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In 2010, the Chinese government officially launched the Low-carbon city pilot policy (LCPP) to promote the construction of ecological civilization and drive green and low-carbon development. In this context, this paper examined the impact of the LCPP on the urban carbon productivity and its heterogeneity, using the difference-in-difference (DID) model with the panel data from 260 Chinese cities during the period from 2006 to 2019. The findings indicate that LCPP has exerted a long-term and significantly positive impact on the improvement of urban carbon productivity. Furthermore, this paper innovatively introduces the urban green competitiveness for mechanism analysis. The findings of mechanism test indicate that LCPP improves urban carbon productivity by enhancing the green competitiveness of pilot cities. Based on the above research results, this paper suggests that the government should further expand the scope of the pilot and strengthen the policy guidance. In particular, it is imperative for governments pay attention to the regional heterogeneity, formulate appropriate complementary measures and focus on providing long-term support for the low-carbon transition of cities.

This study tests the impact of green technology innovation (GTI) from green innovation output (GTIO) and green innovation efficiency (GTIE) on green competitiveness (GTFP) and the non-linear moderating effect of environmental regulation (ERI) using a sample of 156 listed enterprises in heavily polluting manufacturing industries from 2016 to 2021. Results show that GTIO promotes GTFP, but GTIE inhibits GTFP. ERI has a significant “U-shaped” moderating effect between GTI and GTFP. Non-state-owned enterprises have relatively weak GTI ability but stronger sensitivity to ERI. Enterprises with high market concentration have outstanding GTI strength and can form positive interactions with ERI. High GTFP enterprises’ GTI has a more positive impact on GTFP, but the ERI is better coupled with GTIO in low GTFP enterprises. Our findings imply that policymakers should formulate appropriate environmental policies for enterprises in different situations, while enterprises should respond positively to ERI through multiple channels to enhance green competitiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Modern conditions for transforming the business environment in the context of implementing sustainable development goals, decarbonising the economy, and ensuring climate neutrality determine the need to implement effective measures at the level of individual enterprises. External challenges determine the urgency of strengthening enterprises' green competitive advantages and forming an integral level of green competitiveness. The paper offers a methodological basis for the long-term forecasting of enterprises' green competitiveness levels. The key object of the research is a set of companies representing the machine building, agriculture, and food industries, as strategic branches of Ukraine's economy. The period of 2020-2028 was chosen as the interval for foresight. The application of autoregressive integrated ARIMA modelling by means of the non-linear least squares method made it possible to determine transformation vectors, marketing determinants, and target orientations for increasing the integral level of green competitiveness. The assessment of the results showed that the leading enterprises in the optimistic scenario are PJSC "SVF Agrotron" (agro-industrial complex), where the predictive value of green competitiveness is 0.84; PJSC "Wimm-Bill-Dunn Ukraine" (food industry), for which the predictive value is 0.73; and PJSC "Motor Sich" (mechanical engineering), for which the predictive value of green competitiveness is 0.74. The results of the evaluation revealed the leading enterprises according to the optimistic scenario for the agro-industrial complex, food industry, and mechanical engineering. The research substantiates the claim that the priorities of the strategy for increasing the level of green competitiveness and the relevant determinants of its implementation should be determined considering the transformation scenarios of its level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the scientific concept of city green competitiveness, an integrated evaluation indicator system was established to use the entropy method in order to measure the green competitiveness index of 78 cities surrounding the Yellow River (YR) from 2006 to 2020. Further, the spatio–temporal features and drivers of city green competitiveness were analyzed using various methods. The research found the following: (1) Although the green competitiveness of cities surrounding the YR has been growing steadily, the overall level is not high. (2) The green competitiveness of cities surrounding the YR can be spatially characterized as "downstream > midstream > upstream"; the absolute and relative differences between cities are both increasing, and overall differences stem mainly from the hypervariable density. (3) The positive spatial correlation between the green competitiveness of cities surrounding the YR is significant, with the "cold spot" in southeastern Gansu and the "hot spot" in the Shandong Peninsular city cluster. (4) The level of city infrastructure construction, the level of urbanization, and science and technology innovation are the main drivers of the green competitiveness of cities surrounding the YR. In addition, the interaction forces of each factor were found to be much stronger than the effects of individual factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The EU climate policy affects the competitiveness of both the European Union (EU) as a whole and individual member states, leading countries to search for new knowledge to increase their national competitiveness. However, there has been little empirical research about the implementation of green competitive strategies in the common European space from different countries' perspectives. Using the Porter Hypothesis and system theory, this paper