This study examines how firms leverage sustainable innovation propensity and digital sustainability transparency as strategic resources to navigate multilevel environmental pressures and achieve environmental and innovation performance. The central theory guiding this research is the resource‐based view, which posits that firms gain competitive advantage through the effective management of valuable, rare, and inimitable resources. We collected the primary data from 182 employees of manufacturing firms in the United States and United Kingdom. The study found a positive association between various environmental pressures—competitors, government and employees, top management environmental awareness, and digital sustainability transparency. The results further signify that sustainability innovation propensity mediates the constructive association between digital sustainability transparency and innovation performance, as well as between digital sustainability transparency and environmental performance. The findings imply how an organization navigates the social environment and the external pressures coming from the government, competitors, and the employees. Organizational environmental changes and green business strategies can be effectively implemented through anticipatory environmental scanning and stakeholders' involvement. To manage these pressures, organizations are encouraged to establish a sustainability directorate, whose role would be to codify these signals into managerial implications continually.

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应对多层次环境压力并利用数字透明度作为可持续创新的催化剂：提高环境绩效的途径

本研究考察了公司如何利用可持续创新倾向和数字可持续性透明度作为战略资源来应对多层次环境压力并实现环境和创新绩效。指导这项研究的核心理论是基于资源的观点，它假设公司通过有效管理有价值、稀有和不可模仿的资源来获得竞争优势。我们收集了来自美国和英国制造公司的 182 名员工的原始数据。该研究发现，各种环境压力（竞争对手、政府和员工、高层管理人员的环境意识和数字可持续性透明度）之间存在正相关。结果进一步表明，可持续性创新倾向在数字可持续性透明度与创新绩效之间以及数字可持续性透明度与环境绩效之间的建设性关联之间起中介作用。这些发现暗示了组织如何驾驭社会环境以及来自政府、竞争对手和员工的外部压力。通过前瞻性的环境扫描和利益相关者的参与，可以有效地实施组织环境变化和绿色商业战略。为了管理这些压力，鼓励组织建立一个可持续发展理事会，其作用是将这些信号不断编纂成管理影响。