Environmental Management Performance Research Articles

Do corporate anti-bribery and corruption commitments enhance environmental management performance? The moderating role of corporate social responsibility accountability and executive compensation governance

This study aims to examine the potential impact (substantive or symbolic) of firms' anti-bribery and corruption commitments (ABCC) on environmental management performance (ENVS). We also seek to explore whether this link is contingent on corporate social responsibility (CSR) accountability and executive compensation governance. To achieve these aims, we use a sample of 2151 firm-year observations representing 214 FTSE 350 non-financial companies from 2002 to 2016. Our findings support a positive association between firms’ ABCC and ENVS. In addition, our evidence shows that CSR accountability and executive compensation governance are significant substitutes for ABCC to engender enhanced ENVS. Our study highlights practical implications for organisations, regulators and policymakers, and suggests several avenues for future environmental management research. Overall, our findings are unsensitive to alternative measures of ENVS, different types of multivariate regression methods, namely ordinary least squares (OLS) and two-step generalized method of moments (GMM) regressions, and controlling for industry environmental risk and the implementation of the UK Bribery Act 2010.

Assessment of Green Human Resource Management in Developing Sustainable Performance of Manufacturing Industry in Pakistan

In light of the evolving corporate landscape and the growing emphasis on competencies and strategic approaches, the concept of Green Human Resource Management (HRM) has emerged as a vital component of global green development. Green HRM integrates environmental considerations into HR activities, contributing to the long-term sustainability of organizations and their workforce. While existing literature has predominantly focused on sustainability, this research addresses the novel contribution of Green HRM. The study examines the impact of Green HRM practices on the sustainability of Pakistan's manufacturing industry, encompassing social, environmental, and economic performance indicators. Data were collected from 111 manufacturing employees in Pakistan, utilizing a convenience sampling method and structured questionnaires. The findings reveal that Green HRM positively influences the environmental, economic, and social performance management practices of emerging economies. Companies with a strong brand image can leverage Green HRM practices to enhance sales and consumer awareness, aligning with their green objectives. Consequently, manufacturing enterprises in Pakistan can enhance their clean industrial capacity by adopting the proposed investigation model.

Improving the effectiveness of watershed environmental management—dynamic coordination through government pollution control and resident participation

To improve the effectiveness of envir onmental management of watersheds and improve the environmental management mechanism of cross-administrative watersheds, we develop a neoliberal framework for action using incentives, examine the cooperative strategies of local governments in watershed treatment and people-oriented environmental protection under central government subsidies, and analyze the cost effectiveness of multiple strategies in a dynamic perspective, and we have the following important findings: (1) Compared to vertical ecological compensation, the introduction of horizontal cost-sharing contracts is more effective in enhancing inter-local cooperative environmental governance. (2) When the marginal benefit of the downstream local government is greater than half of the upstream marginal benefit, the upstream local government's pollution control investment and the effect of pollution control are improved, and the Pareto improvement of the environmental governance benefit of the watershed is realized, i.e., the cost-sharing contract driven by the downstream can achieve a win-win situation for both environmental and government governance benefits. (3) When the marginal benefit of downstream environmental advocacy is between 0.5 and 1.5 times the marginal benefit of upstream government, the cost-sharing contract is more effective in improving downstream benefits. Conversely, when the marginal benefit of downstream is greater than 1.5 times, the marginal benefit of upstream, the more effective the cost-sharing contract is in improving the marginal benefit of downstream. The results of the study provide useful insights for the government to develop reasonable pollution management cooperation mechanisms to improve environmental management performance and thus enhance the sustainable development of the watershed.

The effect of state capital injection on firms’ pollution emissions: Evidence from China

Existing research on state capital injection (SCI) has not yet explored its environmental effects. Using Chinese firm level data and the difference-in-difference estimator, we estimated the effect of SCI on firms' sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions. The results show that the SCI reduced firms’ SO2 emissions significantly but have no effect on SO2 emissions intensity. Moreover, robustness tests show that SCI also reduced the emissions of industrial exhaust and chemical oxygen demand but not their emissions intensity. Further analysis reveals that the abatement effects of SCI are at the expense of capacity utilization reduction and then the sacrifice of economic output, thus failing to achieve a win-win situation for both pollution abatement and economic benefits. Firms accepting SCI do not significantly increase their use of pollution treatment technologies, either source control technologies or end-of-pipe treatment technologies. The reason may be that after accepting SCI, firms are required to take on more environmental social responsibility and are under higher pressure of pollution abatement. However, their managers may be more inclined to respond to environmental regulation and pollution control through non-market-based approaches rather than through technological innovation. In addition, heterogeneity analysis shows the pollution abatement effect of SCI only exists in small or lower administrative hierarchy firms. This study has shed some lights on the reform of the environmental regulatory system and the environmental performance management of state-owned enterprises.

