Unlocking green potential: a mediation-moderation analysis of bank policies-related practices and green financing sustainability in Pakistan

IF 1.7 Q2 ECONOMICS
Zahid Iqbal, Muhammad Akram, Zia Ur Rehman Rao
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Abstract

Purpose

This study aims to investigate the relationship between bank policy-related practices and green financing sustainability in Pakistan. The study uses a mediating-moderation analysis to examine how the influence of bank policies on green financing sustainability is mediated by green banking activities and moderated by the employees’ green value and green knowledge sharing.

Design/methodology/approach

In this study, a structural questionnaire was used to gather data from Pakistani bank personnel through stratified sampling. A two-stage structural equation modelling approach was used in this investigation. The measuring scale’s validity and reliability are assessed using the measure model. A structural model was used to ascertain the connection between the underpinning constructs.

Findings

This study found a positive significant effect on bank employed related practices on green banking activities, besides the mediate role of green banking activities between the bank policies-related practices and green financing. In addition, this study also found the moderating role of employees’ green value and green knowledge sharing on the relationship of bank policies-related practices and green banking activities as well as green banking activities and green financing, respectively.

Originality/value

As environmental sustainability becomes more and more important on a worldwide scale; the study looks into the ways that financial institutions may become more environmentally conscious and help create a more sustainable future. To shed light on the ways in which financial institutions can be crucial in advancing green sustainability in an emerging economy such as Pakistan, this study used sophisticated statistical tools.

释放绿色潜力:对巴基斯坦银行政策相关做法和绿色融资可持续性的中介-调节分析
目的 本研究旨在探讨巴基斯坦银行政策相关实践与绿色融资可持续性之间的关系。本研究采用中介调节分析法,考察银行政策对绿色融资可持续性的影响如何通过绿色银行活动进行中介,并通过员工的绿色价值观和绿色知识共享进行调节。本研究采用了两阶段结构方程模型法。使用测量模型对测量量表的有效性和可靠性进行评估。本研究发现,除了绿色银行活动在银行政策相关实践和绿色融资之间的中介作用外,银行雇用的相关实践对绿色银行活动也有积极的显著影响。此外,本研究还发现员工的绿色价值观和绿色知识共享分别对银行政策相关实践与绿色银行活动以及绿色银行活动与绿色融资之间的关系起到调节作用。为了揭示在巴基斯坦这样的新兴经济体中,金融机构如何在推进绿色可持续发展方面发挥关键作用,本研究使用了先进的统计工具。
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CiteScore
4.40
自引率
11.10%
发文量
67
期刊介绍: The International Journal of Ethics and Systems (formerly named Humanomics, the International Journal of Systems and Ethics) is a multidisciplinary journal publishing peer review research on issues of ethics and morality affecting socio-scientific systems in epistemological perspectives. The journal covers diverse areas of a socio-scientific nature. The focus is on disseminating the theory and practice of morality and ethics as a system-oriented study defined by inter-causality between critical variables of given problems.
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