Research Article

The Impact of Green Organizational Identity on Green Competitive Advantage: The Role of Green Ambidexterity Innovation and Organizational Flexibility

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Part one: Green organizational identity
1The top managers, middle managers, and employees of your company have a strong sense of responsibility for their environmental goals12345
2The top managers, middle managers, and employees of your company have made remarkable achievements in environmental protection12345
3The top managers, middle managers, and employees of your company understand the traditional culture of environmental protection12345
4The top managers, middle managers, and employees of your company are actively involved in environmental protection activities12345

Part two: Green ambidexterity innovation
Part two: Green innovation
Exploitative Green Innovation (GEI)
1Your company can provide improved environmental products/services in the existing market12345
2Your company supplies existing environmental products/services12345
3Your company strives to improve the quality of supply of environmentally friendly products/services12345
4Your company obtains the environmental protection management information periodically to supply the better products12345
5Your company expands its existing market by maximizing economies of scale12345

Exploratory Green Innovation (GER)
1Your company periodically explores new customer groups12345
2Your company seeks for new distribution channels periodically12345
3Your company is experimenting with new eco-friendly products/services in the local market12345
4Your company is actively developing new environmentally friendly products/services12345
5Your company recognizes that customers have advanced environmental needs12345

Part three: Green competitive advantage
1Compared with the main competitors, your company has a low-cost competitive advantage in environmental protection12345
2The quality of your green products/services is better than that of your major competitors12345
3Compared with your major competitors, your company is more capable in environmental development and investment12345
4Your company is more capable in environmental management than your main competitors12345
5Your company’s green products/services are more profitable than your major competitors12345
6Your company’s green products/services grow faster than your major competitors12345

Part four: Organizational flexibility
Resource flexibility
1Your company’s resources have a wide area of applications12345
2Your company can easily find new uses for resources12345
3The difficulty and cost of converting from one resource to another is low12345
4It takes a short time for your company to move from one resource to another12345

Capability Flexibility
1Your company often finds new uses/new combinations of existing resources within the company12345
2Your company often finds new uses/new combinations of external resources12345
3Your company can quickly arrange resources through the system within the enterprise and apply them to the target product12345
4Your company can profit from changing environmental12345