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Linking environmental management accounting to green organisational behaviour: The mediating role of green human resource management

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  • Liping Liu
  • Chunyu Zhang

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The China’s economy is developing rapidly, and it affects the environment on several levels. Therefore, this study examines the effect of environmental management accounting, green human resource management (HRM), on green organisational behaviour (OB). We collected 383 questionnaires completed by human resource managers and accounting managers in the Chinese hospitality industry. We used a covariance-based structural equation model to test the hypotheses in this study. The empirical evidence shows a positive and significant effect between environmental management accounting (monetary environmental management accounting, and physical environmental management accounting) and green HRM (β = 0.262, p

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  • Liping Liu & Chunyu Zhang, 2022. "Linking environmental management accounting to green organisational behaviour: The mediating role of green human resource management," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(12), pages 1-16, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0279568
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0279568
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