explores national competitive strategies that align with climate neutrality in the EU. We used index construction, clusterization, principal components analysis and trajectories change analysis to analyze data from the 24 EU countries from a 10-year period (2012–2021). The main findings reveal three green competitiveness profiles and five green competitiveness progress strategies in the EU. We found that EU countries have different strategies and conditions in terms of their transition towards climate neutrality and competitiveness, which ultimately lead to different rates of progress. Our results provide an initial basis for the development of nation-specific policies to achieve green competitiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Global population growth, advancement of technological innovations, features of economic development, total digitization of production, and increase of consumption determine the necessity of forming companies' green competitive advantages. In order to create a terminological basis and research the main trends in the development of the concept of "green competitiveness of businesses" there was carried out a bibliometric analysis using the VOSViewer software 1.6.13 and Scopus Tools Analysis. A sample of 54,753 relevant scientific publications indexed by Scopus scientometric databases was generated for the period of 1991–2021. The results of the bibliometric analysis made it possible to determine the basic prerequisites and the main stages of forming green competitive advantages: the first is related to the traditional understanding of competitiveness, its global measurement, the development of the processes of greening economic activity; the second is related to the greening of business activities and the development of the green economy; the third is related to the analysis of competitiveness in the context of green marketing strategies; the fourth is related to shaping the concept of green competitiveness directly. The conducted research formed a theoretical basis for clarifying the content of the concept of green competitiveness as an ability of an enterprise to form and effectively use green competitive advantages, their convergent and complementary effects, which ensure the sustainable development of enterprises, the expansion of the enterprise's competitive position on the market, the increase of investment attractiveness and capitalization, and the formation of an environmental brand.

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Increasingly serious environmental problems are forcing many industries to gradually turn to green development, and green competitiveness has become the vision of policymakers and industry practitioners. The impact of the development of the logistics industry on the environment cannot be ignored, but the promotion path of its green competitiveness has not been fully studied. Based on Porter's diamond model, this study uses fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to explore the condition configuration of the logistics industry in 30 provincial regions in mainland China to enhance green competitiveness and effectively combine theory with practice. Factors considered include logistics technology innovation ability, logistics market demand, proportion of tertiary industry, management level of logistics enterprises, environmental regulation, and the internet. The results show that the green competitiveness of the logistics industry is influenced by many factors and cannot be sufficiently explained by a single factor. The findings point to three paths with equal authenticity to improve the green competitiveness of the logistics industry. By comparing the same types of high configuration and low configuration, this study finds that environmental regulation is an important external driving force for regions with low added value of output products, and for regions with certain geographical advantages and numerous logistics enterprises, in addition to the management level of logistics enterprises, support from the internet is also particularly important in improving the green competitiveness of logistics. These findings can provide a practical reference for the promotion of green competitiveness in the logistics industry in different regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article deals with green competitiveness advantages for companies. The green competitive development is considered to be an essential condition to provide a high level of sustainable social and economic development. The authors systematized scientific investigation of the key determinants of the green competitiveness according to the marketing, technological, innovative, communicative, stakeholders, qualitative, level, fiscal and ethic approaches. The primary purpose of the study is to analyse the preconditions for promotion the green competitiveness of enterprises and analyse the influence of the using marketing tools (ensuring the proper quality (environmental) of green goods and services, differentiation of pricing policy, creation of green commercial networks and platforms, promotion of eco-goods and green activity, interaction with the consumers) on a company’s descriptive variables (market segment (sales volumes), green image, efficiency of companies activity, products competitiveness). The object of study is the companies from the food industry, agriculture, machinery-producing industry and production of building materials. The quantitative study employed a sample of 110 companies, for testing each competitive advantage dimension against the established green marketing tools and company descriptive variables using the method of logistic regressions. The obtained results showed the level of integration mix marketing tools for supporting the green competitive advantages. The highest level of integration is in the food industry, the lowest level - in the production of building materials. Provided evaluation gives the opportunity to suggest the system of marketing instruments for forming and strengthening the company’s green competitive advantages.