Impact of Green Human Resource Management on Eco-Friendly Behavior, Organizational Commitment, and Environmental Performance of Hotel Employees in Pakistan

The Green Human Resource Management has least been explored especially in the context of Pakistan’s hotel industry. The instant research explored the relationship of Green Human Resource Management with employees’ commitment, employees’ eco-friendly behavior and overall organizational performance for Pakistan’s hotel industry. The hotels situated in Lahore were systematically selected and data was collected on structured questionnaire from top, middle and lower management of these hotels. Data was analyzed by employing Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The results showed that the Green Human Resource Management exerted positive effect on Employees’ Organizational Commitment and Hotels’ Environmental Performance but did not affect Employees Eco-friendly Behavior. Therefore, hotel management in Pakistan should look for potential candidates at the time of recruitment who cherished environmental practices. Further, a significant mediating role of employees’ eco-friendly behavior was observed to be existed directly and indirectly for the relationship between Hotels’ Environmental Performance and Green Human Resource Management. It is suggested that appropriate reward mechanism is required to instill eco-friendly behavior in the hotel employees of Pakistan.

Urban environmental legislation and corporate environmental performance: End governance or process control?

Urban environmental legislation is an important institutional arrangement to ensure the orderly progress of ecological civilization construction. It will also affect corporate environmental performance (CEP) due to more binding environmental regulation measures. Firstly, this paper clarifies the theoretical logic and mechanism of the impact of urban environmental legislation on CEP. Secondly, we matched the data of 3642 listed firms from 2010 to 2019 with the panel data of 277 prefecture-level cities, conducted a quasi-natural experiment based on urban environmental legislation, and used the differential-in-difference model (DID) to test the above mechanism. The results show that urban environmental legislation can significantly improve CEP. Our heterogeneity analyses show that urban environmental legislation more significantly impacts firms with strong debt financing ability, perfect internal governance structure, and low equity concentration. The mechanism test demonstrates that urban environmental legislation improves CEP directly by increasing environmental investment and indirectly by increasing media and public attention. According to a quantitative analysis of 714 urban environmental legislation texts, urban environmental legislation has a significant positive impact on corporate environmental operation performance focusing on terminal governance but no significant impact on corporate environmental management performance focusing on process control.

How institutional pressures improve environmental management performance in construction projects: an agent-based simulation approach

How institutional pressures improve environmental management performance in construction projects: an agent-based simulation approach

Peran pemerintah dalam implementasi kebijakan lingkungan di Kabupaten Sidoarjo

The environment is one of the elements of life that should be maintained properly. Especially water, where everyone must need water as the most important source of life for all humanity in the world. The role of the government in controlling water pollution in the Porong River, Sidoarjo Regency is the focus of research in this journal. This research is very important because the Porong River is a river from the Brantas watershed that is highly protected by the Provincial Government. In addition, this study uses descriptive qualitative methods. This is because so that researchers can easily explain how the role of the district government in maintaining and managing the environment. By using green political theory, this research is intended to understand the application of green politics in the implementation of environmental policies. Environmental programs such as the Environmental Management Performance System are the mainstay of the Sidoarjo Regency Government in controlling its environment, this program is supported by the existence of an environmental budget from the Sidoarjo Regency DPRD according to the mandate of Law No. 32 of 2009. The idea of ​​green political assumptions should be a guideline in the making and implementation of Sidoarjo regency policy so that sustainable development can be realized without overriding environmental aspects.

The Effect of Environmental Consciousness on Environmental Management

The objective of this study was to combine environmental, social, and governance (ESG) theories, namely instrumental, political, integrative, and ethical theories, to understand whether differences in environmental consciousness of managers led to different environmental management performance. A questionnaire survey on the environmental consciousness and environmental management of Taiwan’s manufacturing firms was conducted and 261 samples were analyzed. The research model investigates the relevant relationships among the constructs by using a structural equation modeling approach. The results indicate that heightened political, integrative, and ethical environmental consciousness exert a positive influence on environmental management performance, whereas stronger instrumental environmental consciousness exerts a negative influence. The results of this study can assist companies in scrutinizing the effectiveness of their environmental management measures while also assisting investors in identifying companies with genuine environmental consciousness. The findings will do more to provide governing agencies with a reference when formulating environmental regulations.

