scholarly journals DEVELOPER’S WILLINGNESS TO CONSTRUCT GREEN DWELLINGS IN CHINA: FACTORS AND STIMULATING POLICIES

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 378-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenchen He ◽  
Xiaoming Wang ◽  
Guochao Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Living Condition ◽  
Market Development ◽  
Building Stock

Green dwelling (GD) is a way to mitigate impacts of the building stock on environment and provide a better living condition for residences. However, the number of GDs is relatively small. Especially in China, GDs only account for less than 0.4% of the total buildings. It is directly due to the shortage of supply, which is influenced by the lack of willingness to develop. To stimulate the GD diffusion, the study applies structural equation model to analyse the factors in developers’ willingness to construct GDs, considering the inter-relationships and relative influences among factors. Further, it calculates the influence of each policy and policy subseries on developers’ willingness. It is showed that developers’ willingness is mostly influenced by their developing ability, followed by market development. Then comes government policy and corporate responsibility. In terms of stimulating policies on developers’ willingness, floor-to-area density award is of the biggest impact, followed by the green building requirement and interest rare. As to the policy subseries, mandatory requirements has larger effects on developers then voluntary incentives. Besides, in China, developers are more sensitive to financial incentives than non-financial ones. Accordingly, suggestions for policy making are proposed to stimulate developers to construct GDs.

scholarly journals What Hinders the Development of Green Building? An Investigation of China

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (17) ◽  
pp. 3140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wu ◽  
Jiang ◽  
Cai ◽  
Wang ◽  
Li
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Potential Barriers ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
The Status

With the rapid development of the economy, people are paying more and more attention to the environmental problems. In this circumstance, the concept of a circular economy is proposed for making efficient use of resources and minimizing the production of waste and other emissions. Each year, the construction sector consumes a vast volume of resources and makes impacts on the environment. To align with the development of the circular economy, the concept of green building is proposed. In China, though the concept of green building has been promoted for decades, the development status is far from optimistic. Thus, this paper aims to investigate the barriers that hinder green building development (GBD) in China. Through a systematic review and semi-structured interviews with experienced industrial practitioners, 24 potential barriers of GBD in China were identified. A questionnaire survey was then conducted for data collection. After descriptive and inferential statistical analyses, a partial least squares structural equation model (PLS-SEM) was established to investigate the impacts of different barriers on GBD. Results showed that the lack of policy and industry guidance, the immature market environment, and the lack of environmental awareness are the most important GBD barriers in China. This research can assist stakeholders in better understanding the status of GBD in China and enable decision-makers to formulate appropriate strategies to promote green building.

scholarly journals Key Factors to Green Building Technologies Adoption in Developing Countries: The Perspective of Chinese Designers

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 4135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Wang ◽  
Shoujian Zhang ◽  
Yikun Su ◽  
Xinyang Deng
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Model ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
The Sustainable Development

Green building is deemed an effective means to realize the sustainable development of environment, economy and society in the construction industry. Green building technologies (GBTS) are important to realize green buildings. In order to make the application of GBTS be adopted and popularized effectively, it is especially important for us to gain thorough comprehension of the key problems that affect the adoption of GBTS. The target of this paper is to better understand the adoption of GBTS from the perspective of designers. This article utilizes a questionnaire to investigate Chinese architectural designers. Through establishing a structural equation model and an analysis of the survey data, the key factors influencing the adoption of GBTS by designers in the Design Company were found out. The results denote that the adoption motivation, the capability of GBTS, the knowledge structure and the defects of GBTS are the significant factors that affect designers’ adoption behaviors. However, the management support of GBTS has no significant effect on designers’ adoption behavior. The research results are helpful to improve adoption of GBTS in design units and accelerate the transformation of GBTS achievements. Additionally, they can promote the application of GBTS in the field of construction. Based on the quantitative theoretical model (the structural equation model), this paper finds out the key factors that affect the application of GBTS from the perspective of designers, enriching the theoretical methods of GBTS research and complementing the relevant literature of GBTS research. Future research will analyze the adoption behavior of GBTS from the point of other stakeholders and from the internal level of the design units.

