ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Environmental Will, Environmental Behavior
and Knowledge Sharing – an Empirical Study
Based on Resource-Based Enterprises
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School of Business, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou Jiangsu Province, China, 221116
Submission date: 2020-12-20
Final revision date: 2021-04-05
Acceptance date: 2021-05-03
Online publication date: 2021-09-14
Publication date: 2021-12-02
Corresponding author
Guirong Ji
Business School,Jiangsu Normal University, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2021;30(6):5833-5847
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ABSTRACT
Resource-based enterprises, as an important part of China’s macro-economy and an important
guarantee for the operation of the national economy, have brought serious environmental pollution
problems as well as great economic benefits. Under the background of the new era of ecological
priority in China, the analysis of the environmental behavior choice of resource-based enterprises as
micro-subjects is of guiding significance to the construction of environmental governance system in
China. Based on the results of 503 questionnaires of resource-based enterprises, this paper combs the
internal mechanism of corporate reputation, leader awareness, technical support and market profits
influencing corporate environmental behavior, introduces corporate environmental will as mediating
variable, knowledge sharing and corporate social responsibility as regulating variable, constructs
a theoretical model of corporate environmental behavior drivers. The hypothesis is put forward and
tested by Structural Equation Model and Hierarchical Regression Analysis. The results show that:
corporate reputation, leader awareness, technical support and market profits all have significant positive
effects on corporate environmental will; At the same time, corporate environmental will plays a full
intermediary role in the process of corporate reputation and leader awareness influencing the corporate
environmental behavior, and has part of the intermediary role in the process of technical support and
market profits influencing corporate environmental behavior. Knowledge sharing plays a moderating
role in the process of transforming leader awareness into corporate environmental behavior. When the
level of knowledge sharing is higher, it has a strong regulatory effect on the transformation of leader
awareness to the corporate environmental will.