Nexus between Green Intellectual Capital and Organizational Learning Capability. Evidence from Malaysian Manufacturing Sector

Abstract

The environmental degradation have been concerned by many previous scholars claimed that the high demand for sustainable practices particularly in manufacturing sector due to the large amount and wide distribution of energy consumption. It is an urgent task for organizations to implement the innovation to cope with this issue. Apart from that, most scholars have suggested various possible solutions. Regrettably, very few studies have examined the importance of intellectual capital related to green protection known as green intellectual capital to achieve better performance. Furthermore, as the manufacturing is the main sector that focus on the transformation of low-carbon economy required organizations to keep themselves learned and updated about their business challenges. In spite of that, the role of management that facilitate learning to each member which under the concept of organizational learning capability is very important to obtain superior performance. Data were gathered from 168 manufacturing SMEs in Malaysia, and analysed using Partial Least Square approach. Results show that green relational capital has positive relationship with organizational learning capability while green human capital and green structural did not. Finally, the implications, limitations and future studies are discussed.