How to Promote the Agricultural Company Through Environmental Social Responsibility to Achieve Sustainable Production?

Stanley Y B Huang,Yue-Shi Lee,Chun-Chieh Yu

doi:10.3389/fenvs.2021.770783

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Abstract

This survey employs the multilevel growth curve model to demonstrate how to promote the development of the company’s environmental innovation in agricultural companies specializing in the agricultural production and export of agricultural products to achieve sustainable production through environmental social responsibility and environmental engagement according to the engagement theory. The empirical data are collected 30 chief executive officers and their 90 supervisors of top management teams (TMTs) of Taiwanese agricultural companies in 2 months. The empirical results demonstrate that environmental social responsibility significantly influences the top management teams’ environmental engagement development, which in turn significantly influences the agricultural company’s environmental innovation. These empirical results can not only promote the sustainable production literature in the agricultural field but also help these agricultural companies implement environmental innovation to realize sustainable production of agricultural exports.

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BackgroundTo realize sustainable agricultural production, agricultural companies must make effective product strategies to improve production performance and must employ environmental strategies to promote the firm’s environmental innovation
EE atmosphere within a top management teams (TMTs) will significantly affect the company’s environmental innovation (EI) adoption to support hypothesis 4. This survey puts forward the MGCM to examine if the environmental social responsibility (ESR) significantly leads to EE development at cross-level, which in turn significantly leads to individual-level EI development
Managers often devote key resources to increasing the employee’s positive behavior for company performance, but these managers may ignore the key antecedent of green management (e.g., ESR and EE). These human resource managers should keep in mind that maximizing these green management behaviors and constructing a green work environment are the key driving factors of sustainable production. This survey puts forward the multilevel model (MLM) to prove that ESR would lead to more development of EE, which in turn would lead to more development of EI adoption

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BackgroundTo realize sustainable agricultural production, agricultural companies must make effective product strategies to improve production performance and must employ environmental strategies to promote the firm’s environmental innovation. Previous studies have examined that environmental innovation is a key source of sustainable production (Anderson and Maughan, 2021; Moravčíková et al, 2021). The demand for food may double in 2050 to cause a food crisis (Searchinger et al, 2018), thereby indicating the importance of sustainable production. This survey defines environmental innovation as the degree to which the company employees engage in environmental idea formation and implementation. Past studies in examining the driving factors of environmental innovation almost adopted institutional perspective (Blakeney et al, 2020; Li and Wang, 2021), agricultural technology (Andrieu et al, 2019), or weather events (Elahi et al, 2021), and ignored

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