Abstract

Green knowledge management (GKM) has attracted crucial interest from practitioners and researchers but remains underdeveloped and understudied, particularly in identifying its antecedents and outcomes. This scarcity could be attributed to its novelty as a managerial phenomenon and to the fact that its intersection with the sustainability field remains very limited and fragmentary. Hence, our current conceptual article aims to contribute to enriching the extant literature on GKM by developing a conceptual model including its antecedents, consequences, mediators, and moderators and proposing new research propositions. Our comprehensive and integrated conceptual framework has drawn on literature from fields that have been identified through a search of scholarly literature, which is mainly accessible through electronic databases (e.g., ScienceDirect, MDPI, and Springer). The initial literature review, which started with an investigation of publications addressing the concept of GKM, was followed by a process of analysis and synthesis. The analysis of literature began with searching for publications that were relevant to the purpose of this study, namely those that addressed issues related to the antecedents and outcomes of GKM. Then, we initiated the synthesis process to form the conceptual framework that provides a more holistic approach to understanding the concept of GKM. This research contributes to extant knowledge by delimiting, detailing, charting, describing, and depicting GKM and its relationship to other entities (e.g., antecedents, consequences, mediators, and moderators). Hence, new and unpublished research propositions are proposed alongside existing ones in the literature.