Affiliations: [a] Faculty of Accountancy, Finance and Business, Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management andTechnology, Jalan Genting Klang, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Academic Department, Executive College, Jalan Pending, Kuching, Sarawak
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Address for correspondence: Tay Lee Chin, Faculty of Accountancy, Finance and Business, Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology, Jalan Genting Klang, Setapak, 53300, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: BACKGROUND:Many organizations around the world have prudently adopted corporate environmental citizenship. However, the corporate environmental citizenship implementation may vary from reality. Thus, this study examines corporate environmental citizenship to identify ultimate practices to create a strong premise of CEC. OBJECTIVE:The study examines the influence of organizational learning capability, organization age on corporate environmental citizenship. METHODS:The data were collected from 50 Malaysian construction firms using the survey questionnaire and analyzed by using Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). RESULTS:The finding revealed that organizational learning capability positively related to corporate environmental citizenship. Organization age was not found to moderate such relationships. CONCLUSION:This study establishes that organizational learning capability encourages construction firms to take risks and explore new opportunities are essential for corporate environmental citizenship implementation. This study highlights the role of organizational learning capability to achieve corporate environmental citizenship irrespective of their organization age for construction firms. This study confirms the logic of Natural Resource Based View (NRBV) theory for predicting organizational learning capability as a critical foundation to build corporate environmental citizenship.
