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Antecedents of Adopting Corporate Environmental Responsibility and Green Practices

verfasst von: Jung Wan Lee, Young Min Kim, Young Ei Kim

Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics | Ausgabe 2/2018

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This paper examines the antecedents of organizational commitment for adopting corporate environmental responsibility and green practices in the case of the logistics industry in South Korea. Seven hundred and eighty employees and top management from logistics companies were sampled. The data were analyzed using factor analysis, structural equation modeling techniques, and one-way analysis of variance. The results showed that social expectations, organizational support, and stakeholder pressure were the important antecedents for the adoption of corporate environmental responsibility and green practices. In the path analysis, social expectations had the greatest impact on both stakeholder pressure and green practice adoption. Moreover, we found that the higher the job titles were, the more willing they were to adopt green practices. This indicated that the current top management of Korean logistics companies is well aware of being mandated to make a commitment to corporate environmental responsibility and green practices.

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Titel: Antecedents of Adopting Corporate Environmental Responsibility and Green Practices
verfasst von: Jung Wan Lee
Young Min Kim
Young Ei Kim
Publikationsdatum: 20.01.2016
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics / Ausgabe 2/2018
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-016-3024-y

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