University of Tehran Press Industrial Management Journal 3115-7386 8 2 2016 07 22 The Impact of Human Capital on Green Innovation بررسی تاثیر سرمایه انسانی بر نوآوری سبز 141 162 60653 10.22059/imj.2016.60653 EN Manouchehr Ansaris Associate Prof., Faculty of Management, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran Sheida Ashrafi MSc. in Executive Management, Faculty of Pardis Alborz, Tehran University, Iran Hoda Jebellie MSc. in Executive Management, Faculty of Pardis Alborz, Tehran University, Iran Journal Article 2016 01 02 Today, the environment becomes the main pillar of the decision making of many organizations in the world. Because on the one hand consumers ' awareness of environmental issues increased and on the other hand، strict environmental rules defined by governors. Environmental responsibility combined with the need of organizations to competitiveness، created the concept of green innovation. It is evident that innovation is meaningless without green human capital، who are fully aware of environmental aspects of their organization's activities. In this research we examined the impact of human capital on green innovation. Human capital construct had three parts named: Knowledge background, psychological background and capacity and green innovation construct defined by two parts as: green leadership and green supply chain. For the analysis of data smartpls software used. The result of this research showed that human capital can trigger green innovation by 76% https://imj.ut.ac.ir/article_60653_b3dc0250bce174165d3ff5bad8144c83.pdf