Randomized trial explores leadership's impact on green innovations in firms, highlighting social ties' roles.
Key Points
This study aims to understand how different leadership styles influence the adoption of green innovations in organizations.
Examined hypotheses using structural equation modeling in SPSS-24 and AMOS-21.
Dataset from 296 Chinese firms represented by 592 respondents across various industries.
Green entrepreneurial leadership promotes green product innovation more effectively than green process innovation.
Green transformational leadership is more strongly associated with green process innovation than with green product innovation.
Firms with green entrepreneurial leaders benefit more from business ties for green product innovation, while those with transformational leaders rely on political ties for green process innovation.