Pub Date : 2025-12-05DOI: 10.1016/j.jik.2025.100904
Lelai Shi , Qiuhang Chen , Hong Lin
This study uses 102 textile enterprises listed in China’s A-share market from 2012 to 2022 as the research objects to explore the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on enhancing textile enterprises’ pollution and carbon emissions reduction. Findings reveal that AI can significantly promote textile enterprises’ coordinated enhancement of pollution and carbon emissions reduction, and this finding holds after a series of robustness tests. The mechanism analysis demonstrates that textile enterprises’ pollution and carbon emissions reduction can be promoted by AI through improving textile raw material suppliers’ total factor productivity, increasing the fixed investment for pollution and carbon emissions reduction, and reducing the price of cotton. Heterogeneity analysis reveals that the positive impact of AI is more significant for textile enterprises with high environmental regulation intensity, executives with digital backgrounds, and intellectual property demonstration cities. In response to these findings, we propose relevant policy suggestions to provide references for accelerating textile enterprises’ transformation and upgrading and promoting steady economic growth.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-04DOI: 10.1016/j.jik.2025.100905
Xingwei Li, Guichuan Zhou, Beiyu Yi
Green technology innovation (GTI) is crucial for enhancing the resource utilization of construction and demolition waste (CDW). However, consumer resistance to products made from recycled CDW significantly constrains their advancement. Existing studies largely emphasize government policies and technological progress, while the pivotal influence of consumer innovation resistance remains underexplored. This study applies evolutionary game theory, grounded in innovation resistance theory, to examine the long-term interactive dynamics between consumers and building material manufacturers (BMMs). The results reveal that (1) both consumers’ stronger willingness to purchase green innovative products and BMMs’ higher initial intention to adopt GTI foster sustainable green development; and (2) the degree of consumer innovation resistance exerts heterogeneous effects on BMMs’ GTI decisions, whereas consumer green preferences consistently stimulate GTI adoption. Overall, this study elucidates the evolutionary mechanisms through which consumer innovation resistance and green preferences affect BMMs’ GTI behavior, addressing a key gap in the CDW domain. It further offers theoretical guidance for enterprises to mitigate innovation resistance, refine GTI strategies, and advance sustainable innovation in the construction industry.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-04DOI: 10.1016/j.jik.2025.100901
Jose Carlos Ballester-Miquel , Pilar Perez-Ruiz , Sandra Gisbert-Muñoz , Sandra Enri-Peiró
This study examines how six different competencies or soft skills (leadership, critical thinking, teamwork, communication, resilience, and problem-solving) contribute to innovation in the workplace. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to analyze a sample of 125 professionals. The analysis reveals that leadership has the most significant influence on innovation, followed by problem-solving, with the other competencies showing less meaningful effects. The results suggest that organizations that foster strong leadership and practical problem-solving skills are better equipped to innovate and adapt to the challenges of today’s marketplace. This study sheds light on the internal dynamics of organizational competencies and explains how these competencies can be targeted more effectively to foster an innovative and proactive workplace.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-04DOI: 10.1016/j.jik.2025.100906
Jimi Park , Nicole Pitassi
Brain drain, the emigration of highly skilled workers, is both a pressing policy issue and a cultural frame for examining how societies negotiate belonging, loss, and opportunity. Using data from X (formerly known as Twitter) across English, Spanish, and Italian debates, this study examines engagement dynamics through three dimensions: visibility, sentiment shifts, and thematic divergence. In the present context, we define visibility as the weighted exposure of replies and likes that are standardized within each language. The dataset includes approximately 3100 English, 4500 Spanish, and 250 Italian tweet–reply pairs collected between 2020 and 2024. The findings show that visibility consistently drives engagement but carries distinct cultural meanings. The discourse in English illustrates coherence: engagement is amplified when replies remain thematically aligned, reinforcing bonding capital and collective narratives. The Spanish discourse illustrates plurality: visible divergent replies broaden participation, reflecting bridging capital while introducing volatility. The Italian discourse illustrates optimism: positive sentiment shifts sustain institutional trust with divergence. For policymakers, these results highlight the following specific pathways to tailor crisis communication: reinforce coherence in English debates, embrace plurality in Spanish contexts, and sustain optimism in Italian discourse.
