Do we need human capital heterogeneity for energy efficiency and innovativeness? Insights from European catching-up territories

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25410%2F23%3A39920541" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25410/23:39920541 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421523001507" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421523001507</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2023.113565" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.enpol.2023.113565</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Do we need human capital heterogeneity for energy efficiency and innovativeness? Insights from European catching-up territories
Original language description
This study brings a new perspective on the energy efficiency issue within the ""catching-up territory"" of Southern, Baltic, and Eastern European countries, where such analyses are missing. We create an original theory mix, combining theories of human capital, natural resource-based view, gender socialization, and upper echelons, to address three important research gaps: (i) the missing link regarding the effects of firm-specific human capital on energy efficiency; (ii) the interrelationship between energy efficiency and firms' innovativeness; and (iii) nonlinear relationships between firm-specific human capital, energy efficiency, and innovativeness. Moreover, we test whether energy efficiency has a mediating role within firms' innovation processes. Our results confirm the key role experiences and skills play in energy efficiency and surprisingly refute the importance of gender diversity in this case. We also confirm the importance of environmental behaviour for innovativeness and reveal the mediating role of energy efficiency for process innovations. Finally, we propose several important implica-tions for managers and policy makers.
Czech name
—
Czech description
—

Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
—
OECD FORD branch
50204 - Business and management

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-03037S" target="_blank" >GA20-03037S: Towards a dynamic knowledge-based business model for open innovations</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Similar results(10)