How does Decentralization Affect the Performance of Municipalities in Urban Environmental Management in the Philippines?

This study explored the factors that affect the environmental management performance of municipalities in the Philippines, which have expanded their environmental policy authority through decentralization. Individual case studies have shown that in order for a municipality that has expanded its authority over environmental policy in the process of decentralization to effectively implement this policy, it is important that the mayor take political initiative to overcome financial and technical constraints and encourage the effective participation of stakeholders. In response to these arguments, this study examines each of the following four questions – whose policy input improves local government performance, whether local government performance improves when mayors have frequent contact with stakeholders, whether the frequent contact with external political actors affect the performance of local governments, and whose financial support increases local government performance – using statistical analysis on the results of a large-scale local government survey in the Philippines. It was revealed that financial inputs from the private sector and a frequent contact with the neighboring local governments have a positive correlation with high environmental management performance, while close relationships with various stakeholders and strong financial support from the central government departments have a negative correlation, and the mayor's policy initiative has no effect.

Implementation of type III environmental declaration based on ISO 14025: a case study on an ideal and reality of the PROPER program implementation in Indonesia

Environmental management program performance ratings for companies (PROPER) is a public disclosure program for environmental compliance by the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK). PROPER is a type of government policy to enhance the business’ environmental management performance by the law’s requirements. Furthermore, PROPER is an example of how environmental management has become more open and democratic in Indonesia. The application of this instrument is an effort by the KLHK to implement some of the virtues of good governance — transparency, equity, responsibility, and community participation — in environmental management. In 2021, the PROPER Program expanded its activities’ scope by including elements of LCA implementation in the program report. This paper aims to provide recommendations for the PROPER program implementation concerning applying the ISO 14025 standard. The method used in this study are literature studies of related regulations and mapping the existing conditions against the conformity of the ISO 14025 standard. The study shows that the current PROPER program has met several requirements of the ISO 14025, comprising life cycle assessments and environmental product declarations. However, the existing program should have determined that PCR is one of the elements required to assess environmental management performance ratings.

Sustainability Performance Appraisal for Airports Serving Tourist Islands

Air transport infrastructure development is crucial for economic and social growth. Regional airports connecting remote, tourist destinations such as islands provide important services and boost global and local commerce networks. Airport authorities intend to maximize expansion while limiting environmental impacts. Regional airports may achieve efficient environmental management by applying sustainable practices and developing long-term strategies. The purpose of this paper is the development of an in-depth comparison and assessment of the environmental sustainability performance of a number of regional airports in terms of the environmental impacts that are caused by their operations and their demand patterns. The evaluation methodology is based on the identification of evidence about the incorporation of key environmental management performance aspects in the environmental reports of the top five regional tourist airports in the Mediterranean islands. The most important finding was that airports, despite requiring an efficient and forward-thinking environmental management plan in order to address the environmental impact that they have, do not prioritize their environmental performance management issues. The conventional wisdom is to provide a framework for evaluating tourist airports’ performance toward environmental mitigation efforts, promote best practices, and benchmark sustainability for regions heavily dependent on tourism.

How Institutional Pressure Affects Organizational Citizenship Behavior for the Environment: The Moderated Mediation Effect of Green Management Practice

The processes of sustainable development, environmental management, and green performance are inseparable from people’s active participation, and organizational citizenship behavior for the environment (OCBE) has a significant function in promoting that process. We construct a moderated mediating effect model of green management practice by introducing institutional pressure and green emotion into the formation mechanism of OCBE based on neo-institutionalism theory and the theory of planned behavior. Taking matched employees of cross-regional organizations as a sample, we conducted a longitudinal tracking questionnaire survey. The results show a positive correlation between institutional pressure and OCBE, mediated by green emotion. Additionally, the paper discovered that green management practice moderated the relationships between institutional pressure and OCBE, green emotion and OCBE, and institutional pressure and green emotion. Furthermore, green management practice also moderates the strength of the mediating effect of green emotion between institutional pressure and OCBE. The findings provide some guidance for promoting organizational sustainable development and achieving organizational green transformation.

