Chinese firms’ sustainable development—The role of future orientation, environmental commitment, and employee training

Liu, Zhiqiang; Li, Ji; Hong, Zhu; Cai, Zhenyao; Wang, Luning

doi:10.1007/s10490-012-9291-y

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“…While it is likely that not all Chinese citizens agreed, many with a more nationalist bent likely sided with their own government against Google. This would make it very difficult, if not impossible, for firms like Google and Yahoo to be viewed as “necessary” or “inevitable”—crucial ingredients underpinning cognitive legitimacy (Liu et al, ).…”

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Toward a legitimacy-based view of political risk: The case of Google and Yahoo in China

2015

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Traditional political risk theories often focus on a developing host country government's ability to intervene in the activities of foreign multinationals in the extractive or infrastructure sectors. This results in inadequate understanding of (1) how a government's motivation to intervene is influenced by the broader societal context, (2) the importance of multinationals' political risk at home, and (3) the increasing political risk faced by high‐tech and service firms. We argue that there is a need to update the bargaining power and political institutions theories and further develop a legitimacy‐based view of political risk. Then, we examine the political risk experienced by Google and Yahoo at home and abroad due to their activities in China to illustrate the benefits of a holistic approach to political risk. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Toward a legitimacy-based view of political risk: The case of Google and Yahoo in China

2015

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“…Recent studies suggest that the motivation and training of employees not only positively impact firms' achievement of their environmental goals but also act as a major driver in achieving green maturity by firms (Renwick et al, 2013;Wagner, 2013;Jabbour 2013). In the context of Chinese firms, research finds firms that provide their employees with intense levels of training witnessed the most intense environmental sustainability performance (Ji et al, 2012;Liu et al, 2013).…”

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Green competence framework: evidence from China

Subramanian

Abdulrahman

et al. 2015

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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Recently Human Resources Management (HRM) functions such as recruitment, selection, training and performance evaluation are expected in considering environmental management (EM) issues. Environmental protective acts with adequate ecological knowledge and socioeconomic behavior and skills are referred to in this paper as green competencies. However, a systematic approach for developing and understanding key factors that enhance individuals' green competencies is lacking. This study contributes to green human resource literature by integrating environmental consumer behavior literature with traditional skills and competencies literature to help firms to select the right individuals to achieve their environmental goals. Using Robert's competencies framework and structural equation modeling (SEM), this paper empirically examines the influence of individual green competencies on organizations' green practices and performance objectives. Our model is tested using a sample of 1,230 employees working in key industries in the Chinese coastal city of Ningbo. The results indicate that acquired green competencies are more positively associated with individuals' green competencies and green behavior. The study empirically demonstrates that verifying acquired green competence attributes such as environmental knowledge, green purchase attitude and intention during employee selection would certainly be helpful for firms to identify individual green performance potential.

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“…The effectiveness of implementing sustainable development programs may depend on the degree to which organizations emphasize organizational ethics. Since companies need to find an appropriate way to support and maintain sustainable development, ethics in the workplace seems to be supportive of corporate sustainable development (CSD) [18]. This is because ethics focuses on the long-term development of human society [18].…”

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“…Since companies need to find an appropriate way to support and maintain sustainable development, ethics in the workplace seems to be supportive of corporate sustainable development (CSD) [18]. This is because ethics focuses on the long-term development of human society [18]. The establishment of organizational ethics that is composed of an ethical climate and culture in organizations, encourages good sustainable development practices [19].…”

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Role of Organizational Ethics in Sustainable Development: A Conceptual Framework

Wesarat¹,

Sharif²,

Majid³

2017

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The focus of many organizations worldwide has been changing from greater productivity and profit maximization to sustainable development. Those organizations that focus on profit-only often make shortterm decisions without concern for long-run sustainable benefits. The concept of organizational ethics has been widely discussed as it may provide the means to long-term business success. This paper considers the basis of organizational ethics as an integration of ethical climate and culture in organizations that has an important impact on ethical decision-making and outcomes, which in turn could lead to sustainable development. The challenge of businesses is to remain ethical to stakeholders under conditions of uncertainty. They are expected to serve sustainable development not only for the benefits of themselves, but also the interests of others in society.

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Chinese firms’ sustainable development—The role of future orientation, environmental commitment, and employee training

Cited by 58 publications

References 33 publications

Toward a legitimacy-based view of political risk: The case of Google and Yahoo in China

Toward a legitimacy-based view of political risk: The case of Google and Yahoo in China

Green competence framework: evidence from China

Role of Organizational Ethics in Sustainable Development: A Conceptual Framework

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