The article summarizes the arguments and counter-arguments within the scientific discussion on the impact of labor resources on the level of green competitiveness of enterprises. The main purpose of the study is to identify key aspects of the formation of environmentally-oriented labor resources and analysis of the impact of global trends on the level of green competitiveness of enterprises. Systematization of literature sources and approaches to solving the problem of determining the level of impact of labor resources on green competitiveness of enterprises showed that today publishing activity and interest in this topic is growing and there is a significant correlation between effective corporate management of labor and increasing green competitiveness. The urgency of solving this scientific problem is that today there are no generally accepted methods for calculating the level of green competitiveness of the enterprise, and the complication for the study of this topic is to obtain accurate information on quality management results, because often it is the decision of managers are not interested in providing completely transparent information. The study of the impact of labor resources on the green competitiveness of enterprises in the article is carried out in the following logical sequence: systematization of literature sources, research dynamics of search queries on key terms “green competitiveness” and “labor resources” in Google search, bibliometric analysis on key terms “green competitiveness” and “labor resources”. The methodological tools of the study were the methods of logical generalization, comparative analysis and trend-bibliometric analysis - to identify patterns of influence of labor resources on the green competitiveness of enterprises. VOSViewer version 1.6.10 toolkit was used for bibliometric analysis, Google Trends was used for trend analysis, and the years from 2004 to 2020 were selected as the research period. The object of the study is a sample of 873 publications and 9480 search queries for such keywords as “green competitiveness” and “labor resources” based on scientometric databases Scopus and Web of Science, as well as Google Trends tools. The study theoretically proves the impact of strategic human resource management on the level of green competitiveness of the enterprise. The results of the study can be useful for further analytical analysis of the impact of human resources on the green competitiveness of the enterprise.

For enterprises whose products need to be frozen and refrigerated transportation, the selection of green cold chain logistics service providers is one of the indispensable links, cold chain logistics service providers are involved in many different levels, so how to reasonably select cold chain logistics service providers is particularly critical. In this paper, the evaluation criteria system of green cold chain logistics service providers is established from five dimensions: cold chain logistics service quality, cold chain logistics service cost, cold chain logistics service capability, cold chain logistics green competitiveness and cold chain logistics enterprise management status. Combined weighting method based on minimum information discrimination principle, including BWM method and CRITIC method to determine comprehensive weight, avoids the limitation of single weighting method to determine index weight. Aiming at the randomness and fuzziness in the evaluation process of green cold chain logistics providers, a cloud model evaluation method of cold chain logistics providers is proposed. The case study shows that the proposed combined weighting method overcomes the one-sidedness of the single weighting method and improves the rationality of the weights. The cloud model evaluation method of cold chain logistics suppliers proposed in this paper is helpful to deal with the randomness and fuzziness in the process of weight combination, and improve the effectiveness and scientific rationality of the weight combination results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Research background: Many scientists have researched the economic competitiveness of agriculture. At the same time, considerably less attention is paid to the so-called green competitiveness. Considering a global trend searching for solutions to reduce the environmental impact of the agricultural sector, it seems reasonable to explore the overlap between economic competitiveness and green competitiveness. Purpose of the article: This study aims to answer the following questions: What is the level of economic and green competitiveness of agriculture in respective countries? What is the level of the comprehensive competitiveness of agriculture in EU member states? Do the economic competitiveness outcomes of respective countries coincide with their green competitiveness rankings? Methods: Taxonomic methods were applied to design synthetic indices of economic, green and comprehensive competitiveness of 27 member states of the European Union, based on multicriteria sets of specific indicators from 2018. Findings & value added: The results of analyses imply that, in general, the level of green competitiveness of agriculture is higher than the level of its economic competitiveness in EU member states. Simultaneously, the developed rankings show that respective countries' economic and green competitiveness are not linked. In other words, economic competitiveness outcomes do not match green competitiveness outcomes for EU agriculture. This work is a genuine contribution to studies on the methods for measuring and evaluating the competitiveness of agriculture as it designs separate synthetic measures for economic and green competitiveness and confronts both types of competitiveness in EU member states. The research findings for the first time provide clear answers to questions about the mutual relationship between economic and green competitiveness in agriculture. Furthermore, an added value of this study is that it introduces and attempts to define the notion of green competitiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Forming a strong brand is essential for national development. The country's brand gives the direction for its long-term economic growth, contributes to increment in assets value and the competitive advantages, attracts more investments, tourists, etc. In the view of growing concern on climate change, environmental protection issues boost its influence on worldwide decision-making processes. In turn, the scientific community has more decisive in their statement to create a unique and robust country's brand considering the green perspectives. However, the literature review results showed that the scholars investigate the green branding, mainly on the product or corporate level. Therefore, this study aims to assess how well the existing literature on country branding is explored from the perspective of green development. The research questions are as follows: 1) What are the main research directions in the scientific literature concerning the country's green branding? 