{"title":"Navigating the brain drain crisis: Knowledge, visibility, sentiment, and divergence on X (formerly Twitter) among English, Spanish, and Italian users","authors":"Jimi Park , Nicole Pitassi","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100906","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100906","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Brain drain, the emigration of highly skilled workers, is both a pressing policy issue and a cultural frame for examining how societies negotiate belonging, loss, and opportunity. Using data from X (formerly known as Twitter) across English, Spanish, and Italian debates, this study examines engagement dynamics through three dimensions: visibility, sentiment shifts, and thematic divergence. In the present context, we define visibility as the weighted exposure of replies and likes that are standardized within each language. The dataset includes approximately 3100 English, 4500 Spanish, and 250 Italian tweet–reply pairs collected between 2020 and 2024. The findings show that visibility consistently drives engagement but carries distinct cultural meanings. The discourse in English illustrates coherence: engagement is amplified when replies remain thematically aligned, reinforcing bonding capital and collective narratives. The Spanish discourse illustrates plurality: visible divergent replies broaden participation, reflecting bridging capital while introducing volatility. The Italian discourse illustrates optimism: positive sentiment shifts sustain institutional trust with divergence. For policymakers, these results highlight the following specific pathways to tailor crisis communication: reinforce coherence in English debates, embrace plurality in Spanish contexts, and sustain optimism in Italian discourse.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"12 ","pages":"Article 100906"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2025-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145689436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-29DOI: 10.1016/j.jik.2025.100896
Nika Hein , Markus Thomas Münter , Volker Zimmermann
Firms are facing a substantial challenge in their journey towards a twin transformation to achieve greater environmental sustainability and digitalization simultaneously. Research lacks a deeper understanding on how firms respond to the need for a twin transformation. This study examines resources and capabilities that drive the green, digital, or twin transformation, in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Utilizing cross-sectional data from a sample of 7531 German firms sourced from the KfW SME panel, we conduct probit analysis to empirically test our hypotheses. Based on the different patterns observed with respect to the strategic orientation of a firm, we identify three distinct clusters: (1) firms solely prioritizing digitalization, which benefit primarily from size (number of employees and investments) and are situated in cities with access to a large number of graduates; (2) those emphasizing sustainability, typically smaller in scale with limited access to graduates and the tendency to be located in less densely populated areas; and (3) firms engaging in twin transformation, exhibiting similar characteristics to those focused on digitalization but possessing more experience and often being older. We find that the presence of college graduates as well as regular innovation activities have a significantly positive impact on digitalization, but a negative one on sustainability. This study contributes to research on understanding the strategic orientation of SMEs choosing between digitalization, environmental sustainability, and twin transformation, focusing on firm size as well as resources and capabilities. JEL Codes: D22, L21, O14, O32, R11
{"title":"Green, digital, or twin strategic orientation: What drives environmental sustainability and digitalization in German innovative SMEs?","authors":"Nika Hein , Markus Thomas Münter , Volker Zimmermann","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100896","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100896","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Firms are facing a substantial challenge in their journey towards a twin transformation to achieve greater environmental sustainability and digitalization simultaneously. Research lacks a deeper understanding on how firms respond to the need for a twin transformation. This study examines resources and capabilities that drive the green, digital, or twin transformation, in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Utilizing cross-sectional data from a sample of 7531 German firms sourced from the KfW SME panel, we conduct probit analysis to empirically test our hypotheses. Based on the different patterns observed with respect to the strategic orientation of a firm, we identify three distinct clusters: (1) firms solely prioritizing digitalization, which benefit primarily from size (number of employees and investments) and are situated in cities with access to a large number of graduates; (2) those emphasizing sustainability, typically smaller in scale with limited access to graduates and the tendency to be located in less densely populated areas; and (3) firms engaging in twin transformation, exhibiting similar characteristics to those focused on digitalization but possessing more experience and often being older. We find that the presence of college graduates as well as regular innovation activities have a significantly positive impact on digitalization, but a negative one on sustainability. This study contributes to research on understanding the strategic orientation of SMEs choosing between digitalization, environmental sustainability, and twin transformation, focusing on firm size as well as resources and capabilities. JEL Codes: D22, L21, O14, O32, R11</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"12 ","pages":"Article 100896"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145613700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-27DOI: 10.1016/j.jik.2025.100900
Haixiong Deng , Fang Yang , Wei Huang
