Green Intellectual Capital And Environmental Performance: The Mediating Role Of Green Hrm And Employees' Pro-Environmental Behavior

Abstract

Drawing on the theories of natural-resource-based view and social cognition, this research examines the influence of green intellectual capital (GIC) on environmental performance (EP) and analyses the mediation roles of pro-environmental behavior (PEB) and the four green human resource management (GHRM) aspects including green recruitment and selection (GRS), green training and development (GTD), green performance management and appraisal (GMA) and green compensation and reward (GCR). A questionnaire-based survey was created to obtain data from 448 respondents from Vietnamese SMEs using snowball sampling and convenience sampling techniques. Partially least squares - structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was employed to investigate the proposed model. The findings illustrate that GIC has an immediate impact on GHRM, PEB, and EP. Similarly, GHRM is favorably associated with PEB, and PEB also has a beneficial influence on EP. In terms of GHRM, only GCR is directly connected to EP. In addition, in the mediation study, GCR and PEB have a partial mediating role since GIC is closely related to EP, whereas GRS-PEB, GTD-PEB, and GMA-PEB sequentially meditate on this association. This is the first study to integrate the four GHRM components and PEB as mediators to shed insight into the various impact mechanisms in the GIC-EP interaction. Furthermore, this research is also the first to discover an interesting finding on the sequential mediating effects of GHRM - PEB in the positive correlation between GIC and EP. Altogether, this research extends the investigation of organizational environmental performance by focusing on the interaction between GIC, GHRM, and PEB, especially in a developing country like Vietnam.