Understanding Cultural Differences in the Antecedents of Pro-Environmental Behavior: A Comparative Analysis of Business Students in the United States and Chile

Cordano, Mark; Welcomer, Stephanie A.; Scherer, Robert F.; Pradenas, Lorena; Parada, Víctor

doi:10.1080/00958960903439997

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“…For example, more‐acculturated U.S. Latin‐Americans appear to be less environmentally concerned than less‐acculturated U.S. Latin‐Americans (Schultz, Unipan, & Gamba, 2000). However, business students in Chile (who are presumably not acculturated to the U.S.) exhibit more environmental concern and stronger intentions to engage in pro‐environmental behaviour than U.S. business students (Cordano, Welcomer, Scherer, Pradenas, & Parada, ). Another study found that, in the U.S., immigrants in general have environmental attitudes that are similar to those of non‐immigrants, but that newer immigrants express greater concern than native‐born Americans (Hunter, ).…”

Section: Social Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personal and social factors that influence pro-environmental concern and behaviour: A review

2014

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We review the personal and social influences on pro-environmental concern and behaviour, with an emphasis on recent research. The number of these influences suggests that understanding pro-environmental concern and behaviour is far more complex than previously thought. The influences are grouped into 18 personal and social factors. The personal factors include childhood experience, knowledge and education, personality and self-construal, sense of control, values, political and world views, goals, felt responsibility, cognitive biases, place attachment, age, gender and chosen activities. The social factors include religion, urban-rural differences, norms, social class, proximity to problematic environmental sites and cultural and ethnic variations We also recognize that pro-environmental behaviour often is undertaken based on none of the above influences, but because individuals have non-environmental goals such as to save money or to improve their health. Finally, environmental outcomes that are a result of these influences undoubtedly are determined by combinations of the 18 categories. Therefore, a primary goal of researchers now should be to learn more about how these many influences moderate and mediate one another to determine pro-environmental behaviour.

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Section: Social Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personal and social factors that influence pro-environmental concern and behaviour: A review

2014

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“…An individual's attitude can be defined as the degree to which a person has a favourable or unfavourable evaluation or appraisal of the target behaviour and its associated consequences (Ajzen 1991;Cordano et al 2010b;Martín-Peña, Díaz-Garrido & Sánchez-López 2010). In this article, the attitude of an SME owner towards an environmental management system is the degree to which the owner has a favourable or unfavourable evaluation or appraisal of implementing an environmental management system.…”

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“…Five items measured PBC. These items were based on the research of Hillary (2004) Cordano et al (2010b). For the attitude towards environmental management system implementation scale, nine items were used.…”

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South African small and medium-sized enterprise owners’ intention to implement an environmental management system

Struwig

Lillah

2017

SAJESBM

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Background: Environmental problems present the most complex and important managerial challenges of the 21st century. Most businesses have responded to these environmental problems by adopting an environmental management system.Aim: This article investigates South African small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owners’ intentions to implement an environmental management system based on the theory of planned behaviour.Setting: Although large businesses are clearly of interest with respect to their environmental management, especially given their prominence in many of the most environmentally impactful sectors, the relative neglect of the environmental management of SMEs is disconcerting, given their overall importance in most economies. In addition, very little research used the theory of planned behaviour to empirically test SME owners’ intentions, to implement an environmental management system.Method: A quantitative survey was used to collect primary data from 326 SME owners by a structured questionnaire.Results: Regression analysis results confirmed the influence of SME owners’ attitudes towards an environmental management system and pro-environmental norms on their intention to implement an environmental management system. Perceived behavioural control, however, did not significantly influence the SME owners’ intention to implement an environmental management system.Conclusion: These findings provide valuable insights into the implementation of environmental management systems among South African SMEs. The theory of planned behaviour also seems to be an appropriate means to investigate the intentions of SMEs to implement an environmental management system.

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“…The literature review showed that there are diverse studies on the pro-environmental behaviour in which cultural differences are found between nations [20,[113][114][115]. Therefore, specific hypotheses are stated as follows:…”

Section: Hypothesis 1c (H1c) the Environmental Attitudes Directly Inmentioning

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The Environmental Attitudes and Behaviours of European Golf Tourists

López-Bonilla¹,

Reyes-Rodríguez²,

López-Bonilla³

2018

Sustainability

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Environmental attitudes and behaviours have received relatively little attention in golf tourism, compared to other tourism research areas. Golf tourism provides products and services based on nature, and they should focus on the environment. Golf has become increasingly important in the development of European tourism within the last decade. Moreover, golf is one of the primary motivations for European tourists in the sports tourism sector. This study is based on a sample of 431 golf tourists, from different nationalities, who visit Andalusia, Spain. This research examines the relationship between environmental attitudes and behavioural intentions for three subsamples of European nationalities: British, German, and Spanish. This relationship was corroborated in the three subsamples. However, the national citizenship of European golf tourists was not a moderator effect on the relationship between environmental attitudes and behavioural intentions.

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Understanding Cultural Differences in the Antecedents of Pro-Environmental Behavior: A Comparative Analysis of Business Students in the United States and Chile

Cited by 69 publications

References 40 publications

Personal and social factors that influence pro-environmental concern and behaviour: A review

Personal and social factors that influence pro-environmental concern and behaviour: A review

South African small and medium-sized enterprise owners’ intention to implement an environmental management system

The Environmental Attitudes and Behaviours of European Golf Tourists

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