Harnessing green innovation via green transformational leadership in Italian luxury hotels: Key strategic takeaways

Abstract

The increasing focus on environmental issues has resulted in the widespread acceptance and prominence of green innovation. However, existing literature on hotel management has overlooked exploring the key factors that drive green innovation specifically through the mediating mechanisms of green dynamic capability (GDC) and green environmental orientation (GEO). To fill the gap in the existing hospitality literature this study utilized the natural resource-based view (NRBV) to investigate the correlation between green transformational leadership (GTL) and green innovation (GI). Two research studies were carried out in Italian luxury hotels to assess the efficacy of the theoretical framework. The research findings emphasize that the enhancement of a hotel’s GDC and GEO can be facilitated by providing GTL. This in turn may lead to the enhancement of GI which improves the CA and GP of a hotel.