scholarly journals A STUDY OF LOCAL WISDOM, SOCIAL INTEREST, AND PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR IN IMPROVING ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP PERFORMANCE

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 275-293
Author(s):  
Constantinus ◽  
Andreas Lako ◽  
Kristiana Haryanti
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Environmental Behavior ◽  
Social Interest ◽  
Triple Bottom Line ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Environmental Leadership ◽  
Leadership Performance ◽  
Leadership Models

The purpose of this study is to develop a model of environmental leadership in profit-oriented companies. The theoretical basis is strategic thinking which includes cognitive psychology, systems thinking, and games theory to realize the triple bottom line-oriented environmental leadership performance. The study used quantitative methods in all 25 Rural Banks in Semarang City from April to May 2021, which involved 339 respondents consisting of commissioners, directors, managers, supervisors, and executives. The empirical data was analyzed using SEM-AMOS. The models consist of SEM 1: ELP = 0.256 LW + 0.288 SI + 0.138 PEB + e1 (R2 = 0.295); PEB = 0.446 LW + 0.094 SI + e2 (R2 = 0.247). The paper is novel because it seeks to contribute to the current debate in the literature about what factors affect the performance of environmental leadership. The other novelty of this research is a comprehensive model consisting of local wisdom, social interest, and pro-environmental behavior to improve environmental leadership performance. Based on this model, there is empirical evidence that environmental leadership performance (ELP) can be improved by increasing the combination of local wisdom (LW), social interest (SI), and pro-environmental behavior (PEB). The study also provides novelty that PEB mediates significantly positive the effect of LW on ELP, but PEB only mediates the effect of SI on ELP positively but not significantly. This study offers practical and theoretical implications, providing recommendations for Rural Banks to implement the environmental leadership models that include local wisdom and social interest, and an empirical confirmation of the environmental leadership model by combining strategic thinking and the triple bottom line for the development of literature and psychological assessment materials. Similarly, this study also provides policy implications. It is useful to evaluate and improve several regulations and leadership standards in Rural Bank to realize sustainable finance and evaluate psychological requirements based on the environmental leadership models.

Triple Bottom Line Accounting and Energy-Efficiency Retrofits in the Social-Housing Sector: A Case Study

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Bewley ◽  
Thomas Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Triple Bottom Line ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Housing Sector ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
The Social

ABSTRACT This paper reports the findings of a case study conducted to learn about the information, actors, actions, and processes involved in energy-efficiency investment decisions in the social-housing sector. These decisions draw on environmental, social, and economic factors, which are studied from a “triple bottom line” (TBL) accounting perspective. The quantitative methods we use rely on Levels I, II, and III fair-value measures similar to those used in financial accounting. The qualitative methods rely primarily on interviews conducted and transcribed by the researchers. Our main findings show that a pure financial bottom-line approach would not fully indicate the overall desirability of the type of energy-efficiency investment undertaken in this case. By factoring in other quantitative and qualitative outcomes drawn from the research methods applied, a different conclusion may be reached. Data Availability: Available upon request from the authors.

The influence of institutional factors on MNC’s triple bottom-line reporting

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Urban ◽  
Rutendo Hwindingwi
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Triple Bottom Line ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Targeted Interventions

Purpose Recognising the rapid institutional changes multinational corporations (MNCs) face in emerging markets, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of various institutional factors on their triple bottom-line (TBL) reporting. The study builds on existing research where it has been noted that international business theory needs to adapt to the changes in the global economy, particularly the need to recognise the influence of several contingent variables in African emerging markets (AEMs). Design/methodology/approach The study design was cross-sectional where a survey was administered to MNCs operating in four leading countries situated in key economic regions in Africa. Following validity and reliability testing, hypotheses were tested using regression analysis. Findings Findings show that an independent judiciary system and an adequate national security system were found to have a positive and significant influence on the MNC’s TBL reporting. These institutional factors highlight the perceived importance of “law and order” for MNCs in AEMs. Research limitations/implications Policy implications relate to the need for specific and targeted interventions aimed at improving institutional factors in AEMs. Originality/value Instead of focusing on the internationalisation of AEM firms, the study took a different approach by focusing instead on countries previously under researched and how MNCs are affected by the institutional regimes in these AEMs.

scholarly journals A Sustainable Plan to Rescue HR from Itself

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7587
Author(s):  
James W. Westerman
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource ◽  
Triple Bottom Line ◽  
Transformational Change ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Cost Center ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Business Function ◽  
Hr Function ◽  
Change Efforts

The Human Resource (HR) function is often viewed by those in organizations as a process function and a cost-center, which results in an enhanced risk of outsourcing and automation. However, HR is also uniquely positioned to engage firms in cross-functional transformational change efforts, as its work is embedded in every business function within an organization. Sustainable HR and the triple bottom line (TBL) present opportunities for HR to build a strategic role within organizations. This essay provides strategic and tactical models, with specific steps for implementation, to assist HR in re-assert its role in driving the competitiveness of the firm through Sustainable HR.

Conducting policy-relevant developmental psychopathology research

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne C. Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Developmental Change ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Prevention Policy ◽  
Sustaining Change ◽  
Development Change ◽  
Or Practice

Policy, defined broadly to include public policy as well as institutional or organizational policy, is useful for sustaining change in human development and its contexts and systems. The role for developmental psychopathology research in policy analysis and policy making is discussed. To assure that developmental psychopathology research is useful for policy (or practice) requires rigorous strategic thinking, commonly called “systems thinking”. Systems thinking is described and its usefulness tested with a specific example of human development change - that of delinquency career crime prevention. Policy implications are then drawn from the example and generalized to broader human developmental change.

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