The current study aims to evaluate the role of environmental orientation (EO) on green dynamic capabilities (GDCs), organization green culture (OGC), and green innovation (GIN) toward business sustainability (BUS) in the context of Chinese textile and apparel manufacturing firms. Natural resources-based view (NRBV) and dynamic capabilities view (DCV) were used as the theoretical lenses of the research. This study is quantitative, and a purposive sampling technique was employed to collect data from the managers working in textile and apparel manufacturing firms in China. The sample size consisted of 339 managers. Partial least-square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was employed to analyze the data. The study’s findings show that EO significantly and positively influences OGC and GDCs. However, the positive influence of EO on GIN was insignificant. Moreover, the result indicates that GIN is a significant mediator in the relationships between OGC and BUS and GDCs and BUS. The results demonstrate how the Chinese textile and apparel industry EO improves GDCs, GIN, and OGC, which, in turn, benefits achieving long-term business sustainability.

We empirically investigate the relationship between environmental regulation and regional innovative ability from the perspective of government competition with a dynamic spatial model, using the 2011–2020 Chinese interprovincial panel dataset as the sample. Empirical underpinnings reveal the interconnection between environmental regulation and regional innovative ability. Further, it has been substantiated as follows: (1) environmental regulation affects regional innovative ability significantly. From the national level perspective, environmental regulation is negatively correlated with regional innovative ability. Further, vigorous environmental regulation deters regional innovative ability and produces a crowding out effect; (2) Environmental regulation has a significant spatial spillover effect on regional technological innovative ability. Meanwhile, the promulgation of environmental policy in the region will affect the innovative ability of neighboring regions; (3) It has also been concluded that there is a strategic competition among local governments in promulgation of environmental regulation, specifically in eastern and central regions which has been signified through regional regressions result. Comprehensively, the current study provides recommendations to governments for allocation of environmental policy under the aegis of regional innovation for improving regional innovative ability.