Impact of Entrepreneur's Environmental Attitudes on Corporate Environmental Responsibility

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vallari Chandna
Keyword(s):  
Strong Influence ◽  
Environmental Attitudes ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Environmental Responsibility ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Entrepreneurial Firms ◽  
Corporate Environmental Responsibility ◽  
The Impact

The impact of personal characteristics, beliefs, values and attitudes of the entrepreneur on firm's culture and business practices, is substantive. These aspects of the founder coupled with the institutional environment of the firm, affect the investment, efforts and involvement of the firm in a multitude of activities. With regard to activities that impact the natural environment, this paper argues that the environmental attitudes of entrepreneurs have a strong influence on the corporate environmental responsibility (CER) of the firm that are in turn moderated by the need for legitimacy by new entrepreneurial firms. The role of imprinting is examined to understand how founders' attitudes impact their firm's CER activities. A further contribution is the creation of a taxonomy of sub-categories of CER activities that illustrate the level of engagement of the firm.

scholarly journals Impact of Corporate Environmental Responsibility on Investment Efficiency: The Moderating Roles of the Institutional Environment and Consumer Environmental Awareness

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 4512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shihong Zeng ◽  
Yujia Qin ◽  
Guowang Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Environmental Responsibility ◽  
Investment Efficiency ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Corporate Environmental Responsibility ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Chinese Listed Companies ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

The increasingly serious destruction of the natural environment represents a great threat to the sustainable development of human beings and the earth. Under pressure from the government and public opinion, companies must assume environmental responsibility; however, there is no conclusion on whether corporate environmental responsibility is beneficial to companies. From the perspective of investment efficiency, this paper collects panel data from Chinese listed companies from 2011 to 2016 to discuss the impact of corporate environmental responsibility on investment efficiency and the moderating role of the institutional environment and consumer environmental awareness. The results show that corporate environmental responsibility can significantly positively affect investment efficiency, but this effect is not a short-term effect; it needs time to play a role. Second, in regions with a good institutional environment, corporate environmental responsibility has a more significant impact on improving investment efficiency. Finally, with the improvement of consumer environmental awareness, companies that assume environmental responsibility can address underinvestment. The research in this paper supports stakeholder theory, indicating that corporate environmental responsibility is not “selfless dedication”. In addition, the research results of this paper are robust and not subject to endogenous influences.

scholarly journals Environmental regulation, environmental responsibility, and green technology innovation: Empirical research from China

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. e0257670
Author(s):  
Yuanyang Wang ◽  
Yanlin Yang ◽  
Chenyu Fu ◽  
Zengzeng Fan ◽  
Xiaoping Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Fiscal Decentralization ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Environmental Taxes ◽  
Environmental Responsibility ◽  
Corporate Environmental Responsibility ◽  
The Impact

Innovation and green are the directions to promote the circular economy and environmental sustainability at the corporate level. This paper examines the impact of environmental regulation (pollution charge) on green technology innovation and the mediating role of corporate environmental responsibility. Our results indicate that: (1) Environmental regulations stimulate manufacturing enterprises’ environmental responsibility and green technology innovation. It is worth noting that corporate environmental responsibility strengthens the relationship between environmental regulation and green technology innovation. (2) Further investigation reveals that R&D expenditure and environmental investment have greatly strengthened the positive effect of environmental regulation on green technology innovation. (3) With more detailed disclosure about enterprises’ environment-related information, the more outstanding stimulation effects of environmental regulation. Discussions on the features of enterprise location have revealed that, if the goal of environmental protection is set too high or if the fiscal decentralization is too strong, implementation of environmental regulation would not achieve desirable results. Accordingly, we need to optimize the collection of environmental taxes, strengthen the enterprises’ environmental responsibility, and increase investment in R&D and environment protection. Meanwhile, the execution of environmental regulation should also take into account the institutional environment and governance features of the enterprise locations.

scholarly journals The Effects of Managerial Competency and Local Religiosity on Corporate Environmental Responsibility

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 5857
Author(s):  
Chuluunbat Tsendsuren ◽  
Prayag Lal Yadav ◽  
Sangsoo Kim ◽  
Seung-Hun Han
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Environmental Responsibility ◽  
Corporate Environmental Responsibility ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Publicly Traded ◽  
Environmental Practices ◽  
Corporate Behavior ◽  
Environmental Engagement ◽  
Managerial Competency

This study investigates the influence of local religious beliefs to evaluate managerial motives towards corporate environmental engagement, considering the growing attention of the role of external factors in shaping corporate behavior. Using Newsweek’s green rankings of the largest publicly traded US firms by market capitalization from 2014–2016, we find that competent managers show a higher strategic preference for corporate environmental practices in firms located in low-Protestant or high-Catholic areas exhibiting higher risk and uncertainty, which tend to mitigate the negative effects of risky environments. We find that corporate environmental practices positively influence the sales of firms in high risk-taking states. This study provides significant contributions to the literature documenting the consequences of local religious risk-taking behavior and elaborates on the perceptions of competent managers on environmental management. The results provide valuable insights for practitioners and policymakers looking to incorporate environmental practices.