scholarly journals Green Shipping Effect on Sustainable Economy and Environmental Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4256
Author(s):  
J. Augusto Felício ◽  
Ricardo Rodrigues ◽  
Vitor Caldeirinha
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Green Management ◽  
Sustainable Economy ◽  
Pollution Impact ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Green Shipping

This paper focuses on green shipping and its’ influence on the sustainable economy and environmental performance. Based on the green shipping approach, this empirical study examines a survey sample of 193 responses from Portuguese and Spanish executive managers and uses exploratory factor analysis and structural equation model. The Green shipping approach supports the green theory. The results show the importance of green efficiency, green management, and pollution impact. The confirmation of the sizeable influence of green shipping on the sustainable economy and environmental performance constructs constitutes a major contribution to the literature. Green management and green efficiency contribute to controlling the impact of pollution with practical effects on economic sustainability. Another contribution arises from the fact that tax and financial incentives and environmental sustainability regulations indicate the relevance of the pollution impact and sustainable economy.

scholarly journals Strategy to Develop Reputation in Green Building in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 1468-1479
Author(s):  
Taty Romauli ◽  
Prof. Dr. Tri Widyastuti, SE, Ak, MM, CA ◽  
Dr. Fahrudddin Salim, SE, MM
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Structural Equation Model ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Company Performance ◽  
Company Reputation ◽  
Excellent Service ◽  
The Relationship

Previous studies had examined The Green Building in Indonesia, but none have discussed more thoroughly the relationship between competitive advantage, service quality, company performance, and implications for the company reputation. The purpose of this study is to get a clearer picture of how the Green Building’s competitive advantage together with the excellent service quality provided by the Green Building can improve the performance, and the final result is how the company's reputation is formed. This research was conducted with quantitative techniques by involving 30 building managers of the Green Building in Jakarta. To analyze the relationship between variables, this study used Structural Equation Model approached with SmartPLS. The result of this research is the company’s competitive advantage will have a small effect on the company performance, and company reputation if the service quality provided is not excellent.

scholarly journals Identification of Driving Factors for Green Building Development in China

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-96
Author(s):  
Xia Wang ◽  
Hong Ren ◽  
Weiguang Cai ◽  
Yan Liu ◽  
Lizi Luo
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Driving Factors ◽  
Path Coefficient ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Market Effects ◽  
Incentive Policies ◽  
Government Body

Green building (GB) has been actively promoted in many countries, but it has not become the mainstream in Chinese construction industry due to various reasons. This paper aims to investigate the major driving factors for the development of GB with reference of the Chinese construction market. Twenty-one factors influencing the development of GB were identified through a literature review, questionnaire survey, and face-to-face interview with professionals in the construction industry. Structural equation model was established to identify the critical driving path and three critical factors hierarchies. The result of model analysis also verifies the theoretical hypotheses that government body is the biggest motivation for the development of GB, and the path coefficient is high. The results demonstrate the necessity for the formulation of incentive policies and power of GB propaganda. We identify distinct government and market effects and then induce a government-led GB development path. These findings provide a valuable reference for government body aiming at promoting GB in the construction industry to put forward relevant policies and incentives and for the market body to understand the major driving factors and path when making decisions.

scholarly journals Factors Affecting the Marketing Efficiency of Gambier Commodity in Lima Puluh Kota Regency, West Sumatra, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Muhammad Hendri ◽  
Rahmat Syahni ◽  
Nofialdi Nofialdi ◽  
Ifdal Ifdal
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Substantial Impact ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Marketing Efficiency ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
Marketing Margins ◽  
Pls Method

This research is motivated by the condition of Gambier marketing in Limapuluh Kota Regency, the Gambier center of West Sumatera and Indonesia, which is still experiencing problems and tends to be inefficient because of the high marketing margins, and the low share received by farmers. This study aims to analyze what factors influence the marketing efficiency of Gambier commodities in Lima Puluh Kota Regency. In this study, the researcher uses a Structural Equation Model (SEM) PLS method by taking 100 Gambier producers from Kapur IX sub-district and Pangkalan Koto Baru sub-district as research sites. The results showed that the variables of human resources, marketing institutions, products, capital, and markets significantly affect the marketing efficiency of Gambier commodities in the research site. Only the variable of government policy did not have a substantial impact on marketing efficiency

scholarly journals Ease of Doing Business and Capital Market Development in a Demand Following Hypothesis: Evidence from ECOWAS

