{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,6]],"date-time":"2026-10-06T05:51:24Z","timestamp":1791265884467,"version":"4.1.0"},"reference-count":54,"publisher":"Emerald","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":[],"abstract":"<jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Purpose<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study aims to examine whether and how firm-level artificial intelligence (AI) adoption promotes green collaborative innovation. It focuses on two knowledge-based capability channels, namely, knowledge learning capability and green governance capability, and investigates the organizational and institutional conditions under which the innovation effect of AI varies.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study uses panel data on Chinese A-share listed firms from 2012 to 2023. AI adoption is measured by per-capita machinery and equipment book value, and green collaborative innovation by jointly filed green patents. The analysis applies two-way fixed-effects models, robustness tests, instrumental-variable estimation and propensity-score matching.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Findings<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>AI adoption significantly promotes green collaborative innovation in both invention and utility model patents, and the results remain robust across multiple tests. It strengthens knowledge learning and governance capabilities, while internal green strategy and external media coverage amplify its effect. The effect is stronger among firms with broader patent knowledge bases, high-technology and heavily polluting firms, and those located in cities with better digital infrastructure.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Originality\/value<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study shifts attention from AI as an efficiency-enhancing technology to its role in reshaping firm knowledge processes. It identifies knowledge learning capability and green governance capability as two pathways through which AI supports green collaborative innovation, and uses knowledge-distance governability to explain how strategic commitment, media scrutiny, knowledge endowments, industry characteristics and digital infrastructure shape AI\u2019s innovation returns. Using knowledge-distance governability, this study explains how AI makes distant knowledge more visible, interpretable and applicable to green innovation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/jkm-04-2026-0712","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,6]],"date-time":"2026-10-06T04:51:01Z","timestamp":1791262261000},"page":"1-20","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Artificial intelligence adoption and green collaborative innovation: knowledge-based channels and governance conditions"],"prefix":"10.1108","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0000-7983-9180","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Yang","family":"Xu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Zhejiang Wanli University School of Logistics and E-Commerce, , Ningbo, ; Modern Port Service Industry and Creative Culture Research Center of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Wanli University, Ningbo, China and Ningbo Digital-Intelligence Supply Chain Innovation Research Institute, Zhejiang Wanli University, Ningbo, China","place":["China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Qilong","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Zhongyuan Institute of Science and Technology School of Information Engineering, , Zhengzhou,","place":["China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Qi","family":"Fan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Zhejiang Shuren University School of Economics and Management, , Hangzhou,","place":["China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0003-2445-5085","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Xuanming","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of International Business and Economics School of Insurance and Economics, , Beijing,","place":["China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"140","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,7]]},"reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"2026100600505898600_ref001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"289","DOI":"10.1108\/JKM-12-2024-1451","article-title":"Moving beyond boundaries: role of coopetition capabilities for disruptive green innovation and sustainable development through knowledge absorptive capacity","volume":"30","author":"Abbas","year":"2026","journal-title":"Journal of Knowledge Management"},{"issue":"4","key":"2026100600505898600_ref002","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1782","DOI":"10.1002\/bse.3219","article-title":"Green human resource management and environmental performance: the role of green innovation and environmental strategy in a developing country","volume":"32","author":"Aftab","year":"2023","journal-title":"Business Strategy and the Environment"},{"issue":"2","key":"2026100600505898600_ref003","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"889","DOI":"10.1093\/qje\/qjae044","article-title":"Generative AI at work","volume":"140","author":"Brynjolfsson","year":"2025","journal-title":"The Quarterly Journal of Economics"},{"issue":"4","key":"2026100600505898600_ref004","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"647","DOI":"10.1007\/s10551-020-04715-x","article-title":"Do boards take environmental, social, and governance issues seriously? Evidence from media coverage and CEO dismissals","volume":"176","author":"Burke","year":"2022","journal-title":"Journal of Business Ethics"},{"issue":"13","key":"2026100600505898600_ref005","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1591","DOI":"10.1002\/smj.2084","article-title":"Where do firms\u2019 recombinant capabilities come from? Intraorganizational networks, knowledge, and firms\u2019 ability to innovate through technological recombination","volume":"34","author":"Carnabuci","year":"2013","journal-title":"Strategic