Sense of Emergency for the Environment and Commitment to Environmental Protection

Ji Li, Wanxing Jiang, Jieying Xu, Ying Zhang, Wenwen Song

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    Abstract

    This paper adopts an institutional approach to study the effects of social institutions on the relationship between sense of emergency for the environment and commitment to environmental protection at the individual level. It also compares the relative importance of three types of social institutions, i.e., the regulative, the normative and the cognitive institutions, in terms of their moderating effects. Using a large sample (N=23443) from 21 countries, we conduct regression and HLM analyses, and the results from these analyses show direct effects of all the three-level social institutions on commitment for the environment. Moreover, the regulative social institution moderates the relationship between sense of emergency for the environment and commitment for the environment negatively, while the cognitive social institution moderates the relationship between sense of emergency for the environment and commitment for the environment positively. This paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of these empirical findings.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationAcademy of Management Proceedings 2016
    EditorsSonia Taneja
    PublisherAcademy of Management
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2016
    Event76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2016: Making Organizations Meaningful - Anaheim, United States
    Duration: 5 Aug 20169 Aug 2016
    https://aom.org/events/annual-meeting/past-annual-meetings/2016-making-organizations-meaningful (Conference website)
    https://journals.aom.org/toc/amproc/2016/1 (Conference proceedings)
    http://my.aom.org/ProgramDocs/2016/pdf/AOM_2016_Annual_Meeting_Program.pdf

    Publication series

    NameAcademy of Management Proceedings
    Number1
    Volume2016
    ISSN (Print)0065-0668
    ISSN (Electronic)2151-6561

    Conference

    Conference76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2016
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityAnaheim
    Period5/08/169/08/16
    Internet address

    User-Defined Keywords

    • Commitment to environmental protection
    • Sense of emergency for the environment

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