How Environmental Knowledge Management Promotes Employee Green Behavior: An Empirical Study

As environmental protection has gradually become the focus of enterprises' development, employee green behavior becomes an important and key antecedent to study this issue, but there have been less studies conducted with knowledge management. As a result, drawing on the theory of planned behavi...

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Published in:International journal of environmental research and public health 2021-04, Vol.18 (9), p.4738
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Environmental behavior
Environmental effects
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Environmental protection
Hypotheses
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Perceptions
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Social responsibility
Sustainable development
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Environmental behavior
Environmental effects
Environmental management
Environmental protection
Hypotheses
Knowledge management
Knowledge sharing
Perceptions
Shamanism
Social responsibility
Sustainable development
Theory of planned behavior
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