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The rising importance of sustainability in strategic management has led to a greater emphasis on organizational mechanisms that facilitate organizational success in sustainability. While research has separately considered the impact of Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) and Technological Innovation on organizational success in sustainability, there is limited research that links these complementary organizational capabilities to organizational success in sustainability. To this end, this review proposes a moderated mediation model in which Organizational Environmental Culture (OEC) acts as the organizational mechanism that transforms green capabilities to organizational success in sustainability. In contrast, Top Management Support (TMS) acts as the moderator that reinforces this capability transformation. According to the Resource-Based View Theory, Stakeholder Theory, and Upper Echelons Theory, GHRM is considered a source of green human capital, and Technological Innovation is considered a source of eco-efficient operational capacity. However, these organizational capabilities are considered to be translated to organizational success in sustainability only if they are institutionalized in organizational culture in the form of environmental values, norms, and practices. By considering environmental culture not only as a contextual factor but also as a capability transformation factor and incorporating TMS as a moderator that reinforces this capability transformation process, this review contributes to the sustainability and strategic management literatures in that it bridges the fragmented research on GHRM and Technological Innovation to organizational success in sustainability.
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