Elisa Alt
University of Seville
Perceived organizational citizenship behaviors directed toward the environment: The relationship with environmental performance

Elisaalt@gmail.com

I am a final year PhD student in Management at the University of Seville (Spain), with research interests in business sustainability, greening behaviors at the workplace, and social intrapreneurship. Within the scope of my doctoral research, I have been examining different resources and capabilities as predictors of environmental performance, drawing on the theoretical framework of the natural-resource-based view of the firm. More recently, I have also been collaborating in a joint research project between the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility (Cranfield University, UK) and the Fundação Dom Cabral (São Paulo, Brazil), which looks at how corporate environments can both foster the development of social intrapreneurs and drive creation of social and commercial value for businesses and wider communities. Prior to the PhD, I worked for 4 years in small advertising agencies in Brazil, initially as a copywriter and later as creativity department director.

Perceived organizational citizenship behaviors directed toward the environment: The relationship with environmental performance

Employees' informal behaviors can improve environmental performance by sharing of relevant tacit knowledge, and by facilitating the teamwork required by many environmental activities. However, research has yet to assess the role of these contributions in enabling environmental performance. In this paper, we addressed this gap by examining the relationship between employees' informal behaviors and environmental performance, through the lenses of organizational citizenship behaviors. Results revealed that respondents' perceptions of organizational citizenship behaviors directed toward the environment were positively and significantly related to perceptions of improvements in environmental performance, in a cross-country and cross-industry setting of 170 firms.