Management Journal"},{"key":"2026100600505898600_ref006","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"104152","DOI":"10.1016\/j.irfa.2025.104152","article-title":"Digital economy, human capital accumulation, and corporate green total factor productivity: based on strategic emerging industries","volume":"103","author":"Chen","year":"2025","journal-title":"International Review of Financial Analysis"},{"issue":"1","key":"2026100600505898600_ref007","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"101706","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jacceco.2024.101706","article-title":"Green innovation and firms\u2019 financial and environmental performance: the roles of pollution prevention versus control","volume":"79","author":"Cheng","year":"2025","journal-title":"Journal of Accounting and Economics"},{"issue":"6","key":"2026100600505898600_ref008","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1523","DOI":"10.1002\/smj.3694","article-title":"How does artificial intelligence improve human decision-making? Evidence from the AI-powered go program","volume":"46","author":"Choi","year":"2025","journal-title":"Strategic Management Journal"},{"key":"2026100600505898600_ref009","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/bse.71281","article-title":"Climate change, strategic orientation, and green innovation: unpacking external and internal drivers in competitive contexts","author":"Ciasullo","year":"2026","journal-title":"Business Strategy and the Environment"},{"issue":"1","key":"2026100600505898600_ref010","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"128","DOI":"10.2307\/2393553","article-title":"Absorptive capacity: a new perspective on learning and innovation","volume":"35","author":"Cohen","year":"1990","journal-title":"Administrative Science Quarterly"},{"issue":"1","key":"2026100600505898600_ref011","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"113","DOI":"10.1108\/JKM-02-2024-0222","article-title":"When knowledge workers meet AI? The double-edged sword effects of AI adoption on innovative work behavior","volume":"29","author":"Dong","year":"2025","journal-title":"Journal of Knowledge Management"},{"issue":"12","key":"2026100600505898600_ref012","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2478","DOI":"10.1002\/smj.3416","article-title":"The knowledge-incentive tradeoff: understanding the relationship between research and development decentralization and innovation","volume":"43","author":"Eklund","year":"2022","journal-title":"Strategic Management Journal"},{"issue":"1","key":"2026100600505898600_ref013","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"117","DOI":"10.1287\/mnsc.47.1.117.10671","article-title":"Recombinant uncertainty in technological search","volume":"47","author":"Fleming","year":"2001","journal-title":"Management Science"},{"issue":"1","key":"2026100600505898600_ref014","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"48","DOI":"10.1111\/jbfa.12802","article-title":"Green media coverage and corporate green innovation","volume":"52","author":"Gao","year":"2025","journal-title":"Journal of Business Finance & Accounting"},{"issue":"5","key":"2026100600505898600_ref015","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"753","DOI":"10.1162\/rest_a_00754","article-title":"Robots at work","volume":"100","author":"Graetz","year":"2018","journal-title":"The Review of Economics and Statistics"},{"issue":"S2","key":"2026100600505898600_ref016","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"109","DOI":"10.1002\/smj.4250171110","article-title":"Toward a knowledge-based theory of the firm","volume":"17","author":"Grant","year":"1996","journal-title":"Strategic Management Journal"},{"key":"2026100600505898600_ref017","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5160","DOI":"10.1109\/TEM.2022.3212793","article-title":"Neighboring knowledge recombination: knowledge relationship intensity, neighboring knowledge concentration, and knowledge impact","volume":"71","author":"Hou","year":"2022","journal-title":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management"},{"key":"2026100600505898600_ref018","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1108\/JKM-03-2025-0422","article-title":"Boosting green collaborative innovation among manufacturing firms with digital technology: the role of knowledge recombinative potential within supply chain network","author":"Huang","year":"2025","journal-title":"Journal of Knowledge Management"},{"issue":"5","key":"2026100600505898600_ref019","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1108\/JKM-05-2025-0672","article-title":"Green supply chain integration and knowledge dynamics: a pathway to incremental and radical green innovation","volume":"30","author":"Javed","year":"2026","journal-title":"Journal of Knowledge Management"},{"issue":"6","key":"2026100600505898600_ref020","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3585","DOI":"10.1002\/mde.3897","article-title":"Boundary spanning strategy and tacit knowledge recombination: analysis of joint-patent networks of patent-intensive firms","volume":"44","author":"Jiang","year":"2023","journal-title":"Managerial and Decision Economics"},{"key":"2026100600505898600_ref021","first-page":"100","article-title":"Mechanism effects and moderating effects in causal inference","volume":"5","author":"Jiang","year":"2022","journal-title":"China Ind Econ"},{"issue":"6","key":"2026100600505898600_ref022","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1183","DOI":"10.2307\/3069433","article-title":"Something old, something new: a longitudinal study of search behavior and new product introduction","volume":"45","author":"Katila","year":"2002","journal-title":"Academy of Management Journal"},{"issue":"11","key":"2026100600505898600_ref023","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"57","DOI":"10.1108\/JKM-05-2025-0751","article-title":"Mapping knowledge recombination for innovation: cognitive proximity and business method patents in the digital era","volume":"30","author":"Kim","year":"2026","journal-title":"Journal