Digitization has reshaped corporate innovation. However, few studies have explored how companies can fully incentivize their human capital in the digital transformation process to improve innovation capabilities. To address this gap, this study proposes a configurational framework that incorporates the degree of digitization and five key incentive mechanisms—namely, executive compensation incentives, executive equity incentives, employee compensation incentives, employee stock ownership plans, and pay gaps. Based on dynamic qualitative comparative analysis and regression analysis, this study utilized balanced data of 1387 listed manufacturing companies in China from 2016 to 2023 to explore the complex causal mechanisms driving high corporate innovation efficiency (IE). We found that no single factor constitutes a necessary condition for high corporate IE, but the necessity of executive and employee compensation incentives increased over time. Moreover, seven configuration paths leading to high corporate innovation efficiency were identified and integrated into four strategic solutions that vary across temporal dimensions, company size, and marginal effects. Our study demonstrates that the key to improving IE in the digital age lies in managing the relationship between digital value creation and human capital value distribution. The results provide important theoretical and practical insights into promoting high-quality innovation development in companies.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-27DOI: 10.1016/j.jik.2025.100871
Yu Qian , Zeshui Xu , Yong Qin , Marinko Skare
The continuous expansion of income disparities poses serious threats to sustainable socioeconomic development. Concurrently, as a key driver of technological advancement, the influence of innovation on shaping income inequality trends has been extensively debated. This study employs panel structural vector autoregression to examine the complex effects of innovation on income inequality using panel data from 59 countries spanning 1995–2021. The two-stage empirical analysis reveals that innovation shocks negatively affect income inequality in developed countries while positively impacting it in developing countries. Further qualitative investigations indicate that differences in developed and developing countries’ institutional guarantees may be a key reason for this distinction. We also determine that innovation only accounts for a small proportion (≤8 %) of the causes of income inequality changes in either case, and fluctuations in and solidification of income distribution patterns are the most significant influences within the scope of this study. Recommendations include strengthening institutional guarantees to ensure equitable distribution of innovation benefits, enhancing educational attainment, and promoting targeted skills training programs to bridge workforce skills gaps. By addressing these issues, policymakers can develop more effective strategies to balance the pursuit of innovation and the imperative goal of improving income distribution.
{"title":"Dual nature of innovation’s impact on income inequality: A comparative panel study of developed and developing countries","authors":"Yu Qian , Zeshui Xu , Yong Qin , Marinko Skare","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100871","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100871","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The continuous expansion of income disparities poses serious threats to sustainable socioeconomic development. Concurrently, as a key driver of technological advancement, the influence of innovation on shaping income inequality trends has been extensively debated. This study employs panel structural vector autoregression to examine the complex effects of innovation on income inequality using panel data from 59 countries spanning 1995–2021. The two-stage empirical analysis reveals that innovation shocks negatively affect income inequality in developed countries while positively impacting it in developing countries. Further qualitative investigations indicate that differences in developed and developing countries’ institutional guarantees may be a key reason for this distinction. We also determine that innovation only accounts for a small proportion (≤8 %) of the causes of income inequality changes in either case, and fluctuations in and solidification of income distribution patterns are the most significant influences within the scope of this study. Recommendations include strengthening institutional guarantees to ensure equitable distribution of innovation benefits, enhancing educational attainment, and promoting targeted skills training programs to bridge workforce skills gaps. By addressing these issues, policymakers can develop more effective strategies to balance the pursuit of innovation and the imperative goal of improving income distribution.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100871"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145624057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1016/j.jik.2025.100899
Viviana Paola Delgado Sánchez , Ana Zorio-Grima , Paloma Merello
This study investigates the factors influencing the adoption of assurance practices in sustainability reporting among leading companies across 42 countries from 2019 to 2022. Using panel data models, it examines the assurance lag, duality between the choice of audit firm and assuror for financial and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) assurance, and level of assurance (reasonable vs. limited). The results indicate that auditor–assuror duality may reduce the assurance lag through improved consistency and efficiency. However, this choice is not driven by expected benefits such as the inclusion of ESG information in annual reports or a preference for audit firms over consultants as assurors. Additionally, when audit firms follow specific assurance standards, there is evidence of a negative impact on the percentage of ESG information verified at the reasonable assurance level. This apparent negative impact is probably due to conservative approaches and strict methodological requirements. The findings offer insight to support decision-making for companies and regulators in enhancing transparency and trust in sustainability reports. This insight is particularly relevant in light of changes in European Union (EU) regulations that may impact assurance trends. Specifically, the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive allows for different options that may be transposed differently by EU member states. The study thus has valuable implications regarding the future regulatory environment in many contexts.
