A Surge toward a Sustainable Future: Organizational Change and Transformational Vision by an Oil and Gas Company

ABSTRACT Context: reflecting the call being made by the United Nations to solve our current climate challenges and reduce companies’ CO2 emissions, there is a strong need for large corporations to not only employ the terminology of sustainable transitions, but to implement strategies and select new alternative sustainable solutions. Objective: this study fills a gap in the literature by developing and validating a model that helps researchers understand the factors that enable a large corporation undergoing a sustainable transition to select its new sustainable practices. The developed model used theories of sustainability transition and institutional theory with three pillars (regulative, normative, and cognitive) in order to help understand the nature of the company’s innovation selection criteria. Method: survey-based research was carried out among an oil and gas company’s employees, and structural equation modeling was used to test the model fit, validate the survey, and test the hypotheses. Results: the results showed that normative and regulative pillars play the main role in selecting renewable energy activities as a first step toward the company’s sustainable future. Conclusion: the findings provide researchers with a valuable model for understanding the main criteria for selecting new sustainable projects in established companies.摘要 研究背景：为响应联合国解决当前气候挑战、降低企业二氧化碳（CO₂）排放的号召，大型企业亟需不仅采用可持续转型的相关理念，更要落地战略举措并甄选新型可持续替代方案。 研究目标：本研究弥补了现有文献的空白，开发并验证了一款模型，以帮助研究者理解大型企业在推进可持续转型过程中甄选新型可持续实践的影响因素。该模型整合可持续转型理论与制度理论，并引入三大支柱（规制性、规范性、认知性）以解析企业创新甄选标准的本质。 研究方法：本研究以某石油天然气企业的员工为调研对象开展问卷调查，并采用结构方程模型（Structural Equation Modeling, SEM）对模型适配性、问卷效度及研究假设进行检验。 研究结果：结果显示，规范性支柱与规制性支柱在企业选择可再生能源业务以作为迈向可持续未来的第一步中，发挥了主导作用。 研究结论：本研究结果可为研究者提供极具价值的分析模型，助力其理解成熟企业甄选新型可持续项目的核心标准。