Development of Scales for the Measurement of Executive Green Leadership and Exploration of Its Antecedents

Yang Wang, Chenling Tian, Xia Jiang () and Yang Tong ()
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Yang Wang: Economics and Management School, Wuhan University, 299 Bayi Road, Wuhan 430072, China
Chenling Tian: School of Economics and Business Administration, Central China Normal University, 382 Xiongchu Road, Wuhan 430079, China
Xia Jiang: Business School, Nanjing University, No. 22 Hankou Road, Gulou District, Nanjing 210093, China
Yang Tong: College of Economics and Management, China-Africa International Business School, Zhejiang Normal University, 688 Yingbin Road, Jinhua 321004, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 13, 1-17

Abstract: Drawing on the existing research on green leadership, this paper first examines the concept and structure of executive green leadership and develops a preliminary scale to measure executive green leadership. The confirmatory factor analysis is adopted to verify and revise the scale. The results show that green leadership and green person are the two main structures of executive green leadership, and the scale developed in this paper is of good reliability and validity. After data analysis, this paper then explores the antecedents of executive green leadership. The results show that factors such as corporate executives’ internal moral identity, conscientiousness, pro-environmental intention, command-based environmental regulation, market-based environmental regulation, and corporate green image have a significant positive correlation with executive green leadership, while their short-term orientation has a significant negative correlation with the green leadership. This paper defines the concept and structure of executive green leadership and develops the corresponding scale for measuring it, to improve scholars’ and managers’ understanding of executive green leadership.

Keywords: executive green leadership; scale development; green manager; green person (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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