RT Article
T1 Enacting Ecological Sustainability in the MNC: A Test of an Adapted Value-Belief-Norm Framework
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 59
IS 3
SP 295
OP 305
A1 Andersson, Lynne
A1 Shivarajan, Sridevi
A1 Blau, Gary
A2 Shivarajan, Sridevi
A2 Blau, Gary
LA English
YR 2005
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785623931
AB Undoubtedly, multinational corporations must play a significant role in the advancement of global ecological ethics. Our research offers a glimpse into the process of how goals of ecological sustainability in one multinational corporation can trickle down through the organization via the sustainability support behaviors of supervisors. We asked the question “How do supervisors in a multinational corporation internalize their corporation’s commitment to ecological sustainability and, in turn, behave in ways that convey this commitment to their subordinates?” In response, we created a theoretical framework for supervisor sustainability support behavior based on Stern et al., Human Ecology Review 6(2), 81-97 (1999) value-belief-norm (VBN) theory. We then tested our framework by performing a survey-based field study of supervisors in a multinational pharmaceutical company that has publicly professed a goal of ecological sustainability.
K1 value-belief-norm theory
K1 supervisory support
K1 Sustainability
K1 Multinational Corporation
K1 ecological ethics
DO 10.1007/s10551-005-3440-x