Corporate sustainable development: testing a new scale based on the mainland Chinese context

Article Type: Abstracts From: Strategic Direction, Volume 28, Issue 7

Chow W.S. and Chen Y.Journal of Business Ethics, February 2012, Vol. 105 No. 4, Start page: 519, No. of pages: 15

According to the predominant corporate sustainable development (CSD)framework, this exploratory paper verifies that CSD construct can be modeled by integrating the dimensions of social, economic, and environmental development. We first developed and validated measurement scales for these three dimensions based on a survey of 314 managers in mainland China. Then, using structural equation modeling, we confirmed that the proposed model is valid. Therefore, our findings may allow researchers to explore CSD further, and practitioners to develop their understanding of CSD initiatives in organizations.Article type: Research paperISSN: 0167-4544Reference: 41AE841

Keywords: Corporate sustainable development, Instrument refinement, Second-order analysis