Research on the Factors Influencing the Mechanism of Property Management Enterprises’ Ecological Behavior in China

Xingming Liu, Beibei Qin (), Shuai Geng, Jun Zhang, Tongsheng Zhu and Pingjun Nie
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Xingming Liu: School of Management Engineering, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan 250101, China
Beibei Qin: School of Urban Economics and Management, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China
Shuai Geng: School of Management Engineering, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan 250101, China
Jun Zhang: School of Management Engineering, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan 250101, China
Tongsheng Zhu: School of Management Engineering, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan 250101, China
Pingjun Nie: School of Humanities, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 22, 1-30

Abstract: The ecological behavior of property management enterprises is crucial to the performance of green buildings. The understanding of property management enterprises’ ecological behavior, however, is rather limited. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the mechanism of the affecting factors upon the ecological behavior of property management enterprises. The qualitative analysis method was used to collect and identify the influencing factors, which were further classified as those of stimulus, status, scenario, and result. A theoretical model of the action mechanism of influencing factors and related hypotheses has been constructed based on the planned behavior theory. The proposed hypotheses have been empirically analyzed by the quantitative analysis of a questionnaire survey. The results indicate that there are significant differences in ecological behavior implementation under different status factors, while the impact of enterprise nature on property management ecological behavior is not significant. Regarding the stimulus factors, market pressure and government regulation are the main external incentive factors. The scenario factors could be resistant forces and moderate the implementation of ecological behavior. For the result factors, property management enterprises pay attention to whether the implementation of ecological behavior can produce direct benefits. The research findings constitute valuable references for further development of the property management industry.

Keywords: property management; ecological behavior; influencing factors; theoretical model; action mechanism; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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