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Organisational and employee symbolic environmental behaviours: an integrated multi-level framework

In: Research Handbook on Employee Pro-Environmental Behaviour

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  • Lei Yang
  • Danae Manika
  • Frances Bowen

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Previous research shows that organisations and employees usually perform green practices and activities superficially. Those behaviours are decoupled from the true benefits on the environment and very often are symbolic in nature. Symbolic pro-environmental activities are suggested as the representations of pro-environmental behaviours in symbolic form or the symbolic meanings attributed to eco-friendly objects and actions. This chapter aims to establish an integrated multi-level framework with three dimensions: appropriateness, competitiveness and status, to explain drivers of symbolic pro-environmental behaviours at organisational and employee levels. Specifically, the competitiveness dimension includes two aspects: gain resources and differentiation.

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  • Lei Yang & Danae Manika & Frances Bowen, 2018. "Organisational and employee symbolic environmental behaviours: an integrated multi-level framework," Chapters, in: Victoria Wells & Diana Gregory-Smith & Danae Manika (ed.), Research Handbook on Employee Pro-Environmental Behaviour, chapter 12, pages 229-264, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    1. Fabien Martinez, 2021. "Ecological responsiveness and business performance: Four scenarios of compatibility and a multi‐faceted strategies framework," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 30(8), pages 3606-3625, December.

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