las diversas políticas públicas de innovación implementadas en Brasil durante las últimas décadas, así como los diferentes estudios y debates sobre los limitados resultados generados por estas políticas, han dado un tratamiento limitado a la acumulación de capacidad tecnológica por parte de empresas e industrias como una de las fuentes principales del aumento de la tasa de innovación y del crecimiento sostenido de la economía. Este artículo tiene como objetivo presentar una base analítica para contribuir a la efectividad de una estrategia nacional de innovación centrada en la acumulación de capacidad tecnológica en el ámbito empresarial e industrial. Esta base analítica puede contribuir a la evaluación del retorno de las políticas de incentivos a la innovación en términos de acumulación de capacidad tecnológica para innovaciones significativas.

Abstract Technological capability refers to knowledge-intensive skills and resources to change existing technologies or to create new ones. The accumulation of such capability by companies and industries has been part of governments' and businesses' agendas as it is vital for countries' industrial development and increase of per capita income. However, the various public innovation policies implemented in Brazil over the last few decades and the different studies and debates on their limited outcomes failed to address the accumulation of technological capabilities by companies and industries as one of the primary sources for the increase in the rate of innovation and the sustained growth of the economy. This article presents an analytical framework to contribute to the effectiveness of a national innovation strategy centred on the accumulation of technological capability at the level of companies and industries. This analytical framework can contribute to assessing the return on public innovation policies regarding the accumulation of technological capability to develop significant innovations.