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CEO Reputation, Quality Management and Environmental Innovation: The Roles Of Stakeholder Pressure and Resource Commitment

Konadu, Renata, Owusu-Agyei, Samuel, Lartey, Theophilus, Danso, Albert, Adomako, Samuel, Amankwah-Amoah, Joseph (2020) CEO Reputation, Quality Management and Environmental Innovation: The Roles Of Stakeholder Pressure and Resource Commitment. Business Strategy and the Environment, 29 (6). pp. 2310-2323. ISSN 0964-4733. (doi:10.1002/bse.2504) (KAR id:80613)

Abstract

In this paper, we examine how and when chief executive offers’ (CEOs’) reputation enhances environmental innovation by considering quality management as a mediating mechanism of this relationship. In addition, we introduce stakeholder pressures (primary and secondary stakeholder pressures) as important contingencies of the relationship between CEOs’ reputation and quality management. Moreover, we test the moderating role of resource commitment on the quality management-environmental innovation relationship. We test our research model using data from a manufacturing industry sample of 217 firms from Ghana. We find that quality management mediates the relationship between reputation and environmental innovation. Moreover, the relationship between CEOs’ reputation and quality management is amplified when levels of both primary and secondary stakeholder pressures are greater. Finally, our findings show that the effect of quality management on environmental innovation is enhanced when resource commitment is greater. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1002/bse.2504
Uncontrolled keywords: CEO
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions: Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Department of Marketing, Entrepreneurship and International Business
Depositing User: Joseph Amankwah-Amoah
Date Deposited: 25 Mar 2020 09:13 UTC
Last Modified: 12 Apr 2022 23:00 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/80613 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

Amankwah-Amoah, Joseph.

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0383-5831
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