2) How far has the country's green brand bee n investigated? 3) What research gap should be covered in the future? This study operated with the scientific documents published in the highly ranked scientific journals indexed in the Scopus database to answer the research questions. The study period covered 2000-2022 (until April 2022). The search for relevant publications was run by the keyword combinations "green brand", "country brand", and "nation brand" in the documents' titles, keywords, and abstracts. The boolean operator' OR' was used to include the papers specified at least with one keyword. The obtained results revealed 545 papers on the investigated topic (225 publications on green branding and 320 publications on country/nation branding). In the frame of investigation, the authors applied Scopus analytical tools to detect the publication dynamic of a designed sample of documents, identify the most engaged authors, and assess the contributions of the affiliations and countries. To build the networks of scientific collaboration worldwide and detect the main research streams in studies on country/nation green brands, the authors used the method of the low-dimensional visualization. This study selected the keywords with the greatest total link strengths based on the calculation of the total link strengths of the co-occurrence's links with other keywords. The counting method was full counting. The findings of bibliometric analysis confirmed that the studies on green branding mainly address the corporate level. The green brand concept is investigated mostly regarding green brand attachment, green brand attitude, green brand image, green brand love, green brand trust, green loyalty, green satisfaction, green perceived risks, value, and environmental sustainability. Therefore, it indicates the necessity to expand research on the national level. The main limitation of this study is operating with publications retrieved only from the Scopus database. However, the findings could be value-added for scholars investigating the country's green brand issues. The authors consider the obtained results to be a starting point for designing the country's green brand model and its assessment in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The transition away from a fossil-fuel powered economy towards a cleaner production system will create winners and losers in the global trade system. We compile a list of ‘brown’ traded products whose use is highly likely to decline if the world is to mitigate climate change, and explore which countries are most at risk of seeing their productive capabilities ‘stranded’. Using methods from economic geography and complexity, we develop novel measures of transition risk that capture the extent to which countries’ export profiles are locked-in to brown products. We show that countries exporting a high number of brown products, especially technologically sophisticated ones, could find it relatively easy to transition. Conversely, countries with exports highly concentrated in a few, low-complexity brown products have much fewer nearby diversification opportunities. Our results suggest that export complexity and diversity play a key role in determining transition risk. Path-breaking diversification strategies are needed to prevent nations from becoming stranded.

The issue of stakeholder activity and collaboration for developing and promoting the green competitiveness of enterprises are nowadays relevant and play a significant role in creating competitive advantages. Systematization literary sources prove that economic activity is characterizing by specific relationships between a wide set of stakeholders, the effective communicative system can bring potential benefits to all parties and stakeholders have specific expectations regarding various aspects of the enterprises' operation: organizational, economic, social, environmental etc. The main objective of the article is creating the preconditions for building the stakeholder communication system for promoting the green competitiveness of the company and assessing by stakeholders the results of companies' activity. The paper used scientific methods are based on logical generalization and scientific abstraction for systematizing the prerequisites for the formation of a system of communications of green competitive stakeholders; typology of green competitiveness stakeholders; formal-logical for determining the determinants and principles of effective collaboration of stakeholders of green competitiveness. For investigating the stakeholders' assessment of the green competitiveness effects was undertaken Multidimensional scaling analysis and were estimated five outcome dimensions: consumer satisfaction in green goods; efficiency of green goods production; green goods quality and cleaner production; institutional partnership; community impact. For scaling responses in survey research was used a seven-point psychometric Likert scale. A general questioning is provided for five countries: Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Czech Republic, and include the results of the survey the 1236 stakeholders. The results of the assessment showed that in all groups (internal and external) of stakeholder, the employees assessed results of the environmental strategies as «success» - 22,3% and community from another group - 7,45%. The stakeholder opinion is the same. That is evidence that the processes of greening stakeholder's communication are becoming wider and involve more participants. The result of the research creates the background for improving the system of green competitiveness stakeholder interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Capital and energy are essential input factors in the production and operation of firms, and they are closely interconnected. Nudging firms to improve energy performance during capital investment is crucial for attaining green competitiveness. Nonetheless, little is known about how