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Green Employee Behaviour, Institutional Pressure, And Environmental Performance: A Moderation Analysis

Issah Ofori (1) , Samuel Bruce Rockson (2) , Jonathan Annan (3) , Mariama Zakari (4)
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2. Cape Coast Technical University image/svg+xml
3. Strathmore University image/svg+xml
4. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology image/svg+xml
https://doi.org/10.36923/imf.v1i1.409

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): Continuous
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December 10, 2025
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December 25, 2025
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January 8, 2026
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    Green Employee Behaviour, Green Employee Support, Green Induced Job Stress, Institutional Pressure, Environmental Performance
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The increasing concerns about environmental degradation, environmental issues, and green employee behaviour have been attracting constant attention and pressure from business sectors, but the extent to which institutional pressures moderate the effects of green employee support and green job-induced stress on environmental performance has limited number of studies. The study sought to understand how the impact of institutional pressures on environmental performance is largely determined by the firm’s willingness to respond based on their green employee support or reducing green-induced job stress. Focusing on transport and logistics-related firms from both manufacturing and service sectors, the study conducted a survey that collected data from 227 firms using questionnaires as the research instrument. The respondents for the study were top-level managers. The findings revealed that green support and environmental performance are positively related. It was also found that the green induced job stress negatively influences environmental performance. Finally, the effect of green employee support on environmental performance is conditioned by high levels of institutional pressure, but the moderating effect of institutional pressures on the relationship between green-induced job stress and environmental performance was not statistically significant. The study contributes to the environmental literature by demonstrating the importance of green-induced job stress and green employee support in explaining environmental performance.  Given certain external conditions, especially customers’ environmental demands and competitors’ organisational green initiatives, a firm with strong green employee behaviour should generate superior performance with its emphasis on the integration of organizational efforts to deliver superior environmental performance.

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