of Knowledge Management"},{"issue":"1","key":"2026100600505898600_ref024","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"126","DOI":"10.1287\/orsc.2021.1549","article-title":"To engage or not to engage with AI for critical judgments: how professionals deal with opacity when using AI for medical diagnosis","volume":"33","author":"Lebovitz","year":"2022","journal-title":"Organization Science"},{"key":"2026100600505898600_ref025","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1108\/JKM-06-2025-0866","article-title":"Leveraging digital and intelligent technologies for technological innovation ambidexterity: the roles of knowledge recombinant capabilities","author":"Liang","year":"2026","journal-title":"Journal of Knowledge Management"},{"issue":"5","key":"2026100600505898600_ref026","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1396","DOI":"10.1108\/JKM-05-2023-0435","article-title":"The relationship between digital economy and industrial green innovation efficiency\u2013based on the perspective of external knowledge sources","volume":"28","author":"Liao","year":"2024","journal-title":"Journal of Knowledge Management"},{"key":"2026100600505898600_ref027","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"104345","DOI":"10.1016\/j.iref.2025.104345","article-title":"Green innovation perspective: artificial intelligence and corporate green development","volume":"102","author":"Liu","year":"2025","journal-title":"International Review of Economics & Finance"},{"issue":"4","key":"2026100600505898600_ref028","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4705","DOI":"10.1002\/bse.70385","article-title":"Expanding the company\u2019s innovation boundaries for circularity: the mediating role of green strategic orientation and the moderating role of environmental turbulence","volume":"35","author":"Lozada","year":"2026","journal-title":"Business Strategy and the Environment"},{"issue":"4","key":"2026100600505898600_ref029","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1847","DOI":"10.1002\/bse.3223","article-title":"Digitalization and sustainable development: how could digital economy development improve green innovation in China?","volume":"32","author":"Luo","year":"2023","journal-title":"Business Strategy and the Environment"},{"issue":"2","key":"2026100600505898600_ref030","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"105030","DOI":"10.1016\/j.respol.2024.105030","article-title":"How symmetry between intrafirm knowledge and collaboration structures influences exploratory innovation under conditions of combinability","volume":"54","author":"Markus","year":"2025","journal-title":"Research Policy"},{"issue":"1","key":"2026100600505898600_ref031","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"255","DOI":"10.1177\/01492063241312656","article-title":"Green innovation implementation: a systematic review and research directions","volume":"52","author":"Qin","year":"2026","journal-title":"Journal of Management"},{"key":"2026100600505898600_ref032","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1002\/smj.70080","article-title":"Unlocking novel knowledge recombinations: the effect of artificial intelligence on inventive activity","author":"Qu","year":"2026","journal-title":"Strategic Management Journal"},{"issue":"7","key":"2026100600505898600_ref033","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1113","DOI":"10.1287\/mnsc.1060.0624","article-title":"Interfirm collaboration networks: the impact of large-scale network structure on firm innovation","volume":"53","author":"Schilling","year":"2007","journal-title":"Management Science"},{"issue":"10","key":"2026100600505898600_ref034","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"877","DOI":"10.3390\/systems13100877","article-title":"Knowledge recombination reveals the nonlinear influence of team scale on technological breakthroughs","volume":"13","author":"Song","year":"2025","journal-title":"Systems"},{"issue":"1","key":"2026100600505898600_ref035","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"515","DOI":"10.1287\/mnsc.2022.03968","article-title":"Reskilling the workforce for AI: domain expertise and algorithmic literacy","volume":"72","author":"Tambe","year":"2026","journal-title":"Management Science"},{"key":"2026100600505898600_ref036","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"101906","DOI":"10.1016\/j.techsoc.2022.101906","article-title":"The effect of ESG rating events on corporate green innovation in China: the mediating role of financial constraints and managers\u2019 environmental awareness","volume":"68","author":"Tan","year":"2022","journal-title":"Technology in Society"},{"key":"2026100600505898600_ref037","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"102454","DOI":"10.1016\/j.technovation.2022.102454","article-title":"Knowledge recombination for emerging technological innovations: the case of green shipping","volume":"114","author":"Tsouri","year":"2022","journal-title":"Technovation"},{"issue":"4","key":"2026100600505898600_ref038","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1055","DOI":"10.1108\/JKM-06-2024-0642","article-title":"Green innovation strategies in vietnamese enterprises: leveraging knowledge management and digitalization for sustainable competitiveness","volume":"29","author":"Vo-Thai","year":"2025","journal-title":"Journal of Knowledge Management"},{"key":"2026100600505898600_ref039","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"123079","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jenvman.2024.123079","article-title":"Can artificial intelligence improve enterprise environmental performance: evidence from China","volume":"370","author":"Wang","year":"2024","journal-title":"Journal of Environmental Management"},{"issue":"5","key":"2026100600505898600_ref040","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1626","DOI":"10.1108\/JKM-07-2025-1033","article-title":"Driving green collaborative innovation through knowledge spillover: the role of industrial relocation","volume":"30","author":"Wu","year":"2026","journal-title":"Journal