Chinas Triple Bottom-line (TBL) Challenge: Exploring How Demographics and Values Shape Preferences of Future Managers and Engineers toward Profit, People and Planet
More recently, scandals of corporate malpractices, human rights exploitation and use of high-impact materials, ecological degradation are now becoming serious threats to Chinas TBL initiatives for sustainable economic growth.Some argue that such disruptions are linked to changing demographics and altering value systems in Chinese society.Despite practical and theoretical significance, current literature offers no empirical study that examines potential micro-antecedents to TBL preferences of Chinese professionals, especially those in working in the domain of natural sciences.Responding to such knowledge gaps, the current study analysed data from self-reports of 383 business and engineering students.Results indicated that demographic factors effects materialism, which in turn, generates favourable attitude towards TBL (profit), but negatively relates to socio-environmental values and TBL (people and planet).Practical implications are discussed for policy makers, educators and business leaders.
Triple Bottom-line Environmental Values People-oriented Values Materialism China
Shoukat I KHATTAK Waseem A KHAN Chui S HOH Hui LI
School of Management, Xiamen University, China Institute for Financial and Accounting Studies, Xiamen University, China Institute of Education, Xiamen University, China
国际会议
上海
英文
659-671
2018-04-15（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）