The Effect of Environmental Commitment on Green innovation and Sustainable Performance with Moderating Role of Environmental Training in Mahshahr Petrochemical Companies
Subject Areas : Sustainable DevelopmentFarajallah Rahimi 1 , Ali Mehrabi 2 , Yasser Eskandari 3
1 - Assistant Professor of Management Department, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz* (Corresponding Author)
2 - Assistant Professor of Management Department, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
3 - MSc in Business Management Department, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
Keywords: sustainable performance, green innovation, environmental commitment, Environmental training,
Abstract :
Context: The present study aim to investigate the effects of environmental commitment to green innovation and sustainable performance with the moderating role of environmental Training in Mahshahr petrochemical companies. Method: This study, in terms of the purpose is application and terms of data collection is descriptive-survey. in this study to evaluate the environmental commitment of questionnaire of Liu et al. (2014), to measure green innovation of questionnaire of Chang (2012), for measuring sustainable performance of questionnaire of Mohamad et al. (2013) and to measure environmental training a questionnaire was made by researcher . The population consisted of 300 of managers Petrochemical Companies of Mahshahr. According to Morgan table were selected 169 manager as samples and questionnaires were distributed among them by simple random sampling method. In order to data analysis and hypothesis testing used structural equation modelling, PLS, and SPSS. Findings: After analyzing the data, the results revealed that environmental commitment has a positive significant impact on green innovation, but it’s on sustainable performance not significant. Also green innovation a positive significant impact on sustainable performance. Also Environmental training is not moderating role in research.
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2- Stanciu , A. C., Constandache , M., & Condrea, E. (2013). Concerns about the Sustainable Performance of Firm in the Context of Quality Management Systems Implementation. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 131: pp 340 – 344
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4- Chang, C. H. (2012). The effect of corporate environmental commitment on green product innovation. In Technology Management for Emerging Technologies (PICMET), 2012 Proceedings of PICMET'12: (pp. 1144-1151). IEEE.
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