School of Economics and Management, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, People's Republic of China.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Jul;29(34):52189-52203. doi: 10.1007/s11356-022-19541-z. Epub 2022 Mar 8.
There are extensive studies of environmental corporate social responsibility at the macro level. However, the study of the impact of environmental corporate social responsibility on employees' work-related outcomes is inchoate. Drawing on social identity theory and signaling theory, this paper investigates the impact of environmental corporate social responsibility on employees' green innovative behaviors. The mediating role of perceived meaningfulness at work and the moderating role of moral identity are also investigated. Data were collected via a time-lagged and multisource survey. The study analyzed the responses of 271 employees of Chinese enterprises. Hypotheses were examined using hierarchical regression analysis and bootstrapping. The results indicated environmental corporate social responsibility to be positively related to employees' green innovative behaviors. Perceived meaningfulness at work mediates the link between environmental corporate social responsibility and employees' green innovative behaviors. Moreover, moral identity moderates the relationship between environmental corporate social responsibility and perceived meaningfulness at work. The indirect effect of environmental corporate social responsibility on employees' green innovative behaviors via perceived meaningfulness at work is also moderated by moral identity. Theoretical contributions and practical implications of the study are discussed.
已有大量关于宏观层面环境企业社会责任的研究。然而，关于环境企业社会责任对员工工作相关结果的影响的研究还处于起步阶段。本研究以社会认同理论和信号理论为基础，探讨了环境企业社会责任对员工绿色创新行为的影响。还考察了感知工作意义的中介作用和道德认同的调节作用。通过时间滞后和多来源调查收集了数据。本研究分析了中国企业 271 名员工的回应。使用层次回归分析和自举法检验了假设。结果表明，环境企业社会责任与员工的绿色创新行为呈正相关。感知工作意义在环境企业社会责任与员工绿色创新行为之间起中介作用。此外，道德认同调节了环境企业社会责任与感知工作意义之间的关系。道德认同还调节了通过感知工作意义对员工绿色创新行为的环境企业社会责任的间接影响。讨论了该研究的理论贡献和实际意义。