Environmental Awareness and Environmental Management Practices: Mediating Effect of Environmental Data Distribution

This study investigates how environmental awareness of suppliers affects the distribution of products and services and management performance of environmental data using three key indicators: MPI (Management Performance Indicator), OPI (Operational Indicator Index), ECI (Environmental Condition Indicator). In order to prove these relations, the research models and hypotheses were established. After collecting 295 samples of effective responses from suppliers, an experimental analysis was conducted using structural equation modeling. 
 The main findings reveals that the environmental awareness of suppliers influence the distribution and the representation of environmental data to the management with mediating effect on the relationship between suppliers and environment. This study has important significances: an academic one, that the scope of environmental awareness was extended from the consumer to the organizational perspective, especially to suppliers; another practical due that it has increased environmental awareness of suppliers improving the environmental management performance; and also, an educational with positive implications for the dissemination of environmental information.

Assessing the Impacts of Individual and Organizational Factors on South Korea Hotels’ Green Performance Using the AMO Model

The goal of this study is to investigate the influence relationship between AMO applied green HRM and employees’ green OCB. This study also attempted to verify the relationship between employees’ green OCB and green performance management. Specifically, we tried to define the effects of green awareness and green psychological climate on green HRM and green OCB. Moreover, we examined the mediating effect of green CSR perception on the relationship between green OCB and green performance management. To do so, we surveyed Rooms and F&B employees from nine global chain hotels in South Korea that actively contribute to a green package. An “actively contributing hotel” is one that has leadership in energy and environmental design certification. Further, employees of such hotels consider them proenvironmental hotels. For data analysis, we carried out SEM and factor analysis using SPSS 18.0 and Amos 20.0 (IBM, Armonk, NY, USA). All hypotheses were adopted as having significantly positive (+) effects. Hypotheses 4, 7, and 11 predicted partial mediating effects. The findings of the study have significant theoretical and practical ramifications for corporate environmental strategic performance management. Specifically, this study identified the relationship between the mediation variables on green OCB and green PM, as demonstrated in previous studies. Additionally, these results provide an effective employee management strategy for the green HRM of green hotels by providing concrete data. First, green hotels need to raise employees’ green awareness and green psychological climate to increase their green OCB. Second, employees themselves ultimately have to enhance the green CSR perception to raise green PM.

Influence mechanisms of macro‐infrastructure on micro‐environments in the recirculating aquaculture system and biofloc technology system

AbstractAquaculture intensification has emerged as a potential sustainable aquaculture strategy to contribute to the Food and Agriculture Organisation's United Nations Sustainable Development Goals associated with food security. Recirculating aquaculture systems (RASs) and biofloc technology systems (BFTs) are typical land‐based intensive aquaculture facility models that have been widely researched and applied. The rapid growth of both systems has boosted human nutrition and the regional economy but has also caused concerns about animal welfare, ecological protection, water treatment effectiveness and public health. One of the key links between aquaculture and ecological issues is the treatment of harmful particulates in wastewater, particularly organic metabolic microparticles. These microparticles are derived from decomposition waste feed, faeces and biofilm and provide a surface for bacterial growth and proliferation. The increase in microparticle abundance can directly affect bacterial activity and abundance and adversely affect the environment. Furthermore, the decomposition and motion of these particles are related to the mechanical stress caused by the water flow pattern in aquaculture tanks. The internal configurations of the tank can control the hydrodynamic characteristics, such as the water velocity, uniformity, pressure and turbulence in aquaculture tanks, and thus influence the morphology of particles. This review analyses and discusses how macro‐infrastructure influences the microenvironment in aquaculture tanks. These results provide a theoretical foundation and practical implications for improving the performance of aquaculture systems and environmental management in intensive aquaculture. It is concluded that optimisation of infrastructure design is key to improving the water flow patterns and self‐cleaning performance of tanks and achieving high efficiency of RASs and BFTs, and is critical for the fulfilment of the Sustainable Development Goals in aquaculture.

