Stakeholder greening pressures, green practices and agency enhancing systems: evidence from Brazil

Vasquez-Brust, D, Jabbour, C, Plaza-Ubeda, J, Jabbour, AB, Perez-Valls, M and Renwick, D ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6819-5746, 2022. Stakeholder greening pressures, green practices and agency enhancing systems: evidence from Brazil. Business Strategy and the Environment. ISSN 0964-4733 (Forthcoming)

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Abstract

We propose and test an original conceptual framework explaining variations in the implementation of two complementary types of green practice – environmental protection hardware (EPH) and environmental protection software (EPS). Drawing on the Ability, Motivation, Opportunity (AMO) framework, we conceptualize that increased green pressure from stakeholders drives the adoption of both types of green practices, but also triggers human problems such as lack of skills, lack of motivation, lack of opportunities and perceptions of unfairness, thus increasing the costs of practice adoption and implementation. Organisations can level the field for the application of EPS and EPH with a system of green human resource management (GHRM) practices -training, assessment, rewards and teamwork- to channel the translation of stakeholder pressures into meaningful workplace green practices. Empirical data from companies in Brazil is analysed using structural equation models and confirms our hypothesis; also showing that the mediating role of GHRM is higher for EPH than it is for EPS.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Business Strategy and the Environment
Creators:	Vasquez-Brust, D., Jabbour, C., Plaza-Ubeda, J., Jabbour, A.B., Perez-Valls, M. and Renwick, D.
Publisher:	Wiley
Date:	8 November 2022
ISSN:	0964-4733
Identifiers:	Number Type 1616848 Other
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	14 Nov 2022 09:23
Last Modified:	14 Nov 2022 09:23
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/47387

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