Abstract Firms often aim to develop new products in an environmentally sustainable fashion, while at the same time ensuring profitability. While firms may aim to do so themselves through internal sustainable design practices, what has increasingly become prevalent is to leverage the expertise of suppliers in such endeavors. With this framing and by relying on the resource-based view and its extensions reflected in the natural resource-based view of the firm, this study develops a conceptual model theorizing how internal resources in the form of sustainable design practices enable a firm to improve the environmental and economic performance associated with new product development initiatives. Further, we propose that (external) supplier involvement in new product development complements a firm's internal efforts to reap benefits from sustainable design practices, with this complementary effect however being contingent on the suppliers' environmental management capability. The results from testing this model with empirical survey data provide important academic and managerial insights regarding how firms should best manage their efforts to develop environmentally friendly new products through the leveraging of both internal (firm) and external (supplier) resources.

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通过供应商参与新产品开发来利用可持续设计实践：供应商环境管理能力的作用

摘要 公司通常旨在以环境可持续的方式开发新产品，同时确保盈利。虽然公司的目标可能是通过内部可持续设计实践自己这样做，但越来越普遍的是在此类努力中利用供应商的专业知识。有了这个框架，并依靠以资源为基础的观点及其反映在公司基于自然资源的观点中的扩展，本研究开发了一个概念模型，理论化了可持续设计实践形式的内部资源如何使公司能够改善与新产品开发计划相关的环境和经济绩效。此外，我们建议（外部）供应商参与新产品开发是对公司的补充 内部努力从可持续设计实践中获益，但这种互补效应取决于供应商的环境管理能力。使用实证调查数据测试该模型的结果提供了重要的学术和管理见解，关于公司应如何通过利用内部（公司）和外部（供应商）资源最好地管理其开发环保新产品的努力。