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Impact of corporate sustainable practices, government initiative, technology usage, and organizational culture on automobile industry sustainable performance

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The increasing worldwide automobile production and usage adversely impact the environmental, economic, and social well-being. Although the automobile companies are trying to solve this problem by adopting corporate sustainability, there is a gap in the extant literature on sustainable corporate practices that are the most important to empower better sustainability performance. This study highlights the impact of core corporate sustainable practices attributes, government initiative, technology usage, and organizational culture on the sustainable performance of the automobile industry in India. The study proposed six aspects and fifty-three criteria from the literature review. The current article has used survey questionnaires to collect the primary data. The present article also applied the smart-PLS to test the association among the variables. The results indicated that the corporate sustainable practices attributes, technology usage, and organizational culture have a positive and significant linkage with the sustainable performance of the automobile industry. The current article guides the regulators in developing the regulations to improve sustainable organizational performance using sustainable corporate practices.

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  1. Department of Business Administration, Asia University, 500, Lioufeng Rd, Wufeng, Taichung, 41354, Taiwan

    Massoud Moslehpour, Yu-Te Tu, Momodou Barry & Kamasani Dhanasekhar Reddy

  2. Department of Management, California State University, 5500 University Parkway, San BernardinoSan Bernardino, CA, 92407, USA

    Massoud Moslehpour

  3. City University of Macau Faculty of Business, Taipa, Macau

    Ka Yin Chau

  4. School of Business and Management, RMIT International University, 702 Nguyen Van Linh, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Khanh-Linh Nguyen

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Massoud Moslehpour: conceptualization, writing—original draft. Ka Yin Chau: writing—literature review. Yu-Te Tu: software, visualization. Khanh-Linh Nguyen: methodology. Momodou Barry: supervision, Kamasani Dhanasekhar Reddy: data curation and editing.

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Moslehpour, M., Chau, K.Y., Tu, YT. et al. Impact of corporate sustainable practices, government initiative, technology usage, and organizational culture on automobile industry sustainable performance. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 83907–83920 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-21591-2

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