The Effect of Perceived Organizational Support toward the Environment on Team Green Innovative Behavior: Evidence from Chinese Green Factories

ABSTRACT

This study contributes to our understanding regarding how to increase manufacturing enterprises’team green innovative behavior based on the social cognition theory. Based on structural equation models and 408 questionnaires from green factories located in China, we revealed that perceived organizational support toward the environment (POS-E)has a positive influence on team environmental knowledge learning and team green innovative behavior. Team environmental knowledge learning positively affects team green self-efficacy, which, in turn, positively affects team green innovative behavior. The intermediary connection between team environmental knowledge learning and team green self-efficacy plays a significant role in mediating the relationship between POS-E and team green innovative behavior.

KEYWORDS:

• Perceived organizational support toward the environment
• team environmental knowledge learning
• team green self-efficacy
• team green innovative behavior
• green factories in China

JEL:

• C33
• C33
• Q53

Acknowledgement

Ya-Wei Zhang acknowledges the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (72074195).

Disclosure Statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant numbers 72074195].