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-54
Author(s):  
Kamaldeen Ibraheem Nageri
Keyword(s):  
Capital Market ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
West African ◽  
Market Development ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Access To Credit ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Ease Of Doing Business ◽  
The Government

AbstractCapabilities of African businesses in a transformative role in solving the continent‘s challenges are underestimated and misunderstood. This study examined ease of doing business and financial development from a demand following hypothesis in the West African sub-region, employed Structural Equation Model covering the period of 2004 - 2017. Ten ease of doing business indicators and five distinct financial (capital market) development variables from the World Bank database were used. Findings indicate weak demand following the hypothesis of capital market development: positive and negative, depending on the measure of capital market development from the ease of doing business for West African countries majorly because of inadequate electricity. The indirect effect of the construction permit, property registration, access to credit, minority investors‘ protection and cross-border trading are indirectly significant to capital market development while starting a business, tax-paying, contract enforcement and settling insolvency are insignificant. The study recommended roadshow by West African capital markets to improve the listing of companies and the government should improve on the electricity supply.

Idiographic Dynamics of Positive Affect in GAD

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 500-509
Author(s):  
Hannah G. Bosley ◽  
Devon B. Sandel ◽  
Aaron J. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Positive Affect ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Aggregated Data ◽  
Regulatory Strategy ◽  
Constant State ◽  
Automatic Search ◽  
Time Lagged ◽  
Exploratory Procedure

Abstract. Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is associated with worry and emotion regulation difficulties. The contrast-avoidance model suggests that individuals with GAD use worry to regulate emotion: by worrying, they maintain a constant state of negative affect (NA), avoiding a feared sudden shift into NA. We tested an extension of this model to positive affect (PA). During a week-long ecological momentary assessment (EMA) period, 96 undergraduates with a GAD analog provided four daily measurements of worry, dampening (i.e., PA suppression), and PA. We hypothesized a time-lagged mediation relationship in which higher worry predicts later dampening, and dampening predicts subsequently lower PA. A lag-2 structural equation model was fit to the group-aggregated data and to each individual time-series to test this hypothesis. Although worry and PA were negatively correlated in 87 participants, our model was not supported at the nomothetic level. However, idiographically, our model was well-fit for about a third (38.5%) of participants. We then used automatic search as an idiographic exploratory procedure to detect other time-lagged relationships between these constructs. While 46 individuals exhibited some cross-lagged relationships, no clear pattern emerged across participants. An alternative hypothesis about the speed of the relationship between variables is discussed using contemporaneous correlations of worry, dampening, and PA. Findings suggest heterogeneity in the function of worry as a regulatory strategy, and the importance of temporal scale for detection of time-lagged effects.

Differential Item Functioning in Brief Instruments of Disordered Eating

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 823-833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desiree Thielemann ◽  
Felicitas Richter ◽  
Bernd Strauss ◽  
Elmar Braehler ◽  
Uwe Altmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Differential Item Functioning ◽  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Young Female ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
German Population ◽  
Test Fairness ◽  
Item Functioning ◽  
Multiple Indicator

Abstract. Most instruments for the assessment of disordered eating were developed and validated in young female samples. However, they are often used in heterogeneous general population samples. Therefore, brief instruments of disordered eating should assess the severity of disordered eating equally well between individuals with different gender, age, body mass index (BMI), and socioeconomic status (SES). Differential item functioning (DIF) of two brief instruments of disordered eating (SCOFF, Eating Attitudes Test [EAT-8]) was modeled in a representative sample of the German population ( N = 2,527) using a multigroup item response theory (IRT) and a multiple-indicator multiple-cause (MIMIC) structural equation model (SEM) approach. No DIF by age was found in both questionnaires. Three items of the EAT-8 showed DIF across gender, indicating that females are more likely to agree than males, given the same severity of disordered eating. One item of the EAT-8 revealed slight DIF by BMI. DIF with respect to the SCOFF seemed to be negligible. Both questionnaires are equally fair across people with different age and SES. The DIF by gender that we found with respect to the EAT-8 as screening instrument may be also reflected in the use of different cutoff values for men and women. In general, both brief instruments assessing disordered eating revealed their strengths and limitations concerning test fairness for different groups.

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