capital-biased tax incentives affect firm energy performance in the process of encouraging firms to update or expand fixed assets. To fill this critical gap, this paper leverages the 2014 and 2015 accelerated depreciation policy for fixed assets as quasi-natural experiments to investigate the impact of capital-biased tax incentives on firm energy intensity. This study uses information from a unique dataset of Chinese firms, and the staggered difference-in-difference strategy is constructed to address identification challenges. The findings of this paper are as follows: (1) The accelerated depreciation policy for fixed assets significantly increases firm energy intensity by approximately 11.2%. A series of validations reinforce the robustness of this result. (2) Restructuring energy use and the factor substitution of energy for labour are the main channels through which the accelerated depreciation policy for fixed assets increases firm energy intensity. (3) The accelerated depreciation policy for fixed assets has a more remarkable effect on the energy intensity enhancement of small-scale firms, capital-intensive firms, and firms in energy-endowed regions. These conclusions support shaping policy options moderately by coordinating tax incentives and government regulation as key factors in promoting sustainable firm development. Overall, this research provides empirical evidence regarding the micro-environmental consequences of capital-biased tax incentives and offers valuable insights for enhancing corporate energy performance. • The staggered difference-in-difference method is employed in this paper. • This paper treats the 2014 and 2015 ADPFA as quasi-natural experiments. • ADPFA significantly increases firm energy intensity by about 11.2%. • Energy restructuring and factor substitution of energy for labor are main channels. • Firm and regional heterogeneity is further considered in the analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As “green” and “sustainable” become the new themes of regional economic development, green competitiveness will undoubtedly become a new engine for regions to solve environmental, resource use, and other global problems to fit the new development themes. Unfortunately, the performance of regional green competitiveness is not always satisfactory due to various shortcomings. In this study, we abandoned the conventional research approach that directly explores the factors that promote regional green competitiveness and analyzed, instead, the obstacles to green competitiveness among provinces in China. The barrier degree was calculated for each obstacle using a catastrophe progression method and fuzzy rough set. Results showed that (a) resource and environmental problems have become increasingly prominent and have been the most common obstacles to promoting green competitiveness of provinces in China and (b) the obstacles to improving regional green competitiveness showed spatial differences and peculiarity according to the barrier degree. The outcome of the study can help policy makers to better understand and prioritize implementation strategies to develop effective action and policy interventions toward more successful construction of regional green competitiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The meaning of regional competitiveness has been changed recently to better fit the new development theme of “green” and “sustainable”. Correspondingly, the traditional regional competitiveness evaluation system, which pays too much attention to economic indicators, has not been able to fully evaluate regional green competitiveness. Based on the meaning of regional green competitiveness, we used correlation analysis, fuzzy rough set and entropy weight methods to select and analyze 21 indicators and develop a regional green competitiveness index. Indicators included measures of natural resources competitiveness, ecological environment competitiveness, energy consumption and energy saving competitiveness, economic and social sustainable competitiveness as well as human health competitiveness. Based on the green competitiveness index, we divided the green competitiveness spectrum into three levels (light green, medium green and dark green) to explore changes of the index in 30 provinces of China during the period 2004–2014. Results showed that ecological environment competitiveness and sustainable competitiveness of economy and society are two key factors that influence the green competitiveness of provinces in China. Green competitiveness also showed spatial differences, varying from high to low in a westerly direction from the eastern region, central region, northeast region and western region. Notably, the green competitiveness level of more than half of the provinces changed markedly, proving that the green competitiveness of the provinces can develop through leap-style changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Purpose: More and more executives of automobileindustry in China start to recognize the concept of green competitiveness recently. However, relatively less research attention has been devoted to the consideration of measurement. This paper aims to find empirical approach to quantify green competitiveness for automotive enterprises. The connotation of green competitiveness is explored and one suite of evaluation index system has been proposed with four dimensions including environmental, resource, capability and knowledge.Design/methodology/approach: By introducing the factor analysis method, green competitiveness has been measured through an empirical analysis of 24 automotive enterprises within China.Findings: The results indicate that those elements, such as enterprise resource possession and utilization; environment, responsibility and knowledge; profitability; management efficiency, have significant effect on the green competitiveness for automotive enterprises. The further analysis also unveils the advantages and disadvantages of green competitiveness for each company and the direction for improvement.Research limitations/implications: Guide regulators and managers of automobile industry to take some measures to enhance their green competitive advantage.Practical implications: Provide practical methods to measure green competitiveness for automotive enterprises.Originality/value: This paper proposes an evaluation index system of green competitiveness for automotive enterprises. The suggestions of our research will be beneficial to enterprise executives and industry regulators.

