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April 11, 2026SustainabilityOpen Access

Can Executives with Environmental Expertise Promote Open Innovation?

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JFJiaqi FengShandong Normal UniversityQSQian SongLoughborough UniversityHCHaitao ChengXi'an Jiaotong University

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Panel study examines how executives' environmental expertise enhances open innovation in firms, suggesting implications for sustainability.

Key Points

  • The paper investigates how executives’ environmental expertise influences firms' open innovation engagement.
  • Analyzed a panel of 40,133 firm-year observations from Chinese listed firms between 2002 and 2022.
  • Employed stacked difference-in-differences design and propensity score matching to address endogeneity concerns.
  • Evaluated open innovation through co-patenting activities.
  • Firms led by executives with environmental expertise show significantly greater open innovation.
  • The positive effect of environmental expertise on open innovation is stronger in environments with short-term pressures.
  • The findings support the notion that environmental human capital fosters long-term sustainability-oriented strategies.

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Feng et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d9e5b378050d08c1b75dfbhttps://doi.org/10.3390/su18083708
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