Concepts Describing and Assessing Individuals’ Environmental Sustainability: An Integrative Review and Taxonomy

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Encouraging Individual Contributions to Net-Zero Organizations: Effects of Behavioral Policy Interventions and Social Norms

“…This line of research assumes that substantive organizational engagement in social and environmental initiatives and a positive green psychological climate can foster employee engagement in organizational CSR initiatives (Chang, 2020;Norton et al, 2017;Vlachos et al, 2014Vlachos et al, , 2017. Empirical studies, however, approach these relations from distinct disciplines and use a variety of concepts and constructs (Francoeur et al, 2021;Gond & Moser, 2021;Wallnoefer & Riefler, 2021).…”

“…To contextualize the impact of the (combinations of) interventions, we identify and control for several personal and contextual factors that may influence individual behavior in organizational contexts and test for moderating effects that these factors may exert on the results. Among the variety of possible influences discussed in the (fragmented) related literature (Wallnoefer & Riefler, 2021), we expect personality traits, pro-social and pro-environmental beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors as well as the degree to which an individual perceives herself as a member of the organization (Kreiner & Ashforth, 2004;Roeck et al, 2016) to influence the relations among the effectiveness of behavioral interventions and social norms. Furthermore, we explore the relevance of individual motives and barriers to climate-friendly behavior documented in the previous literature (Gifford, 2011;Lorenzoni et al, 2007;Swim et al, 2010) in the specific organizational context studied here.…”