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Environmental standards and labor productivity: Understanding the mechanisms that sustain sustainability
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Summary: In the last decade, a rising number of firms have adopted voluntary international environmental management and product standards, such as the international ISO 14001 management standard or organic certification. Although emerging research analyzes the impact of these standards on environmental and financial performance, there is to our knowledge no empirical research on how they affect the productivity of employees. In this paper, we investigate the direct relationship between environmental standards and labor productivity, as well as two mediating mechanisms through which environmental standards influence labor productivity: employee training and enhanced interpersonal contacts within the firm. Our empirical results, based on a French employer–employee survey from 5220 firms, reveal that firms that have adopted environmental standards enjoy a one standard deviation higher labor productivity than firms that have not adopted such standards. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Delmas, M. A., & Pekovic, S.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- University Paris‐Dauphine Paris France
- Corresponding author
- Delmas, Magali A.
- ORCID
- Delmas, Magali A.
- Venue
- Journal of Organizational Behavior
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2012-09-11
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 230-252
- ISSN
- 0894-3796 (ISSN-L)
- 1099-1379
- OpenAlex
- W2098785315
- Cited by
- 341
- References
- 126
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 42.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- escholarship.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Organizational Behavior (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (submittedVersion)
- Base Institutionnelle de Recherche de l'université Paris-Dauphine (BIRD) (University Paris-Dauphine) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Quality and Management Systems
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
- Keywords
- environmental standards, labor productivity, ISO 14001, organic certification, voluntary environmental standards, employee training, interpersonal contact, mediating mechanisms, corporate sustainability
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