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

Liping Liu, Chunyu Zhang
Author Information
  1. Liping Liu: School of Economics and Management, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, Guangxi, China.
  2. Chunyu Zhang: School of Economics and Management, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, Guangxi, China. ORCID

Abstract

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 < 0.01, β = 0.378, p< 0.01). Green HRM mediates the influence of environmental management accounting (monetary environmental management accounting, β = 0.059, p < 0.01; physical environmental management accounting, β = 0.084, p< 0.01) on green OB. The analysis confirmed the importance of environmental management accounting (as opposed to green human resource management) in predicting green behaviour and the critical role of green human resource management in connecting environmental management accounting and green OB. Thus, this study extends the literature's perspective on green OB to environmental management accounting and green HRM.

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MeSH Term

Humans
Conservation of Natural Resources
Group Dynamics
Industry
China

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