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REVIEW article

Front. Sociol.
Sec. Work, Employment and Organizations
Volume 9 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1486377
This article is part of the Research Topic Green Jobs and Sustainable Employment Transitions: Navigating the Complexities of a Changing Work Landscape View all articles

Trends and Trajectories in Employee Green Behavior Research

Provisionally accepted
Azlan B. Ali Azlan B. Ali 1Huang Juan Huang Juan 1*Huang Juan Huang Juan 2
  • 1 Management and Science University, Shah Alam, Malaysia
  • 2 Guangxi Vocational Normal University, Nanning, China

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    With environmental protection awareness increasing, green innovation has become a key way for enterprises to achieve sustainable development. Research trends on employee green behavior are an important basis for formulating green behavior incentive measures and a key foundation for further exploring green innovation.However, due to the large amount of literature on employee green behavior, obtaining research trends directly related to employee green behavior takes time and effort. To solve this problem, this paper takes the relevant published literature on research on employee green behavior from 2009 to 2024 as the research object. It uses CITESPACE software to study the research trends of employee green behavior from the number change analysis of published literature, distribution region analysis of published literature, influence analysis of main authors of published literature, keyword analysis, and high-frequency word analysis. The research results show that the publication of literature on employee green behavior has been steadily increasing since 2018, and the relevant research mainly focuses on the impact of green behavior motivations, green behavior emotional factors, green behavior performance results, green self-energy efficiency, and other aspects on employee green behavior. Based on the research results, further summaries and suggestions are given to provide references for the subsequent related research in this paper.

    Keywords: Employee green behavior, green innovation, sustainability, bibliometric analysis, Research trends, Research trajectories

    Received: 26 Aug 2024; Accepted: 26 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Ali, Juan and Juan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Huang Juan, Management and Science University, Shah Alam, Malaysia

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