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

In: Proceedings of the 2023 4th International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM 2023)

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  • Qi’ang Du

    (Huazhong Agricultural University, College of Public Administration)

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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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  • Qi’ang Du, 2024. "Does Environmental Morality Need the Restriction of Pressures? An Empirical Analysis of the Construction Corporations," Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, in: Suhaiza Hanim Binti Dato Mohamad Zailani & Kosga Yagapparaj & Norhayati Zakuan (ed.), Proceedings of the 2023 4th International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM 2023), pages 1583-1590, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:advbcp:978-94-6463-256-9_161
    DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-256-9_161
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