{"title":"Sustainability reporting assurance: Knowledge, lags, levels, and providers in leading global companies","authors":"Viviana Paola Delgado Sánchez , Ana Zorio-Grima , Paloma Merello","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100899","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100899","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the factors influencing the adoption of assurance practices in sustainability reporting among leading companies across 42 countries from 2019 to 2022. Using panel data models, it examines the assurance lag, duality between the choice of audit firm and assuror for financial and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) assurance, and level of assurance (reasonable vs. limited). The results indicate that auditor–assuror duality may reduce the assurance lag through improved consistency and efficiency. However, this choice is not driven by expected benefits such as the inclusion of ESG information in annual reports or a preference for audit firms over consultants as assurors. Additionally, when audit firms follow specific assurance standards, there is evidence of a negative impact on the percentage of ESG information verified at the reasonable assurance level. This apparent negative impact is probably due to conservative approaches and strict methodological requirements. The findings offer insight to support decision-making for companies and regulators in enhancing transparency and trust in sustainability reports. This insight is particularly relevant in light of changes in European Union (EU) regulations that may impact assurance trends. Specifically, the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive allows for different options that may be transposed differently by EU member states. The study thus has valuable implications regarding the future regulatory environment in many contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"12 ","pages":"Article 100899"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145599056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-25DOI: 10.1016/j.jik.2025.100898
Giorgio Mion, Angelo Bonfanti, Vania Vigolo, Veronica De Crescenzo
This study investigates how entrepreneurship education delivered through school cooperatives can reduce early school dropout rates and prevent the NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) phenomenon. Drawing on social capital theory, we address the following research questions: (1) What benefits do school cooperatives provide to young people involved in entrepreneurship education activities?; (2) What factors create a favorable setting for developing entrepreneurship education that can reduce the NEET phenomenon?; and (3) What is the role of local actors in promoting entrepreneurship education to contribute to transforming NEET young people into EET (in Education, Employment, or Training) people? We analyze a case in Italy with pupils aged 8–13. Data was collected from 16 in-depth interviews with educators, teachers, and social enterprise managers. We then employed reflexive thematic analysis and social network analysis to examine benefits, enabling conditions, and relationships among actors. We identify six enabling factors of entrepreneurship education. Teachers operate as brokers, linking schools, social enterprises, and community partners. School governance sustains strong ties and proximity. Institutional support, partnerships with municipalities, nonprofits, and firms, and alignment with local labor market opportunities further reinforce the educational ecosystem. We find that school cooperatives develop both bonding social capital (trust and belonging) and bridging social capital (networks and resources) that foster engagement, skills development, and pathways toward EET. The study concludes that entrepreneurship education grounded in school cooperatives mobilizes local networks to combat the risk of NEET and suggests practical priorities, including strengthening teacher brokerage and governance capacity, formalizing community partnerships, and designing education programs that cultivate both bonding and bridging social capital.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-25DOI: 10.1016/j.jik.2025.100893
Zheng Liya , Chi-Wei Su , Salim Baz , Ziru Xue
The environmental sustainability of BRICS nations is connected with green finance and national environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. However, the fundamental mechanisms that regulate this integration have not been thoroughly examined at a macro level. In a period marked by the continuous war against climate change, it is vital to grasp this process to construct a sustainable economic model consistent with developmental aims and ecological responsibilities. By utilizing FMOLS and CCR estimating techniques, this research examines data from 1998 to 2022 to estimate the influence of green finance and national ESG performance on environmental sustainability. It also explores the link between green finance and national ESG performance among the BRICS nations. Additionally, by employing a moderating effect model, the research evaluates the influence of national ESG performance on the link between green finance and environmental sustainability. The results imply that green finance and national ESG performance significantly help to increase environmental sustainability. The research also demonstrates that green finance is crucial in boosting national ESG performance. In addition, the link between green finance and environmental sustainability is significantly moderated by national ESG performance, which also shows the possibility of greenwashing due to possible conflicts of interest between principal and agent. The results of the robustness testing through DOLS and DK standard error estimate techniques are similarly compatible with the baseline findings. Importantly, this research provides fresh insights into the dynamic linkages among green finance, national ESG performance, and environmental sustainability, offering strategic implications that enable governments, investors, lenders, enterprises, and regulators to make informed decisions.
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