Pathways to Environmental Sustainability: How Green Ambidexterity and Green HRM Flexibility Shape the Leather Goods and Footwear Sector in Bangladesh

Theoretically, the study advances dynamic capabilities theory to the green human-resource domain by conceptualizing organizational green ambidexterity as a dynamic capability that is activated through people rather than in the abstract. Its main contribution is to identify green HRM flexibility as the human resource mechanism by which an ambidextrous green behavior is transmitted to environmental sustainability. The study adds to the literature contextually by combining green ambidexterity, HR flexibility and digital capability in the leather goods and footwear industry, a compliance-sensitive and export-dependent industry that is under-researched despite its environmental stakes in Bangladesh. Results of this study will bring immense connotations towards the employees, industry experts, environmental advocates, policy makers and managerial bodies to take decisions and implications towards attaining environmental sustainability.