This study empirically analyzes the impact of management capabilities on corporate environmental performance and the moderating role of top management team faultlines including task-related faultlines and bio-demographic faultlines in the Chinese context. This study uses a sample of 163 Chinese chemical firms and hierarchical regression analysis to test the proposed hypotheses. The results show that management capabilities have a significant and positive influence on environmental performance of the firms. In addition, top management team task-related faultlines have a significant and positive moderating effect on the relationship between management capabilities and environmental performance of the firms, whereas top management team bio-demographic faultlines have a significant and negative moderating effect on the relationship between management capabilities and environmental performance of the firms. According to the results, this study puts forward some theoretical and practical implications. This study contributes to the literatures on the top management team faultlines and environmental management, especially to the literatures on the mechanism for how management capabilities influence corporate environmental performance.
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Management Capabilities, Environmental Performance, Top Management Team Faultlines
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