How does environmental corporate social responsibility contribute to the development of a green corporate image? The sequential mediating roles of employees' environmental passion and pro‐environmental behavior

Muhammad Asghar Ali, Abdul Zahid Khan, Muhammad Umer Azeem and ul Haq Inam

Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, 2023, vol. 32, issue 3, 896-909

Abstract: Drawing on social cognitive theory and social information processing theory, this study investigated how organizations' efforts to embody environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR) shape consumer perception of a green corporate image through employees' environmental passion and pro‐environmental behavior (PEB). To test our hypotheses, we collected multisource time‐lagged data from 214 employee–customer dyads from hotel and banking sector organizations in Pakistan. The findings show that organizations' green corporate image is a function of their efforts to engage in ECSR activities as demonstrated through employees' environmental passion and PEB. These findings have important implications in the environment and management domains because it can help organizations draft useful strategies to counter environmental degradation and generate a green corporate image in customers' minds through employees' green behavior.

Date: 2023
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