Energy use, behavioral change, and business organizations: Reviewing recent findings and proposing a future research agenda

Andrews, Richard; Johnson, Evan

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2015.09.001

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“…Pro-environmental behaviour reflects behaviour that harms the environment as little as possible or even benefits it (Steg & Vlek, 2009). Thus far, most studies on proenvironmental behaviour focus on private sphere behaviours, such as recycling or energy conservation at home (Abrahamse, Steg, Vlek, & Rothengatter, 2005;Steg, Perlaviciute, & Van der Werff, 2015), but less research has been conducted on pro-environmental behaviour at work (Andrews & Johnson, 2016;H. Wang, Tong, Takeuchi, & George, 2016).…”

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The relationship between Corporate Environmental Responsibility, employees’ biospheric values and pro-environmental behaviour at work

Ruepert

Keizer

Steg

2017

Journal of Environmental Psychology

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The relationship between Corporate Environmental Responsibility, employees’ biospheric values and pro-environmental behaviour at work

Ruepert

Keizer

Steg

2017

Journal of Environmental Psychology

100

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“…These findings go in line with the findings where macro influences on energy behavior are discussed. According to the comprehensive review of studies about energy behavior in organizations, energy behavior is driven by broad social and institutional considerations [7,42]. In response to this statement, our research findings indicate that in the military unit communality acts as the factor of sustaining pro-environmental behavior, i.e., when the change factors decrease, the unit still exhibits a positive behavior even if individual's pro-environmental energy behavior might falter.…”

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Pro-Environmental Energy Behavior in the Military: Assessing Behavior Change Factors at a Selected Military Unit

2020

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The purpose of this study is to explore how pro-environmental energy behavior is manifested at a military unit and what behavioral change factors can enhance such behavior. The military unit represents an organization dominated by an exceptionally strong sense of community and belonging where individual pro-environmental energy behavior goes in line with a collective one. The application of Capability-Opportunity-Motivation-Behavior (COM-B) approach led to a better understanding of energy-saving behavior in the military as an organization where personnel are trained to increase their awareness of their peers’ behavior. Methods: The results were obtained using data collected from two independent samples of both professional soldiers and conscripts at a military unit of Lithuanian defense forces located in a fixed installation in the time frame of 2018–2019. The total sample of respondents (professional soldiers and conscripts) was N = 454. A series of statistical tests were performed at the 0.05 level of confidence. Results: An extended COM-B model for the analysis of pro-environmental energy behavior in the military was proposed and applied. The results show that the three behavioral change factors—capability, opportunity, and motivation—are first of all positively linked with the collective energy behavior at the military unit and only then with the individual soldier’s pro-environmental energy behavior. This is a new insight into the COM-B model as collective and individual behavior are identified as separate indicators and then combined into a single measurable construct. In addition, the results indicate that in the military unit, communality plays an important role in sustaining pro-environmental energy behavior, even if an individual behavior indicates low-involvement.

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“…Research agenda setting by governments, field experts, communities and organisations has received substantial attention in the literature (e.g. Andrews and Johnson 2016). The type of research agenda setting practised by organisations such as research-funding agencies, which is generally associated with government priorities for national development, is relatively straightforward and usually less complex than the process followed by researchers, whose careers increasingly follow non-linear paths (Cantwell 2011).…”

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An instrument to measure individuals’ research agenda setting: the multi-dimensional research agendas inventory

Horta

Santos

2016

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This study developed the Multi-Dimensional Research Agendas Inventory to measure the key factors associated with the process of research agenda setting. Research agendas reflect the preferences, strategies, influences and goals that guide researchers' decisions to investigate specific topics. The results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses indicated that the instrument has eight distinct dimensions: Scientific Ambition, Convergence, Divergence, Discovery, Conservative, Tolerance for Low Funding, Mentor Influence and Collaboration. The model underlying the instrument exhibited a very good fit [X 2 /df = 1.710; CFI = 0.961; PCFI = 0.791; RMSEA = 0.035; P(rmsea B 0.05) \ 0.001], and the instrument itself was found to have excellent measuring properties (in terms of validity, reliability and sensitivity). Potential interpretations of the instrument and its implications for research and practice are also discussed in this article.

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Energy use, behavioral change, and business organizations: Reviewing recent findings and proposing a future research agenda

Cited by 79 publications

References 69 publications

The relationship between Corporate Environmental Responsibility, employees’ biospheric values and pro-environmental behaviour at work

The relationship between Corporate Environmental Responsibility, employees’ biospheric values and pro-environmental behaviour at work

Pro-Environmental Energy Behavior in the Military: Assessing Behavior Change Factors at a Selected Military Unit

An instrument to measure individuals’ research agenda setting: the multi-dimensional research agendas inventory

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