Abstract
To reduce their environmental impacts, a growing number of organizations worldwide have implemented environmental management systems (EMSs). In these organizations, energy conservation activities become usual behaviors for employees; thus, we hypothesize that employees continue such energy saving behaviors at home. This hypothesis is supported by data from surveys of individuals in Japan. Specifically, we find that the probability of engaging in energy saving practices at home is higher and that expenditures on electricity use are lower for individuals who work in organizations that implement EMSs than for individuals who do not work in organizations with EMSs. Our results suggest that beyond the original purpose of helping organizations reduce their environmental impacts, EMSs work as an intervention to promote household energy saving.
Highlights
Global warming is among the most serious problems that our society needs to address
The coefficient of ems is posi‐ tive and statistically significant at the 1% level. These results imply that individuals work‐ ing for organizations with environmental management systems (EMSs) are more likely to be engaged in energy saving practices at home than those working for organizations without EMSs, which is consistent with our hypothesis
This paper investigated whether an EMS in the workplace promotes energy saving behaviors at home
Summary
This study examines environmental management systems (EMSs) as a potential inter‐ vention to promote household energy saving. Our results show that the probability of engaging in energy saving practices at home is higher and that the expenditures on electricity use are lower when individuals’ workplaces implement EMSs than when their workplaces do not. These results suggest that beyond the original purpose of helping organizations reduce the environmental impacts generated by their activities, EMSs have previously unnoticed positive effects on household energy saving
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