title: Improving environmental performance through unit-level organizational citizenship behaviors for the environment: A capability perspective.
abstract: Organizational citizenship behaviors for the environment (OCBEs) are increasingly advocated as a means of complementing formal practices in improving environmental performance. Adopting a capability perspective, we propose that a firm's employee involvement capability translates into environmental performance through the manifestation of unit-level OCBEs, and that this relationship is amplified by a shared vision capability. In a cross-country and multi-industry sample of 170 firms, we find support for our hypotheses, shedding light on contextual determinants of OCBEs, and on how firms may engender a positive relationship between top-down environmental initiatives and bottom-up behaviors.
authors.affiliation: Lord Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University, Faculty Office LAB 322, East Road, Cambridge, CB1 1PT, UK. Electronic address: elisa.alt@anglia.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Elisa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Alt
authors.affiliation: Fundação Dom Cabral, Av. Dr Cardoso de Melo, 1184, 15º andar, Vila Olímpia, 04548-004, São Paulo SP, Brazil. Electronic address: heiko@fdc.org.br.
authors.forename: Heiko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Spitzeck
mesh_terms: D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009938:Organizations; D012919:Social Behavior
keywords: Corporate greening; Employee involvement; Environmental performance; Informal behaviors; Organizational citizenship behaviors; Shared vision