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Proenvironmental travel behavior among office workers: A qualitative study of individual and organizational determinants

Lo, SH; van Breukelen, GJP; Peters, G-JY; Kok, G; (2013) Proenvironmental travel behavior among office workers: A qualitative study of individual and organizational determinants. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice , 56 11 -22. 10.1016/j.tra.2013.09.002. Green open access

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Abstract

An analysis of individual and organizational determinants of proenvironmental work-related travel behavior, and their interactions, is presented. Interviews and focus groups were conducted with office workers from four organizations in two Dutch provinces. Environmentally-relevant behavior related to commutes and business trips (i.e. travel frequency, travel mode, teleworking, and teleconferencing) was examined. Evidence from interorganizational comparisons suggests that organizational measures did not have uniform effects on employee behavior which was partially due to differences in attitude and personal income. The salience of social norms pertaining to work-related travel behavior also differed between organizations and organizational subpopulations. Differences in attitudes between employees, however, did correspond to some extent to organizational culture or focus differences at the organizational level. Finally, the results underscore the possibility that similar outcomes at the behavioral level might be the result of different underlying dynamics.

Type: Article
Title: Proenvironmental travel behavior among office workers: A qualitative study of individual and organizational determinants
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2013.09.002
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2013.09.002
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords: Teleconference use, Organizational sector, Region, Theory of planned behavior, Multigroup structural equation modeling
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1418626
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