Management Motivation, Ethical Responsibility or Social Pressure: How Top Managers Improve Green Behaviors Through Behavioral Strategic Control?

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(7), P. 3111 - 3111

Published: April 1, 2025

Improving green behaviors has become an essential strategy for organizations due to its significant impact on organizational reputation, competitiveness, and performance. However, there is still a lack of understanding how managers perceive innovation practices in emerging economies. Therefore, this study examines whether are motivated, or deem it ethical responsibility, have social pressure, improve behavioral strategic control moderates these relationships. Based data from 236 Chinese firms, our results indicate that top management motivation, pressure significantly enhance within organizations. contrary expectations, we found strategies negatively moderate the relationship between support behaviors. Moreover, do not responsibility Interestingly, findings reveal strengthen findings, recommend maintain balance ensure effectively contribute sustainable practices.

Language: Английский

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Does digital literacy affect farmers’ adoption of agricultural social services? An empirical study based on China Land Economic Survey data

PLoS ONE, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 20(4), P. e0320318 - e0320318

Published: April 23, 2025

Agricultural social services (ASS) are crucial in alleviating resource constraints and advancing agricultural modernization. Using the data derived from China Land Economic Survey (CLES2022), this study empirically investigates how digital literacy influences farmers’ adoption of ASS, employing both Probit Propensity score matching (PSM) models. Additionally, it explores mediating roles long-term production vision part-time employment degrees relationship. The findings are: (1) exhibited a statistically significant positive effect on ASS at 1% level. Moreover, impact varied among participants technology training, different education levels, varying levels risk preference; (2) act as mediators, enhancing ASS. Based these findings, recommendations have been developed to improve literacy, promote enhance well degree part-time.

Language: Английский

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Chinese Farmers’ Low-Carbon Agricultural Technology Adoption Behavior and Its Influencing Factors

Agriculture, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(10), P. 1055 - 1055

Published: May 13, 2025

Low-carbon agricultural technology (LCAT) is essential for China to achieve its carbon emissions peak by 2030 and neutrality 2060. Farmers’ adoption of LCAT crucial adapting mitigating climate change risks. This study explores the social-psychological factors shaping farmers’ behavior, utilizing Theory Planned Behavior Normative Activation Model. Survey data from 360 farmers in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Findings show that behavioral attitude, perceived control, subjective norms, personal norms have positive direct effects on adoption. The analyses also discovered four mediation paths indirectly influence adoption, including Subjective Norms → Personal Adoption Level; Consequence Awareness Responsibility Attribution Level. deepens our understanding mechanism underlying behavior. findings offer valuable insights promoting low-carbon technologies guiding policy development. Recommendations include leveraging social enhance educating ethical environmental stewardship, raising awareness farming’s impacts, providing incentives technical support reduce barriers.

Language: Английский

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Chinese farmers' intentions to control heavy metal pollution in cropland: an integration of PMT, TBP, and ATM

Sustainable Futures, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 100778 - 100778

Published: June 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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