Ahmad Naveed, Scholz Miklas, AlDhaen Esra, Ullah Zia, Scholz Philippa
Faculty of Management Studies, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
Department of Management Sciences, Virtual University of Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan.
Front Psychol. 2021 Nov 4;12:651394. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.651394. eCollection 2021.
Businesses in the present era are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, and technological trends. This requires sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Yet organizations are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their business strategies with the mistaken belief that the costs associated with environmental investments outweigh the benefits. The Global Climate Risk Index has placed Pakistan on 5th position in the list of nations, most susceptible to climate change in its recent report. Pakistan lost the lives of 9,989 people, incurred economic losses of $ 3.8 billion, and faced 152 shocking climates between 1999 and 2018. Based on this information, it is established that Pakistan's susceptibility to climate change is growing unprecedentedly and industrial pollution is one of the biggest contributors in this respect. The country needs to take emergency measures to address this issue. With this background, the present study aims to investigate the impact of environmental sustainability on environmental and economic performance (EP) with the mediating effect of environmental innovation (EI) in the manufacturing sector of Pakistan. The results show that environmental sustainability is a significant predictor of environmental performance and EP and EI mediates this relationship. The findings of the present study provide better insights to policymakers to address the environmental degradation, resulting from industrial pollution.
当今时代的企业正在应对一系列复杂且前所未有的社会、环境和技术趋势。这需要复杂的、基于可持续性的管理。然而，企业往往不愿将可持续性置于其商业战略的核心位置，错误地认为与环境投资相关的成本超过了收益。《全球气候风险指数》在其最近的报告中将巴基斯坦列为最易受气候变化影响的国家名单中的第5位。在1999年至2018年期间，巴基斯坦有9989人丧生，遭受了38亿美元的经济损失，并面临152次令人震惊的气候事件。基于这些信息，可以确定巴基斯坦对气候变化的易感性正以前所未有的速度增长，而工业污染是这方面最大的促成因素之一。该国需要采取紧急措施来解决这个问题。在此背景下，本研究旨在探讨环境可持续性对巴基斯坦制造业的环境和经济绩效（EP）的影响，并以环境创新（EI）为中介作用。结果表明，环境可持续性是环境绩效和EP的重要预测指标，EI在这一关系中起中介作用。本研究的结果为政策制定者解决工业污染导致的环境退化问题提供了更好的见解。
