Abstract:
Industrial sector in Pakistan is the second largest consumer of energy.
Industries, especially those with huge usage of energy, are reflected as main segment
towards energy utilization. In our research, we precisely built and tested a model to
determine the impact of different institutional pressures, involvement of topmanagement support and adequate amount of financial-slack towards the tendency of
manufacturing industry energy-saving behavior (ESB). Keeping in view in order to
acquaint our self we empirically examined our research hypothesis using survey data
collected from three types of manufacturing industries (i.e. automotive, textile and
cement industry) in Pakistan. Results from SPSS indicate that command-and control
instrument (CCI), incentive instrument, mimetic pressure and normative pressure
directly influence industry ESB. Whereas, the involvement of top management
positively moderates the interaction of CCI and mimetic pressure to industry ESB.
However the effect of financial slack only positively moderates the relationship
between mimetic pressure to industry ESB. Based on study outcomes, some essential
policy implications regarding industry ESB are discussed.