THE MAIN DIRECTIONS OF SIBLING RESEARCH

2021 ◽  
pp. 96-115
Author(s):  
Oksana V. Baskaeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
The Family ◽  
Sick Children ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Impact

An overview of the areas of sibling research that laid the foundation for the modern understanding of sibling issues is presented. Attention is focused on the importance of sibling relationships for personal development, socialization and adaptation, and on the existing shortage of relevant work at the same time. The main stages of the development of sibling theory in their continuity are considered, starting from the first studies devoted to the search for a connection between the order of birth and achievements and dated to the end of the 19th century, to the term “individual environment” developed by the genetics of behavior in the second half of the 20th century. It emphasizes the role of A. Adler, who has made sibling a central feature of family life and personal development and has long determined the future direction of empirical family research. It shows a gradual shift in the interest of researchers from studying the influence of birth order, gender, and age intervals between siblings on personal characteristics. In this connection, an analysis of the nature of sibling relations on the basis of reciprocity and complementarity, undertaken by Dunn, is given. Early works on the jealousy and rivalry of children in the family, the study of the impact of parental differential treatment on them, as well as the influence of child characteristics on siblings in families with sick children are considered.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF PERCEIVED ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY ON TOURISTS’ INTENTION TO VISIT GREEN HOTEL: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF ATTITUDE

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
Ataul Karim PATWARY ◽  
◽  
Hamimi OMAR ◽  
Shaharuddin TAHIR ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Environmental Responsibility ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Green Hotel ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Green Hotels

Although the hospitality and tourism industries contribute considerably to every country's economy, at the same time, it has negative effects on the climate. Hotel industry operations consume enormous amounts of energy which eventually contribute to environmental degradation. Hotel operations do not only cause environmental issues, but customers also play a significant role in creating these issues. Scholars, mainly in this field, have investigated the causes of environmental degradation from the perspective of hotel operations rather than customers. Therefore, this study aims to examine the influence of perceived environmental responsibility on tourists' attitude and intention to visit green hotels in Malaysia. It further examined the mediating role of attitude in between perceived environmental responsibility and intention. The study used a quantitative research design and interviewed 393 international tourists in Malaysia using systematic random sampling. For analysis techniques, the study used Structural Equation Modelling by PLS-SEM. The study found that consumers' perceived environmental responsibility influences significantly on tourists' attitude and intention. It also revealed that consumers' attitude mediates the in-between perceived environmental responsibility and intention to visit green hotels in Malaysia.

scholarly journals The Effect of Attribute Alignability on Product Purchase: The Moderating Role of Product Familiarity and Self-Construal

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Zhang ◽  
Yuwen Wen ◽  
Min Hou
Keyword(s):  
Structural Alignment ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Product Positioning ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Product Familiarity ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Moderating Role

Previous studies on the Structural Alignment Model suggest that people compare the alignable attributes and nonalignable attributes during the decision-making process and preference formation process. Alignable attributes are easier to process and more effective in clue extracting. Thus, it is believed that people rely more on alignable than nonalignable attributes when comparing alternatives. This article supposes that consumers’ product experience and personal characteristics also play a significant role in regulating consumers’ reliance on attribute alignability. The authors conducted three experiments to examine the moderating role of consumers’ product familiarity and self-construal in the impact of attribute alignability on consumer product purchase. The results show the following: (1) When making a purchase decision, consumers with a high level of product familiarity will rely more on nonalignable attributes, while those with a low level of product familiarity will rely more on alignable attributes. (2) The difference in consumer dependency on attribute alignability is driven by their perceived diagnosticity of attributes. (3) The dependency of consumers with different levels of familiarity on attribute alignability will be further influenced by consumers’ self-construal. Individuals with interdependent self-construal rely more on alignable attributes when unfamiliar with the product, while relying more on nonalignable attributes when familiar with the product. Individuals with independent self-construal, however, rely more on nonalignable attributes regardless of the degree of product familiarity. The conclusions of this paper can be used as references for enterprises to establish product positioning and communication strategies.

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