The Mediating Role of Green Innovation in Islamic Banking between Green Finance and Green Sustainability Performance

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Authors: Omima Al-refai, Murad Ali Ahmad Al-Zaqeba, Baker Akram Falah Jarah
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Abstract

Analyzing the interplay between finance, green sustainability performance, and the RBV and DCT within the context of Jordanian Islamic banks, the work creates a conceptual model that constitutes the transformation of resource innovation and financially ethical sustainability outcomes. The Islamic banks' employees’ surveys, quantitatively analyzed using Smart PLS 4 and the PLS-SEM approach, endorsed the proposed model. The findings proved green finance and innovation to be the positive catalysts of sustainability performance and green innovation, respectively, thereby providing direct proof of the PLS-SEM paradigm. Additionally, the findings describe green innovation as a complete mediator of the green finance and sustainability performance paradigm. Conclusively, green innovation is the instrumental model for banks for the conversion of positive financial instruments into positive social and ecological impacts. The Islamic banks, sustainability strategists, and policy formulators translate Islamic and direct net positive financial instruments principles into an innovation platform that generates green transformation. Conceptually, the work integrated the PR and DCT paradigm into the green Islamic finance domain and the Islamic net positive financial principles, resource transformation and innovation.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Islamic Finance and Banking Studies Sustainable Finance and Green Bonds Environmental Sustainability in Business

Publication details

Journal / source
International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy
Volume
16
Issue
2
Pages
843–853
Publication date
8 February 2026
Language
EN