Explaining the business case for environmental management practices in SMEs: The role of organisational capabilities for environmental communication

The green accommodation sectors are increasingly committed to implementing environmental management practices while enhancing guests’ pro-environmental behaviour. However, it is not easy to change tourists’ behaviour as there are many factors influencing tourists’ participation in green management actions. This paper argues that a combination of multiple factors such as visitor characteristics or previous environmental experience needs to be examined to determine how these factors are differently associated with the type of pro-environmental behaviour. In particular, this study also investigates how environmentally responsible tourist markets can engage differently in different types of pro-environmental behaviour. Visitors staying at the green accommodation in Kangaroo Island, South Australia, were studied using self-administered questionnaires. The findings of this study confirmed the significant role of environmentally responsible travel experience as a strong predictor of two types of pro-environmental behaviour (e.g., energy-saving and recycling vs. eco-product consumption behaviour) and its moderating effects on the relationship between visitor characteristics and pro-environmental behaviours (PEBs). Furthermore, this environmental-responsibility-based segmentation approach provides green-oriented accommodation sectors with some managerial implications for improving green accommodation practices that can be operated on different principles for two different targeted markets based on their environmental responsibility. This study recommends that more in-depth investigations of other barriers or facilitators of pro-environmental behaviour are necessary to fully address this issue and to ultimately influence tourists’ responsible support for environmental management practices implemented by the green accommodation sector.

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Environmental management practices and financial performance using data envelopment analysis in Japan: The mediating role of environmental performance

Business Strategy and the Environment ◽

10.1002/bse.2700 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Shoaib Aslam ◽

Mohamed H. Elmagrhi ◽

Ramiz Ur Rehman ◽

Collins G. Ntim

Keyword(s):

Environmental Management ◽

Data Envelopment Analysis ◽

Financial Performance ◽

Environmental Performance ◽

Management Practices ◽

Data Envelopment ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Environmental Management Practices ◽

Using Data

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Role of lean manufacturing and environmental management practices in eliciting environmental and financial performance: the contingent effect of institutional pressures

Environmental Science and Pollution Research ◽

10.1007/s11356-019-05729-3 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 26 (24) ◽

pp. 24967-24978 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Masood Nawaz Kalyar ◽

Imran Shafique ◽

Ammar Abid

Keyword(s):

Environmental Management ◽

Financial Performance ◽

Lean Manufacturing ◽

Management Practices ◽

Institutional Pressures ◽

Environmental Management Practices

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Developing organisational citizenship behaviour for the environment: the contingency role of environmental management practices

Management Decision ◽

10.1108/md-05-2020-0549 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Haris Aslam ◽

Muhammad Umer Azeem ◽

Sami Ullah Bajwa ◽

Asher Ramish ◽

Amer Saeed

Keyword(s):

Environmental Management ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Service Sector ◽

Management Practices ◽

Employee Attitudes ◽

Leadership Theory ◽

Supervisory Support ◽

Content Type ◽

Environmental Management Practices

PurposeDrawing on the “substitute for leadership” theory, this study investigates the mediating role of employee attitude between supervisory support and employee’s organisational citizenship behaviour for the environment. It also explicates the role of environmental management practices, as substitute for supervisory support in this relationship.Design/methodology/approachTime-lagged data (n = 235) were collected from middle- and upper-level management employees working in manufacturing and service sector organisations in Pakistan. Hypotheses were tested using structural equation modelling and regression analysis.FindingsThe findings reveal that supervisory support enhances employee attitudes towards pro-environmental behaviour, which in turn increases employees’ tendency to involve in organisational citizenship behaviour for the environment. However, the formal environmental management practices of the organisation serve as a substitute for the supervisory support because, if such formal practices are followed, the role of supervisory support becomes less significant.Originality/valueThis study is the maiden attempt to apply the “substitute for leadership” theory to the study of organisation citizenship behaviour for the environment. Moreover, it adds to the largely overlooked dimension of the research area concerning the inter-relationships between employees’, supervisory and organisational level antecedents of organisational citizenship behaviour for the environment.

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