Does Environmental Morality Need the Restriction of Pressures? An Empirical Analysis of the Construction Corporations

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10.2991/978-94-6463-256-9_161How to use a DOI?

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Environmental morality; Corporation management; Necessary conditions analysis; Coercive pressure; Normative pressure; Mimetic pressure; Economic pressure

Abstract

Rapid urbanization triggers more demand for buildings and infrastructure; thus, construction corporations need to take on more environmental responsibility. There is a decoupling of environmental morality in construction corporations, i.e. environmental moral disengagement (EMD), which is likely to serious failures in corporate management matters (e.g. greenwashing behaviors). Construction corporations frequently use unethical behavior, i.e., EMD, to justify their actions, which eventually prevents society from developing sustainably. Through the lens of neo-institutional theory and resource dependence theory, this study applies the necessary conditions analysis (NCA) to examine the importance of four types of pressure in regulating construction corporations’ EMD. The results of NCA show that coercive pressure, normative pressure, and mimetic pressure have inhibitory effects on EMD. However, economic pressure positively contributes to EMD and its effect has been present since the birth of EMD. This study provides contingent suggestions for the development of environmentally sensitive corporations in their moral behavior in combination with a multi-dimensional pressure circumstance.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Qi’ang Du
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/10/09
TI  - Does Environmental Morality Need the Restriction of Pressures? An Empirical Analysis of the Construction Corporations
BT  - Proceedings of the 2023 4th International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1583
EP  - 1590
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-256-9_161
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-256-9_161
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