of Knowledge Management"},{"key":"2026100600505898600_ref041","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"136278","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jclepro.2023.136278","article-title":"Impacts of digital transformation on eco-innovation and sustainable performance: evidence from chinese manufacturing companies","volume":"393","author":"Xu","year":"2023","journal-title":"Journal of Cleaner Production"},{"key":"2026100600505898600_ref042","first-page":"1","article-title":"From resource endowment to governance constraint: how does green intellectual capital influence corporate greenwashing?","author":"Yang","year":"2026","journal-title":"Journal of Intellectual Capital"},{"key":"2026100600505898600_ref043","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"102991","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ribaf.2025.102991","article-title":"Towards more inclusive finance: exploring the mystery of low carbon green technological innovation","volume":"78","author":"Yang","year":"2025","journal-title":"Research in International Business and Finance"},{"issue":"7","key":"2026100600505898600_ref044","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1235","DOI":"10.1108\/JMTM-01-2023-0005","article-title":"The effect of internal quality integration on financial performance: the mediating role of product innovation","volume":"34","author":"Yu","year":"2023","journal-title":"Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management"},{"key":"2026100600505898600_ref045","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"109175","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ijpe.2024.109175","article-title":"Unleashing the power of AI in manufacturing: enhancing resilience and performance through cognitive insights, process automation, and cognitive engagement","volume":"270","author":"Yu","year":"2024","journal-title":"International Journal of Production Economics"},{"issue":"2","key":"2026100600505898600_ref046","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"185","DOI":"10.2307\/4134351","article-title":"Absorptive capacity: a review, reconceptualization, and extension","volume":"27","author":"Zahra","year":"2002","journal-title":"The Academy of Management Review"},{"issue":"4","key":"2026100600505898600_ref047","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"679","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1467-6486.2009.00885.x","article-title":"The influence of technological knowledge base and organizational structure on technology collaboration","volume":"47","author":"Zhang","year":"2010","journal-title":"Journal of Management Studies"},{"issue":"2","key":"2026100600505898600_ref048","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"555","DOI":"10.1002\/smj.70025","article-title":"Concentration in cross-border research collaborations and MNCs\u2019 knowledge creation in a host country","volume":"47","author":"Zhang","year":"2026","journal-title":"Strategic Management Journal"},{"key":"2026100600505898600_ref049","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"104310","DOI":"10.1016\/j.frl.2023.104310","article-title":"Digital transformation and corporate ESG: evidence from China","volume":"58","author":"Zhao","year":"2023","journal-title":"Finance Research Letters"},{"issue":"3","key":"2026100600505898600_ref050","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"698","DOI":"10.1108\/JKM-08-2022-0623","article-title":"Exploring the impacts of knowledge recombination on firms\u2019 breakthrough innovation: the moderating effect of environmental dynamism","volume":"28","author":"Zhong","year":"2024","journal-title":"Journal of Knowledge Management"},{"issue":"9","key":"2026100600505898600_ref051","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1090","DOI":"10.1002\/smj.1959","article-title":"How knowledge affects radical innovation: knowledge base, market knowledge acquisition, and internal knowledge sharing","volume":"33","author":"Zhou","year":"2012","journal-title":"Strategic Management Journal"},{"key":"2026100600505898600_ref052","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"104330","DOI":"10.1016\/j.irfa.2025.104330","article-title":"Artificial intelligence and green transformation of manufacturing enterprises","volume":"104","author":"Zhou","year":"2025","journal-title":"International Review of Financial Analysis"},{"issue":"1","key":"2026100600505898600_ref053","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"171","DOI":"10.1108\/APJML-04-2024-0441","article-title":"ESG performance, media coverage and brand value","volume":"37","author":"Zou","year":"2025","journal-title":"Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics"},{"key":"2026100600505898600_ref054","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"581","DOI":"10.1016\/j.eap.2022.12.020","article-title":"The effect of broadband infrastructure construction on urban green innovation: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China","volume":"77","author":"Feng","year":"2023","journal-title":"Economic Analysis and Policy"}],"container-title":["Journal of Knowledge Management"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/jkm\/article-pdf\/doi\/10.1108\/JKM-04-2026-0712\/11892573\/jkm-04-2026-0712en.pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"syndication"},{"URL":"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/jkm\/article-pdf\/doi\/10.1108\/JKM-04-2026-0712\/11892573\/jkm-04-2026-0712en.pdf","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,6]],"date-time":"2026-10-06T04:51:15Z","timestamp":1791262275000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/jkm\/article\/doi\/10.1108\/JKM-04-2026-0712\/1400483\/Artificial-intelligence-adoption-and-green"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,7]]},"references-count":54,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1108\/jkm-04-2026-0712","relation":{},"ISSN":["1367-3270","1758-7484"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1367-3270","type":"print"},{"value":"1758-7484","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,7]]}}}