Government institutional support and eco-innovation: The moderating role of market performance in Benin?s industrial sector

Following prior findings on the revolutionary power of government institutional support on the actualization of enterprises' objectives, the present study analyzes its role as well as market performance on eco-innovation adoption. A hierarchical linear regression analysis underpins our empirical estimation. To validate this study's hypotheses about the direct effect of government institutional support on eco-innovation and the moderating role of market performance, we collected data from 189 manufacturing enterprises in Benin. The findings show that government institutional support positively influences eco-innovation. Additionally, we found that market performance has a negative significant moderating effect on the nexus between government institutional support and eco-innovation. Based on the results, we formulated that the empirical implications emphasize the collab-orative efforts of government and enterprises for eco-innovation adoption by identifying significant constraints, developing short-and long-term resource allocation layouts, and unwavering resource-sharing cooperation among enterprises. We shed light on the enabling aggregate effect of policies, programs, and crucial resource offerings conceptualized as government institutional support on firms' eco-innovation. We also offer novel in-sights into the motivational role of market performance in moderating this relationship, which is based on en-terprises' recognition of the associated financial and customer benefits.