International Businesses and Environmental Issues

İnce, Fatma

doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-3990-2.ch004

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“…Many organizations worldwide cause contamination of the environment, which has become a concern for researchers and policymakers [ 1 ]. Environmental dilapidation adversely affects living beings and even nonliving beings around.…”

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Improving the Environmental Footprint through Employees: A Case of Female Leaders from the Perspective of CSR

Wei

Sial

Zhou

et al. 2021

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Environmental quality strongly depends on human behavior patterns. Many environmental challenges are rooted in human actions, and thus, it is believed that these problems can be reduced through the promotion of pro-environmental behaviors (PB). Owing to this reality, the current study aims to reduce the environmental footprint of a hospital by promoting its employees’ environment-specific behavior via corporate social responsibility (CSR) and ethical leadership (EL). More importantly, the study also considered the role of female leaders in the proposed relationship. The current study collected the data from the respondents employed in different hospitals of a developing economy through a questionnaire (paper-pencil method). A total of 489 valid responses were collected, which were analyzed by employing the structural equation modeling (SEM) technique. As per the current study’s findings, there is a positive relationship between CSR, while EL mediates between CSR and PB. Likewise, the moderating role of female leaders in the proposed relationship was more significant than that of male leaders. More specifically, the study’s findings have considerable theoretical and practical implications, as it opens paths for researchers to further investigate the applicability of different dimensions of CSR and the role of gender in environmental sustainability. It provides insight to policymakers on how to restructure their CSR preferences, priorities on the environment, and gender differences.

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Improving the Environmental Footprint through Employees: A Case of Female Leaders from the Perspective of CSR

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Zhou

et al. 2021

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“…Specifically, Morelli (2011) defined it as a condition of balance, resilience and interconnectedness that allows human society to satisfy its needs while neither exceeding the capacity of its supporting ecosystems to continue to regenerate the services necessary to meet those needs nor by our actions diminishing biological diversity. As argued, environmental sustainability can therefore be defined as "meeting human needs without compromising the health of ecosystems" (Ince, 2018).…”

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Climate change and ecological sustainability in Zimbabwe: Interrogating the role of Higher Education Institutions in disaster management

Macheka

2024

Climate Resilience

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Zimbabwe has been hit by a number of cyclones in the last two decades, namely Cyclone Eline in 2000, Cyclone Japhet in 2003, Cyclone Dineo in 2017, Cyclone Idai in 2019, Tropical Storm Chalane in 2020, Cyclone Eloise in 2021, Cyclone Ana in 2022 and Cyclone Freddy in 2023. Resultantly, the issue of ecological sustainability becomes a key priority issue in the country, and thus, all key stakeholders’ participation becomes imperative. Against this background, the study interrogates the level of participation and inclusion of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in climate change and disaster management in Zimbabwe. This qualitative research adopted a mixed research approach where data were gathered and generated through self‐administered and online questionnaires, focus group discussions, key informant interviews and document review. Findings revealed that the available laws, structures and mechanisms for climate change management and disaster prevention do not have provision for the participation of HEIs. The study further established mixed views among the participants regarding the efforts by HEIs in climate change and disaster management. On one hand, academics and students highlighted roles of HEIs in climate change management, and these include material donations, knowledge creation, training community on climate mainstreaming, awareness campaigns, leading climate change adaptation projects, leading climate change mitigation projects and testing and deployment of innovative practices. On the other, communities voiced their concern on the low level of participation by HEIs. Results illustrate that HEIs do not fully participate in ecological sustainability outside the academia realm. Therefore, the study concludes that in order to realize ecological sustainability, these policy gaps and inconsistences and failures could be bridged by allowing HEIs as centres of knowledge creation to be key players in climate change and disaster management. The ‘business as usual’ approach to environmental challenges could be changed to being key players in addressing climate change issues.

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“…(Paco, et al, 2009) While psychographic characteristics include an attribute as personality, which is regarded as a factor that affects an individual sensitivity towards the environment and engaging in pro-environment practices. (Ince, 2018) The American Psychology Association defines personality (APA) as the "individual differences in characteristics patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving". In addition, our social values, memories, and the relationship that we have with other shape our personalities.…”

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“…Needs to increase their perception of environmental sustainability, since perception of values and risks occurring to the environment can cause increase in participation. (Ince, 2018) Therefore, the research problem that the researcher is interested to search is as follows:…”

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Measuring Consumers’ Perception of Environmental Sustainability on Recycling Behavior with the Moderating Role of their Characteristics

مدكور

2023

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The globe is facing a tremendous challenge which is the ability to attain sustainability in general and environmental sustainability in specific. This pressing issue is evident especially due to the projected population exceeding nine billion and per capita buying power expected to exceed double by 2050. Furthermore, the globe is facing water scarcity, shortages in the food supply, fossil, energy, and the need to protect human health. These challenges demand sustainable development. The Arab Republic of Egypt being part of the globe; is facing the same challenges and has the same pressing need for sustainable development in general and environmental sustainability precisely. Although Egypt is regarded as one of the least countries adding to the global emissions yet, it is one of the most counties affected by it. Besides, Egypt is facing a massive problem in its inability to manage its waste, which in turn hinders its ability to aid in environmental sustainability. Egypt's inability to aid in environmental sustainability affects its citizens; since it is the reason behind illness, gas emissions, and the like. As a result, waste management in Egypt is crucial, which could be achieved through reducing, reusing, recycling, and recovery of solid waste. Waste management can't be achieved unless people are involved in the process. This involvement can take place in the form of participating in pro-environmental behavior such as recycling. Hence it is important to determine their perception of environmental sustainability, this will in return, induce a change in their behavior toward the environment. After testing the impact of the perception of environmental sustainability as an independent variable on recycling behavior as a dependent variable. The researcher concluded that the target population who tend to perceive the benefits of sustaining the environment and the risks associated if they acted otherwise, do participate in recycling behavior yet the participation is weak. Last, the researcher reached the conclusion that certain demographic and psychographic moderating factors do affect the strength of the relationship, yet the impact is insignificant.

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International Businesses and Environmental Issues

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Improving the Environmental Footprint through Employees: A Case of Female Leaders from the Perspective of CSR

Improving the Environmental Footprint through Employees: A Case of Female Leaders from the Perspective of CSR

Climate change and ecological sustainability in Zimbabwe: Interrogating the role of Higher Education Institutions in disaster management

Measuring Consumers’ Perception of Environmental Sustainability on Recycling Behavior with the Moderating Role of their Characteristics

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