The role of the dominant social paradigm in environmental attitudes: a multinational examination

Kilbourne, William E.; Beckmann, Suzanne C.; Thelen, Eva

doi:10.1016/s0148-2963(00)00141-7

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“…In particular, we refer to demands from the regulatory context, which play a key role in shaping both the firm's HRM system (Paawue and Boselie, 2004;Roheling, Posthuma, & Hickox, 2009) and its environmental management practices (Delmas and Toffel, 2004). Concerning the latter, several studies have demonstrated the key influence that pressure from regulatory stakeholders exercises on the implementation of voluntary environmental management practices (Rivera, 2004;Kilbourne, Beckmann, & Thelen, 2002), especially for firms that cannot rely on a wide set of organizational resources for environmental strategies (Clemens and Douglas, 2006). Therefore, we argue that companies experiencing pressure from regulatory stakeholders for the development of their environmental performance are more likely to implement environmental management practices with that aim.…”

Section: Stakeholder Pressures and Green Hrm Practicesmentioning

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Translating stakeholder pressures into environmental performance – the mediating role of green HRM practices

Guerci

Longoni

Luzzini

2015

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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This paper contributes to extant research on green Human Resource Management (HRM) relying on the instrumental value of stakeholder theory, which implies that stakeholders impact on company decisions and their development of organizational resources and performance. Following that theory, the study conceives green HRM practices as a set of management processes that companies implement for responding to stakeholder pressures on environmental issues. Accordingly with those premises, we empirically test the distinct role that different green HRM practices (i.e., green hiring, green training and involvement, and green performance management and compensation) play in mediating the relation between pressures on environmental issues from two specific external stakeholders (i.e., customers and regulatory stakeholders) and environmental performance. Our findings, based on a multirespondent survey in which the respondents were Human Resource Managers and Supply Chain Managers operating in Italy, confirm the hypothesized mediation model. Our results (as well as their implications) are discussed in light of the recent calls to broaden the scope of HRM research, considering the embeddedness of the company in a socio-political context and exploring the role that actors and factors outside the company play in shaping its green HRM practices.

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Section: Stakeholder Pressures and Green Hrm Practicesmentioning

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Translating stakeholder pressures into environmental performance – the mediating role of green HRM practices

Guerci

Longoni

Luzzini

2015

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

378

327

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“…As a starting point, we would advocate the comparative study of a wider range of sectors. As shown by Kilbourne et al (2002) the differences between countries should also be considered in this way.…”

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Comparing sustainable consumption patterns across product sectors

McDonald

Oates

Thyne

et al. 2009

Int J Consumer Studies

106

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In this paper, we present findings from two qualitative studies where we explored sustainable consumption practices through examining consumers' information search and decision‐making processes for recent purchases of five categories of goods/services: fast moving consumer goods (such as foodstuffs and household products), white goods (such as fridges and washing machines), small electrical products (such as TVs and computers), green energy tariffs (such as electricity from renewable sources) and tourism (such as flights). This research has provided us with a set of rich data which explores the nature and extent of sustainable consumption practices across different product sectors. A comparative analysis has allowed us to draw out patterns of consumer behaviour for different product and service types. Our findings suggest that even the same green consumer will not use the same information sources or decision‐making criteria, consider the same options or focus on the same industry actors, for products in different sectors. However, we have identified some degree of consistency in purchases within sectors. We present these sector‐specific patterns of consumer behaviour and highlight differences in the criteria utilized and the research norms in each sector.

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“…By particularly focusing on aspects such as the dominant social paradigm of Western industrial societies (Kilbourne, Beckmann, & Thelen, 2002), individuals' materialistic and ecological values (Kilbourne & Pickett, 2008), and consumerism (Barksdale & Darden, 1972), the emphasis is on the role of macro environment (e.g., technological, political, economical) in influencing society's values and beliefs (Stern, Dietz, & Guagnano, 1995).…”

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Antecedents and outcomes of consumer environmentally friendly attitudes and behaviour

Leonidou¹,

Leonidou²,

Kvasova³

2010

Journal of Marketing Management

306

248

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The role of the dominant social paradigm in environmental attitudes: a multinational examination

Cited by 263 publications

References 37 publications

Translating stakeholder pressures into environmental performance – the mediating role of green HRM practices

Translating stakeholder pressures into environmental performance – the mediating role of green HRM practices

Comparing sustainable consumption patterns across product sectors

Antecedents and outcomes of consumer environmentally friendly attitudes and behaviour

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