| Since the 1980 s,China’s economy has experienced rapid growth,at the same time,it has also paid a huge cost of resources,environment and social welfare.However,the "Made in China 2025" strategic plan emphasizes the need to build a green manufacturing system that is efficient,energy-efficient,clean,and recycling,and realize the green innovation transformation of manufacturing enterprises.In practice,many enterprises have obtained sustainable green competitive advantage through the implementation of environmental knowledge management and green innovation practice.However,most of studies fail to research from the perspective of the integration of organizational learning and green innovation theory.There is no unified view on the internal formation mechanism of green innovation behavior.And it is not clear that environmental knowledge learning promotes the path of enterprise green innovation transformation.Based on the theoretical literature,this paper explores the impact mechanism of environmental knowledge learning on environmental performance and proposes relevant theoretical models.Then,using the survey data of 367 manufacturing companies in the Yangtze River Delta region,this paper empirically tests the relationship among environmental knowledge learning,green innovation behavior and environmental performance.The results show that environmental knowledge learning has a positive effect on environmental performance,and exploration learning of environmental knowledge has a stronger effect on environmental performance than exploitation learning of environmental knowledge.Environmental knowledge learning has a positive effect on green innovation behavior and environmental performance.Green innovation behavior has a positive impact on environmental performance.Further research shows that green innovation behavior fully mediates the positive relationship between exploitation learning of environmental knowledge and environmental performance,and it has a partially mediation effect on the positive relationship between exploration learning of environmental knowledge and environmental performance.This paper reveals the inherent mechanism of environment knowledge learning and environmental performance,and expands the theoretical space in the related fields such as organization learning and environment management.It has great implications for enterprises on the implement of green innovation strategy.In order to achieve green development,enterprises should strengthen the learning and accumulation of environmental knowledge,and build a learning mechanism suitable for the development of green innovation.At the same time,they should implement product innovation and technological innovation in a positive and active manner,so as to ensure the transmission of green innovation behavior between environmental knowledge learning and environmental performance. |
