Bridging the Green Gap in Laboratory Practices: Examining the Influence of Organizational Culture, Environmental Literacy, and Sustainability Communication on Pro-Environmental Behaviors

IF 5.3 2区环境科学与生态学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI:10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101348

John Paul R. Roquid , Yogi Tri Prasetyo , Yoshiki B. Kurata , Maela Madel L. Cahigas , Reny Nadlifatin , Ma. Janice J. Gumasing

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As key players in innovation and analysis, laboratories are crucial in reducing environmental impacts. This study examines how organizational culture (OC), environmental literacy (EL), and sustainability communication (SC) influence pro-environmental behaviors, integrating the extended Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) framework to address the existing literature gap on behavioral determinants in green and sustainable laboratory practices. Two hundred one (201) professional laboratory personnel in the Philippines participated in the self-administered questionnaire disseminated through a snowball sampling approach. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was utilized in testing the hypothesized relationships. Results show that OC, EL, and SC all significantly affected green intentions and behaviors, as mediated by TPB constructs: pro-environmental attitude (ATT), subjective norm (SN), and perceived behavioral control (PBC). ATT was the most influential in predicting green intentions, while OC and PBC directly influenced green behavior, emphasizing the importance of leadership influence and organizational practices. The paper also highlights the application of the extended TPB in contributing to the importance of institutional values, norms, resource availability, and environmental sustainability in fostering green practices in laboratories across developing countries.

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弥合实验室实践中的绿色鸿沟：考察组织文化、环境素养和可持续性传播对亲环境行为的影响

作为创新和分析的关键参与者，实验室在减少环境影响方面至关重要。本研究探讨了组织文化（OC）、环境素养（EL）和可持续性沟通（SC）如何影响亲环境行为，整合扩展的计划行为理论（TPB）框架，以解决绿色和可持续实验室实践中行为决定因素的现有文献空白。菲律宾201名专业实验室人员参与了通过滚雪球抽样方法分发的自我管理问卷。利用偏最小二乘结构方程模型（PLS-SEM）对假设的关系进行检验。结果表明，环境意识、环境行为意识和环境行为意识对绿色意向和行为均有显著影响，其中介因素包括：亲环境态度（ATT）、主观规范（SN）和感知行为控制（PBC）。ATT对绿色意向的预测影响最大，OC和PBC直接影响绿色行为，强调了领导影响和组织实践的重要性。本文还强调了扩展TPB在促进发展中国家实验室绿色实践中的机构价值、规范、资源可用性和环境可持续性方面的重要性。

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Environmental Development Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development

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8.40

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74 days

期刊介绍： Environmental Development provides a future oriented, pro-active, authoritative source of information and learning for researchers, postgraduate students, policymakers, and managers, and bridges the gap between fundamental research and the application in management and policy practices. It stimulates the exchange and coupling of traditional scientific knowledge on the environment, with the experiential knowledge among decision makers and other stakeholders and also connects natural sciences and social and behavioral sciences. Environmental Development includes and promotes scientific work from the non-western world, and also strengthens the collaboration between the developed and developing world. Further it links environmental research to broader issues of economic and social-cultural developments, and is intended to shorten the delays between research and publication, while ensuring thorough peer review. Environmental Development also creates a forum for transnational communication, discussion and global action. Environmental Development is open to a broad range of disciplines and authors. The journal welcomes, in particular, contributions from a younger generation of researchers, and papers expanding the frontiers of environmental sciences, pointing at new directions and innovative answers. All submissions to Environmental Development are reviewed using the general criteria of quality, originality, precision, importance of topic and insights, clarity of exposition, which are in keeping with the journal''s aims and scope.