Carbon Stocks in the Conservation Area of PT. Pertamina (Persero) Fuel Terminal Boyolali

Flora biodiversity has been known to have a vital function in reducing carbon emissions in the air and contributing oxygen in significant levels to the environment. PT. Pertamina (Persero) Fuel Terminal Boyolali (FTB) has an important role in the conservation programs, protection of flora biodiversity, and environmental management. This study aims to analyze carbon stocks found in trees, plants cover soil, litter, necromas, and carbon in the soil and evaluate conservation of flora. This study uses a purposive random sampling method of carbon sources followed by the determination of carbon stocks in three conservation areas managed by PT. FTB, namely in the Wonopotro Forest, in the Pepe River watershed, and Pertamina's operational area. The samples from carbon sources include trees, litter, ground cover plants, necromas, and soil. The trees and necromas carbon sources sampling at each location was carried out at 2 stations with a size of 10 x 50 m2. Meanwhile, the sampling of litter, ground cover plants, and soil was carried out at 2 stations, each consisting of 3 plots. The results showed that the total carbon stock in the conservation areas was 1,688,0791 tons. The Pepe River watershed has the highest total carbon stock, which was 1,466,0928 tons/ha. The FTB and Wonopotro Forest, respectively, have about 180.7569 and 41.2294 tons/ha. The novelty of this research is the method of calculating carbon stocks in a conservation area that can be used as a database for assessing environmental management performance to the preservation of biological resources.

Development of a new methodology for multifaceted assessment, analysis, and characterization of soil contamination

It is important to identify key performance and core progress features of soil contamination management practices. Traditional research currently focuses on numerical statistics of contaminated sites but exhibits structural limitations regarding cross-assessment and in-depth analysis of published findings. Herein, we report a multidimensional perspective to assess the environmental management performance of soil contamination via systematic and historical development of construction land risk control and remediation lists (RCRLs). The considered contaminated sites are mainly concentrated in Northern China, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, and Sichuan-Chongqing regions. Monthly historical overviews indicate that most lists are updated 4–5 times within 32 months. Direct chemical-related industrial production results in the largest number of contaminated sites. Arsenic and lead are the most common heavy metals of concern in soil contamination. The fiscal revenue index exhibits the best positive performance in terms of the number of contaminated sites. By employing the site number, update frequency, and published contents of different calculation proportions, ten types of integrated assessment indicators (IAIs) are established to evaluate the environmental achievements in various provincial regions in regard to soil contamination protection. This multifaceted strategy can provide advanced guidance for Chinese environmental management and expand the application of soil pollution risk control and remediation in a wide range of countries.

New insights into corporate sustainability, environmental management and corporate financial performance in European Union: an application of VAR and Granger causality approach.

The paper examines how environmental, social, and governance (ESG), including management incentives, influence a firm’s financial performance. The study method is based on an empirical analysis of data describing firm-level information about corporate financial performance and corporate sustainability performance between 2001 and 2020, summing up 6291 observations related to 422 analyzed firms from the European Union (EU). The study findings emphasize that firm size is highly influenced by sustainable economic development and significantly conditioned by a CSR strategy and a capable management team. We also prove a long-term relationship between the measures of corporate financial performance and the scores reflecting corporate ESG performance. Our results show a co-integration relationship between corporate financial performance metrics and corporate sustainability performance scores. ESG corporate performance is highly conditioned by the level of resources affected for this purpose, directly impacting firms’ cash flow.

Do Environmental Performance and Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure Affect Financial Performance?

The Ministry of Environment determines the company's environmental management performance evaluation plan or PROPER in controlling environmental effects to improve the company's role in environmental protection plans. However, many companies still get a red or black PROPER rating. Therefore, this study aimed to test the effect of environmental performance and corporate social responsibility disclosure on the company's financial performance. The sample used in the mining sector companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the 2015-2019 period, amounting to 49 companies. The sampling technique in this study used a purposive sampling technique. The purposive sampling technique is a sample selection technique using criteria. According to the sample's criteria, this research selected 55 financial statements from 11 companies. The data in this study were analyzed using multiple linear regression. The results of this study indicate that environmental performance and CSR disclosure have a positive effect on the company's financial performance. Then, financial performance and Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure have a simultaneous and positive impact on the company's financial performance. Research can be considered for mining companies to always pay attention to environmental performance due to company activities. In addition, companies must consistently implement Corporate Social Responsibility in carrying out their business activities. The implementation of sound environmental performance must also be accompanied by the implementation of good corporate social responsibility. The company's financial performance is getting better because these two things can synergistically affect the company's economic performance.