Linking Green HRM Practices and Green Innovation to Sustainable Performance: Evidence from Upscale Hotels in India

  • Authors

    • Aaliya Ashraf University School of Business, Chandigarh University, India
    • Ulfat Andrabi Management and Commerce Department Lala Lajpat Rai College of Engineering and Technology, Punjab, India
    • Syed Mohd Khalid Pyramid College of Business and Technology, Punjab, India
    • Virgil Popescu University of Craiova, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Craiova, Romania
    • Ramona Birau University of Craiova, "Eugeniu Carada" Doctoral School of Economic Sciences, Craiova, Romania
    • Roxana-Mihaela Nioata (Chireac) University of Craiova, Doctoral School of Economic Sciences” Eugeniu Carada”, Craiova
    • Gabriela Ana Maria Lupu (Filip) University of Craiova, “Eugeniu Carada” Doctoral School of Economic Sciences, Craiova
    https://doi.org/10.14419/gv6w4738

    Received date: August 12, 2025

    Accepted date: September 19, 2025

    Published date: September 27, 2025

  • Green Human Resource Management; Triple Bottom Line; Sustainable Performance; Green Innovation; Upscale Hotels

  • Abstract

    This study examines green innovation, green HRM bundle practices, and Triple Bottom Line sustainability performance. A tailored survey will quantify the data of 305 high-end hotel personnel in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. Smart PLS used structural equation modeling to analyze data. Data show that green HRM package practices improve hotels' sustainability. Green innovation also has a significant impact on sustainable performance and partially mediates the relationship between green HR practices and SMEs' sustainable performance. This study advises using GHRM to improve hotels' GI adoption and sustainability. This study reinforces conventional wisdom. Innovation and human resources environmental management techniques can improve sustainability.

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    Ashraf, A. ., Andrabi, U. ., Khalid, S. M. ., Popescu, V. ., Birau, R., Nioata (Chireac), R.-M. ., & Lupu (Filip), G. A. M. . (2025). Linking Green HRM Practices and Green Innovation to Sustainable Performance: Evidence from Upscale Hotels in India. International Journal of Accounting and Economics Studies, 12(5), 1062-1069. https://doi.org/10.14419/gv6w4738