Amid rising global concerns around social inequality and environmental degradation, this study examines the impact of social entrepreneurship orientation (SEO) and environmental orientation (EO) on sustainability outcomes among firms in Ecuador-an emerging economy with a progressive regulatory...

Advocating for low-carbon residential energy usage is crucial for attaining China's carbon neutrality objectives. This study utilizes a stratified survey of 741 households in Zhongshan to investigate the interplay between educational attainment and environmental responsibility awareness in...

This paper evaluates whether environmental education can shift household behavior through intergenerational transmission of knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes. We implement an activity-based program in Patna, India, and conduct a randomized experiment with 1,545 child-parent pairs assigned to...

Within the framework of the circular economy, extending the lifespan of electrical products through repairing them is a promising approach, particularly against the backdrop of growing e-waste levels. Consumers play a key role in facilitating repair and multiple studies have suggested their...

How does firms' skill demand change as the business landscape evolves? We present evidence from the green transition by analyzing how hurricanes impact demand for green skills. These disasters signal the risks of not acting on environmental issues. We use data from U.S. online job postings...

This paper analyzes the causal effect of exposure to uncensored environmental reporting on individuals' environmental preferences and pro-environmental behavior. We exploit a natural experiment occurring in the German Democratic Republic, where geographic characteristics determined access to...

Literature supports the notion that green human resource management (HRM), an emerging and effective HRM strategy, leads to superior environmental performance. Yet, insufficient attention has been paid to whether green HRM can improve organisations' green innovation, and on the impact that...

As sustainability becomes a strategic priority, the Information Technology (IT) sector faces pressure on both reducing its environmental impact and leading in innovation. This study examines how Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) practices influence employees' Green IT Attitudes (GITA) and...

Previous studies on innovative work behavior (GIWB) have mainly focused on exploring its favorable sustainable consequences and its unseen potential harmful outcomes. To address this gap, this study sought to explore the associations between GIWB and perceived greenwashing, work exhaustion, and...

This study examines the relationship between green finance and environmental sustainability in Nepal from 1990 to 2023. Constructing the index for financial development by using Principal Component Analysis (PCA), the relationship is explored using Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) followed...

Despite widespread concern about climate change, voluntary mitigation efforts often fail to maximize impact. In two online experiments (n = 1, 500), we elicit willingness to mitigate (WTM) by allowing subjects to delete actual CO2 allowances and examine how they allocate the WTM between their...

Purpose - Water resources are fundamental to achieving sustainable development. Households play a critical role in global water conservation efforts, directly supporting the attainment ofseveral Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This study expands the knowledge-attitude-behavior (KAB) model...

Purpose - This study examines how green transformational leadership and green motivation improve organizational environmental performance and investigatesthe mediating effect of eco-friendly behavior. While the relationship between green practices and employee engagement in ecological protection...

Sustainable fashion consumption can be promoted only by understanding the motivation behind consumers' decision to purchase sustainable clothing. This study explores the determinants of consumers' purchasing intentions for two clothing items with different functions, characterized by different...

What do consumers do with their used clothing, books, and children's toys? In this research, we introduce metaphoric "fresh start" messaging as an effective tactic to encourage consumers to engage in environmentally sustainable actions of donating used products for remanufacture or reuse....

There is an important research tradition concerning the financial implications of social and environmental ethics. This study investigates the short- and long-term financial performance of ventures with explicit environmental commitments seeking to raise funds in equity crowdfunding (ECF)...

This study investigates the impact of minimalism on ethical consumption within the framework of the Value–Identity–Personal Norms (VIP) model. Data were collected from 340 Turkish consumers using a convenience sampling method and an online survey. Analyses were conducted with SmartPLS,...

China's low-carbon city pilot policy (LCCPP) plays a crucial role in reducing carbon pollution and promoting green development. It stimulates enterprises' green innovation (GI), such as through the promotion of circular carbon technologies and energy-efficient practices. However, a negative...

This study examines the impact of Environmentally Specific Servant Leadership (ESSL) on employees' pro-environmental behavior (PEB) by proposing a serial mediation model that incorporates green psychological empowerment and green creativity as central mechanisms. Guided by social exchange theory...

This study explores the role of ethical leadership in fostering employee green behaviors (EGBs) within higher education institutions (HEIs) in the UAE. While environmental initiatives are increasingly being integrated into university operations, there has been limited empirical research...

he energy transition is not only topical in an European context, but has important ramification for the Global South. In his master’s thesis, Jakob Rammer addresses this global dimension and provides a nuanced analysis of energy projects in Chile supported by European actors. Using the example...