Employee training and eco-innovation: a bibliometric analysis
Keywords:
sustainability, innovation, training, ecological innovation, eco-innovation
Abstract
The main purpose of this study was to analyze the scientific literature on personnel training and firm ecological innovation, in order to determine how the relationship between employee skills and the likelihood of companies to develop innovation processes environmentally oriented has been addressed. With that aim, we performed a bibliometric analysis. The specific methodology used in this study is called “bibliographic link”. Two articles (a and b) present a bibliographic link when they have cited the same article (an article c) in their list of references. Results show that literature on personnel training and ecological innovation focus on five thematic clusters: a) internal capabilities for ecological innovation, b) environmental training and green supply chain management, c) environmental innovation, d) cleaner production, and e) employee learning. These results evidence that ecological innovation literature has a high conceptual association with environmental factors.
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Cainelli, G., & Mazzanti, M. (2013). Environmental innovations in services: Manufacturing-services integration and policy transmissions. Research Policy, 42(9), 1595–1604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2013.05.010
Cainelli, G., Mazzanti, M., & Montresor, S. (2012). Environmental Innovations, Local Networks and Internationalization. Industry and Innovation, 19(8), 697–734. https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2012.739782
Caloghirou, Y., Giotopoulos, I., Korra, E., & Tsakanikas, A. (2018). How do employee training and knowledge stocks affect product innovation? Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 27(4), 343-360.
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Digalwar, A. K., Tagalpallewar, A. R., & Sunnapwar, V. K. (2013). Green manufacturing performance measures: An empirical investigation from Indian manufacturing industries. Measuring Business Excellence, 17(4), 59–75. https://doi.org/10.1108/MBE-09-2012-0046
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Ericson, T. (2005). Personnel training: a theoretical and empirical review (No. 2005: 1). Working Paper, IFAU-Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation.
Freeman, N. H. (1996). Art Learning in Developmental Perspective. Journal of Art & Design Education. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1476-8070.1996.tb00659.x
Geradts, T. H. J., & Bocken, N. M. P. (2019). Driving Sustainability-Oriented Innovation. MIT Sloan Management Review.
González, X., Miles-Touya, D., & Pazó, C. (2016). R&D, worker training and innovation: firm-level evidence. Industry and Innovation, 23(8), 694-712.
Haugh, H. M., & Talwar, A. (2010). How do corporations embed sustainability across the organization? Academy of Management Learning and Education, 9(3), 384–396. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMLE.2010.53791822
Huang, X.-X., Hu, Z.-P., Liu, C.-S., Yu, D.-J., & Yu, L.-F. (2016). The relationships between regulatory and customer pressure, green organizational responses, and green innovation performance. Journal of Cleaner Production, 112, 3423–3433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.10.106
Jones, O., Macpherson, A., & Thorpe, R. (2010). Learning in owner-managed small firms: Mediating artefacts and strategic space. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 22(7-8), 649-673.
Ketata, I., Sofka, W., & Grimpe, C. (2015). The role of internal capabilities and firms’ environment for sustainable innovation: Evidence for Germany. R and D Management, 45(1), 60–75. https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12052
Kwon, D. B. (2009). Human capital and its measurement. In The 3rd OECD World Forum on “Statistics, Knowledge and Policy” Charting Progress, Building Visions, Improving Life (pp. 27-30).
Leung, X. Y., Sun, J., & Bai, B. (2017). Bibliometrics of social media research: A co-citation and co-word analysis. International Journal of Hospitality Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2017.06.012
Liu, X., Liu, B., Shishime, T., Yu, Q., Bi, J., & Fujitsuka, T. (2010). An empirical study on the driving mechanism of proactive corporate environmental management in China. Journal of Environmental Management, 91(8), 1707–1717. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.03.011
Lopes, A. P. V. B. V., & de Carvalho, M. M. (2018). Evolution of the open innovation paradigm: Towards a contingent conceptual model. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.02.014
Marvel, M. R. (2013). Human Capital and Search–Based Discovery: A Study of High–Tech Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship theory and practice, 37(2), 403-419.
Musiolik, J., & Markard, J. (2011). Creating and shaping innovation systems: Formal networks in the innovation system for stationary fuel cells in Germany. Energy Policy, 39(4), 1909–1922. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2010.12.052
Sarkis, J., Gonzalez-Torre, P., & Adenso-Diaz, B. (2010). Stakeholder pressure and the adoption of environmental practices: The mediating effect of training. Journal of Operations Management, 28(2), 163–176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jom.2009.10.001
Statista. (2019). Average spend on workplace training per employee worldwide from 2008 to 2017 (in U.S. dollars). Retrieved February 21, 2019, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/738519/workpltraining-spending-per-employee/.
Silvestre, B., & Mihaela, D. (2019). Innovations for sustainable development : Moving toward a sustainable future b, 208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.09.244
Suk, S., Liu, X., & Sudo, K. (2013). A survey study of energy saving activities of industrial companies in the Republic of Korea. Journal of Cleaner Production, 41, 301–311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.10.029
Takey, S. M., & Carvalho, M. M. (2016). Fuzzy front end of systemic innovations: A conceptual framework based on a systematic literature review. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2016.06.011
Tharenou, P. (2010). Training and development in organizations. In The SAGE Handbook of Human Resource Management. https://doi.org/10.4135/9780857021496.n10
Theyel, G. (2000). Management practices for environmental innovation and performance. International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 20(2), 249–266. https://doi.org/10.1108/01443570010304288
Thornhill, S. (2006). Knowledge, innovation and firm performance in high- and low-technology regimes. Journal of Business Venturing, 21(5), 687–703. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2005.06.001
Unnikrishnan, S., & Hegde, D. S. (2007). Environmental training and cleaner production in Indian industry-A micro-level study. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 50(4), 427–441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2006.07.003
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Vidal-Salazar, M. D., Cordón-Pozo, E., & Ferrón-Vilchez, V. (2012). Human resource management and developing proactive environmental strategies: The influence of environmental training and organizational learning. Human Resource Management, 51(6), 905–934. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21507
Wang, Z., Mathiyazhagan, K., Xu, L., & Diabat, A. (2016). A decision making trial and evaluation laboratory approach to analyze the barriers to Green Supply Chain Management adoption in a food packaging company. Journal of Cleaner Production, 117, 19–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.09.142
Published
2020-12-01
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Pedraza Álvarez, L. P., Charris Fontanilla, A., Pérez Suescún, L. F., & Regalado Calanche, D. (2020). Employee training and eco-innovation: a bibliometric analysis. Revista Venezolana De Gerencia, 25(4), 167-179. Retrieved from https://produccioncientificaluz.org/index.php/rvg/article/view/35184
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