The advent of global awareness of sustainable development resulted in consumer demand for low-carbon electronic products. Thus, semiconductor industry has to develop additional core competencies in that direction to remain competitive. The present study aims to establish a parametric-based tool that can identify key parameters of the complicated manufacturing processes in the semiconductor industry to simplify the calculation of the carbon footprint of products (CFP). Six regression models for CFP were developed by applying process and statistical analyses on 7114 wafer products. Results indicate that these regression models with the three key parameters (mask layer, metal layer, and technology node) can effectively predict the CFP of wafer with six different function types because the adjusted R of all regression models was >0.5. Moreover, the mask layer could be the most important parameter for predicting CFP of wafer because of its higher standardized coefficients ( β) in each regression model. This methodology reduces the time, cost, and information requirements of the product in traditional life cycle assessment. The proposed method introduces criteria for low-carbon decision making in the semiconductor sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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With a growing focus among firms globally on saving energy and increasing environmental awareness, it is critical to explore the implementation of corporate greening in subsidiaries of multinational companies. Multinational companies need to respond simultaneously to institutional requirements and pressures for corporate greening. In this study we utilized the natural-resource-based view to investigate how green leadership can enhance green competitiveness. Based on a quantitative analysis of 212 subsidiaries of multinational companies in China, we found that green leadership positively influences green competitiveness. Further, this relationship was found to be stronger in firms with higher (more active) levels of institutional responsiveness. We highlight practical implications and make suggestions for theoretical development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The omnichannel approach to forming marketing strategies for the development of the green competitiveness of enterprises is seen as a process for the inseparable interaction of marketing-mix elements that are aimed at promoting green competitiveness. This approach integrates traditional and digital marketing communication channels and provides consideration for stakeholder interests. The effectiveness of applying the omnichannel approach to the formation of marketing strategies to develop the green competitiveness of enterprises depends on a set of marketing communication channels, which, in various combinations, can increase or decrease the level of companies' green competitiveness. For that purpose, this paper proposes a scientific approach to identifying the quality parameters of marketing communication channels, which involves testing the hypothesis that statistically significant relationships exist between their quality parameters and the levels of green competitiveness. The objects analyzed in the paper comprise large Ukrainian production companies that are part of the agro-industrial, mechanical engineering, and food industries, and that work in both the local and international markets. According to the results of the calculations, four relevant parameters were identified for determining the quality of the marketing communication channels: the speed of loading pages, the failure rate, image, and remarketing activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Environmental issues are a significant field in both research and practice. Manufacturing enterprises are adopting sustainable initiatives to achieve efficient resource usage, emissions reduction, energy utilization reduction, and improve waste management. Therefore, drawing on ecological modernization theory (EMT) and knowledge-based theory (KBT), this study proposes a comprehensive framework for the relationships among environmental innovation strategy (EIS), green knowledge sharing (GKS), organizational green learning (OGL), and green competitiveness (GC), through literature review; after, a survey questionnaire method was employed, and multiple-regression method was used for the analysis. The empirical results show that environmental innovation strategy has a positive effect on green competitiveness; the green knowledge sharing and organizational green learning chain mediates the relationship between environmental innovation strategy and green competitiveness. The results further reveal that green knowledge sharing and organizational green learning are crucial paths for manufacturing enterprises to enhance green competitiveness in implementing their environmental innovation strategies. This study extends previous research by emphasizing the importance of environmental innovation strategy in the context of sustainable development, and enriches existing research related to green competitiveness.