ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Environmental Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1609809
This article is part of the Research TopicNarrating the environment: Innovation, looks and stories on real and virtual boundariesView all 6 articles
Configuring Green Behaviors in Hospitality: A Drive-State-Pressure Model Analysis of Institutional and Individual Dynamics
Provisionally accepted
- Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing, China
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As the hotel industry generates record economic value while contributing substantially to environmental challenges, the push for sustainability has intensified. The effectiveness of these efforts ultimately depends on frontline employees, whose green behaviors translate organizational commitments into practice. This study explores how institutional pressures and individual agency jointly shape hotel employees' green behaviors (EGB) using the Drive-State-Pressure (DSP) model. Through fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) of 356 Chinese hotel employees, it identifies multiple pathways leading to task-oriented (TGB) and voluntary green behaviors (VGB). Findings reveal that coercive, normative, and mimetic pressures drive TGB through compliance, whereas VGB relies on autonomy and normative alignment. The DSP model bridges macro-and micro-level institutional theory, uncovering configurational interactions and offering practical strategies for sustainability governance. Key contributions include methodological innovation via fsQCA and resolving the compliance-innovation paradox in green behavior management.
Keywords: Employee green behavior, Drive-State-Pressure model, fsQCA, institutional pressures, Sustainabilitygovernance
Received: 14 Apr 2025; Accepted: 25 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 ZHANG, CUI, Chai and Li. 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: Siqi Li, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing, China
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