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Are green HRM Practices enough to build successful green ventures interlinked with innovation and knowledge-sharing behavior? Case of China

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Green practices are now treated as an essential component of organizational element and firms are now exploring ways to incorporate new growth strategies that ensure environmentally friendly methods. The present study focuses on manufacturing industry in China and identify that green HRM practices influence eco-innovation and organization’s knowledge-sharing culture. The study also aims to identify whether eco-innovation and knowledge-sharing culture help to build successful green venture and provide indirect path to green HRM and green ventures. An adopted survey was used to collect data from manufacturing employees and SPSS-AMOS is employed to assess the model reliability and proposed hypotheses. Study outcomes reveal that green HRM practices increase knowledge-sharing behavior and promote green innovation. Findings also expose that eco-innovation and knowledge-sharing behavior are potential mediator, hence provide an indirect path between green HRM practices and green ventures. Results confirm that essentiality of green HRM in order to promote knowledge-sharing behavior among employees through which environmental commitment can be fulfilled by organizations, further leading to successful green venture.

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This research is partly funded by Van Lang University, Vietnam.This research is partly funded by University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH), Vietnam. This research is partially funded by Guangdong Province 2022 Philosophy and Social Sciences Planning Project (GD22XGL41, GD22XGL42); Guangdong Province 2021 Philosophy and Social Sciences Planning Project (GD21CGL07).

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  1. School of Management, Guangdong University of Science and Technology, Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China

    Wang Jinliang

  2. Faculty of Business, City University of Macau, Taipa, Macau

    Wang Jinliang

  3. Department of Business Administration, Asia University, 500, Lioufeng Rd., Wufeng, Taichung, 41354, Taiwan

    Massoud Moslehpour

  4. Department of Management, California State University, San Bernardino, 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA, 92407, USA

    Massoud Moslehpour

  5. School of Public Finance, College of Economics, Law and Government, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Trung Kien Tran & Gia Luat Diep

  6. Department of Public Administration, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan

    Bushra Tufail

  7. Faculty of Finance and Banking, Van Lang University, 69/68 Dang Thuy Tram Street, Ward 13, Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Hoang Nguyen Tien

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Wang Jinliang: conceptualization, writing—original draft. Massoud Moslehpour: methodology. Trung Kien Tran: Software. Gia Luat Diep: visualization. Hoang Nguyen Tien: supervision. Bushra Tufail: data curation and editing.

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Jinliang, W., Moslehpour, M., Tran, T.K. et al. Are green HRM Practices enough to build successful green ventures interlinked with innovation and knowledge-sharing behavior? Case of China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 97629–97644 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-29018-2

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