Table A2.

Psychometric property of measurement items

 Items loadingAVECR
(Factors/items)AustraliaChinaMexicoAustraliaChinaMexicoAustraliaChinaMexico
Resources   0.7580.6510.6680.9040.8470.858
Insufficient funding for environmental and sustainability projects – C10.9220.8230.840      
Lack of environmental and sustainability expertise to support the academy – C20.8200.8690.785      
Workload model not suited – C3(-)0.7210.827      
Weak technical infrastructure – C40.867(-)(-)      
Process   0.8150.6860.7080.9300.8670.879
Lack of focus on environmental and sustainability curriculum practices – C50.906(-)0.858      
Lack of governance for environmental and sustainability policies – C6(-)0.8430.884      
Absence of environmental and sustainability programmes to motivate the academy – C70.9020.7920.778      
Shortage of environmental and sustainability academic collaboration – C80.9000.848(-)      
People   0.8480.5880.7450.9180.8100.898
Lack of awareness towards environmental and sustainability curriculum – C90.8940.701(-)      
Lack of environmental and sustainability training to curriculum development – C100.9470.8270.898      
Poor composition of environmental and sustainability culture – C11(-)0.7680.801      
Lack of participation in environmental and sustainability issues – C12(-)(-)0.888      
New venture behaviour   0.8070.6870.9000.9260.8140.948
Pursue new environmental and sustainability courses – I10.8610.779(-)      
Find new environmental and sustainability niches for courses in the market – I20.885(-)0.955      
Enter new environmental and sustainability courses by offering new courses – I30.9470.8760.942      
Innovativeness   0.8280.7000.8080.9350.8750.926
Focus on developing only new environmental and sustainability courses – I4(-)0.7760.883      
Emphasise modifying courses related to environmental and sustainability issue – I50.855(-)(-)      
Focus on innovation related to environmental and sustainability courses development – I60.9510.8470.934      
Emphasise creating proprietary environmental and sustainability courses – I70.9210.8830.878      
Self-renewal   0.8140.6230.8920.9290.8680.971
Reorganise courses to increase environmental and sustainability focus – I8(-)0.8220.930      
Coordinate activities among courses to enhance environmental and sustainability issue – I90.8660.8560.954      
Participate training related to environmental and sustainability course development – I100.9310.6960.973      
Use resources for experimental environmental and sustainability courses – I110.9080.7740.919      
Proactiveness   0.8760.8270.9190.9340.9050.958
Seek to be first in introducing new environmental and sustainability courses – I12(-)0.9040.953      
Undertake bold, wide-ranging acts related to environmental and sustainability courses – I130.9630.9140.964      
Undertake bold and aggressive decision-making related to environmental and sustainability courses – I140.908(-)(-)      
University performance   0.8090.5930.6440.9440.8490.877
Increase in student satisfaction0.9370.8580.673      
Promotion of the university’s image0.8750.6110.856      
Provision of excellent teaching and learning0.9160.8380.905      
Increase in income0.8680.8200.754      

Note(s):

CR = composite reliability; AVE = average variance extracted; (-) items were deleted during QFD process

Source(s): Authors’ own creation/work

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