Empowering Employees’ Environmental Citizenship Behaviour: Insights From Small and Medium‐sized Enterprises in Climate‐Threatened Tourism Destinations

This study addresses a gap in understanding how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can effectively inspire their employees to adopt voluntary environmental behaviours, specifically aimed at mitigating climate change impacts on climate-threatened tourism destinations. Through smart PLS-SEM ana...

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Published in:The journal of environment & development 2024-12, Vol.33 (4), p.730-754
Main Authors: Huynh, Da V., Duong, Long H., Truong, Thuy T. K., Nguyen, Nhan T., Downes, Nigel K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior
Change agents
Citizenship
Climate change
Climate change mitigation
Climate prediction
Destinations
Emotional behavior
Emotions
Empathy
Employees
Empowerment
Environmental behavior
Environmental impact
Environmental management
Human behavior
Intelligence
Moderation
Nature conservation
Occupations
Resource management
Small & medium sized enterprises-SME
Small business
Social responsibility
Sustainability
Tourism
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Summary:This study addresses a gap in understanding how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can effectively inspire their employees to adopt voluntary environmental behaviours, specifically aimed at mitigating climate change impacts on climate-threatened tourism destinations. Through smart PLS-SEM analysis of 437 valid responses from SME employees, an extended theoretical framework is developed, encompassing factors such as environmental Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), sustainable intelligence, environmental empathy, environmental engagement, affective place attachment, and environmental citizenship behaviours. Findings reveal the direct relationship between enterprises’ environmental CSR practices and employees’ environmental citizenship behaviour. Mediating roles of empathy, engagement, and place attachment are identified in predicting employees’ voluntary pro-environmental behaviours in mitigating climate change impacts on destinations. The study also highlights the moderation effect of employees' occupations on the relationship between environmental engagement and pro-nature conservation behaviour. Implications are drawn for empowering SME employees’ environmental citizenship behaviour and promoting sustainable co-management of vulnerable tourism destinations facing climate change threats.
ISSN:1070-4965
1552-5465
DOI:10.1177/10704965241262953