To be green or not to be: How environmental regulations shape contractor greenwashing behaviors in construction projects

He, Qigai; Wang, Zilun; Wang, Ge; Zuo, Jian; Wu, Guangdong; Liu, Bingsheng

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2020.102462

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“…Moreover, regulatory pressure is the primary source of institutional pressure on MSRB (H 1a ), while the normative pressure and cultural cognitive pressure have no significant effect on MSRB (H 1b and H 1c ). This finding is mainly due to regulatory pressure playing an important role in megaproject participants' behavior, as echoed in He's et al (2020) finding that sufficient government regulatory pressure can improve the contractor's environmental behavior. However, normative pressure and cultural cognitive pressure can only be created and formed by a large number of organizational actors, which means that normative pressure and cultural cognitive pressure could hardly be developed when there are still relatively few megaprojects being constructed.…”

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Influence of Institutional Pressure on Megaproject Social Responsibility Behavior

Xie

Han

et al. 2022

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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To explore the law of megaproject social responsibility behavior (MSRB) among internal organizations under institutional pressure, this paper presents a theoretical and empirical study to investigate how institutional pressure affects MSRB through the mediating role of organizational social responsibility cognition and the mediating roles of the communication mechanism and relationship strength based on new institutional sociology. Based on a total of 147 responses from a broad questionnaire survey, structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to test the proposed hypotheses. The research results show that institutional pressure has a promoting effect on MSRB, and organizational social responsibility cognition mediates the relationship between institutional pressure and MSRB. Additionally, the communication mechanism and relationship strength have no effect on the relationship between institutional pressures and MSRB. The research results provide a new theoretical foundation for the analysis of MSRB and practical suggestions for policymakers on the governance of MSRB.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Influence of Institutional Pressure on Megaproject Social Responsibility Behavior

Xie

Han

et al. 2022

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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“…Meanwhile, the concept of humanistic sentiment can also be incorporated into the evaluation system to assess the trust relationship between the local government and farmers. Finally, information asymmetry leads to opportunistic behaviors [134,135]; Thus, it is necessary to establish an independent regulatory agency for cultivated land protection to avoid misinterpretation of the central government's requirements [136].…”

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confidence: 99%

Unraveling Risk Networks of Cultivated Land Protection: An Exploratory Stakeholder-Oriented Case Study in Xiliuhe Town, Hubei Province, China

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Cai

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The protection of cultivated land plays an important role in ensuring food security, maintaining social stability, and promoting economic development. The protection of cultivated land involves a range of stakeholders (e.g., governments at different levels, farmers, and land-use organizations) and entails intertwined risk factors (e.g., to economic, environmental, social, and political factors). Therefore, it is crucial to identify and assess key stakeholders and associated risks to better align land protection policies. However, previous studies of risk are fragmented, and there has been little research targeting the complex interactions among risk factors in the protection of cultivated land. Taking Xiliuhe Town as an example, this study analyzes complex and intertwined risk factors from a network perspective in an in-depth case study in a major grain-producing area. The results show that: (1) the risk-factor network of cultivated land protection is relatively sparse, with a total of 142 nodes and 253 links; (2) local governments and land flow-out farmers are the core stakeholders, with strong power and connectivity in the network; (3) taking into account key stakeholders and associated risk factors, a framework for mitigating risks is developed, and a network simulation is performed. Using the simulation results, the effectiveness of the risk-mitigation strategies is assessed and validated. These results shed new light on cultivated land protection and sustainable agricultural development in emerging countries.

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“…Green total productivity refers to the total factor productivity estimated by taking pollutant emissions as unpaid inputs and introducing them into the production function together with capital, labor, and energy inputs [ 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ]. To improve GTFP, the Chinese government has formulated and improved a series of environmental policies to promote high-quality economic development [ 11 ], such as “ambient air quality standard” and “air pollution prevention and control law”.…”

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Does Environmental Regulation Improve the Green Total Factor Productivity of Chinese Cities? A Threshold Effect Analysis Based on the Economic Development Level

Cheng

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Improvement of green total factor productivity (GTFP) through environmental regulation is of great practical significance in promoting the high-quality development of urban economies. Based on panel data for 163 cities in China from 2003 to 2016, five indicators were selected to quantify the effects of environmental regulation: the SO2 removal rate, smoke and dust removal rate, solid waste utilization rate, domestic sewage treatment rate, and waste harmless treatment rate. This study evaluated the impact of environmental regulation on urban GTFP, and analyzed the threshold effect of urban economic development levels. The research results showed that the impact of environmental regulations on GTFP changed as the level of urban economic development increases. When the economic development level was low, environmental regulation had a significant positive effect on GTFP, especially the SO2 removal rate. When the economy developed to reach a medium level, the impact of environmental regulation on GTFP was negative. When the economic development level was high, the SO2 removal rate still had a significant positive impact on GTFP. The solid waste utilization rate had a significant negative impact on GTFP. It was concluded that the government should consider the local economic development level when formulating environmental regulation policies.

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To be green or not to be: How environmental regulations shape contractor greenwashing behaviors in construction projects

Cited by 87 publications

References 81 publications

Influence of Institutional Pressure on Megaproject Social Responsibility Behavior

Influence of Institutional Pressure on Megaproject Social Responsibility Behavior

Unraveling Risk Networks of Cultivated Land Protection: An Exploratory Stakeholder-Oriented Case Study in Xiliuhe Town, Hubei Province, China

Does Environmental Regulation Improve the Green Total Factor Productivity of Chinese Cities? A Threshold Effect Analysis Based on the Economic Development Level

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