Institutional Pressures and Circular Economy Target Performance: Are Zero Waste Practices and Enviropreneurship Worth Pursuing?

Abdelmohsen A. Nassani, Nicoleta Isac, Joanna Rosak-Szyrocka (), Zahid Yousaf () and Mohamed Haffar
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Abdelmohsen A. Nassani: Department of Management, College of Business Administration, King Saud University, P.O. Box.71115, Riyadh 11587, Saudi Arabia
Nicoleta Isac: Department of Business Administration, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Istanbul 34303, Turkey
Joanna Rosak-Szyrocka: Department of Production Engineering and Safety, Faculty of Management, Czestochowa University of Technology, 42-200 Czestochowa, Poland
Zahid Yousaf: Higher Education Department, Government College of Management Sciences, Mansehra 21300, Pakistan
Mohamed Haffar: Department of Management, Birmingham Business School, Birmingham B15 2TY, UK

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, 1-13

Abstract: The continuous worsening environmental pollution and rapid depletion of natural resources exerts pressures on the economies to adopt circular economy principles in order to improve and protect the natural environment. Given the importance to humanity and social responsibility, this study examines how CETP is achieved through zero waste practices and IP. Zero waste practices are also tested as a mediator between IP and CETP. Furthermore, we also tested the moderating role of enviropreneurship on the relationship between zero waste practices and CETP. Data were collected from 273 front-line managers of manufacturing concerns and analyzed through SPSS 25.0 and SEM. Results proved that IP plays an essential role in explaining CETP and zero waste practices. Zero waste practices directly affectCETP, and also act as a mediator between IP and CETP.

Keywords: institutional pressures; zero waste practices; circular economy target performance; enviropreneurship (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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