Іmpact of labor resources on green competitiveness of enterprises

Abstract

The article summarizes the arguments and counter-arguments within the scientific discussion on the impact of labor resources on the level of green competitiveness of enterprises. The main purpose of the study is to identify key aspects of the formation of environmentally-oriented labor resources and analysis of the impact of global trends on the level of green competitiveness of enterprises. Systematization of literature sources and approaches to solving the problem of determining the level of impact of labor resources on green competitiveness of enterprises showed that today publishing activity and interest in this topic is growing and there is a significant correlation between effective corporate management of labor and increasing green competitiveness. The urgency of solving this scientific problem is that today there are no generally accepted methods for calculating the level of green competitiveness of the enterprise, and the complication for the study of this topic is to obtain accurate information on quality management results, because often it is the decision of managers are not interested in providing completely transparent information. The study of the impact of labor resources on the green competitiveness of enterprises in the article is carried out in the following logical sequence: systematization of literature sources, research dynamics of search queries on key terms “green competitiveness” and “labor resources” in Google search, bibliometric analysis on key terms “green competitiveness” and “labor resources”. The methodological tools of the study were the methods of logical generalization, comparative analysis and trend-bibliometric analysis - to identify patterns of influence of labor resources on the green competitiveness of enterprises. VOSViewer version 1.6.10 toolkit was used for bibliometric analysis, Google Trends was used for trend analysis, and the years from 2004 to 2020 were selected as the research period. The object of the study is a sample of 873 publications and 9480 search queries for such keywords as “green competitiveness” and “labor resources” based on scientometric databases Scopus and Web of Science, as well as Google Trends tools. The study theoretically proves the impact of strategic human resource management on the level of green competitiveness of the enterprise. The results of the study can be useful for further analytical analysis of the impact of human resources on the green competitiveness of the enterprise.