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CES on plastic pollution control

Table 2. Demographic information
Item Description Frequency Percentage
Job designation Financial manager 31 25
Management accountant 32 25.8
Factory accountant 31 25
Chief accountant 30 24.2
Employment experience 0–5 years 11 8.9
6–10 years 25 20.2
11–15 years 36 29
16–20 years 36 29
>21 years 16 12.9
Firm scale Small 57 46
Medium 39 31.5
Large 28 22.6
Environmental costs Yes 87 70.2
No 37 29.8
Environmental activities Yes 84 67.7
No 40 32.2

Table 3. Reliability and validity results from exploratory factor analysis
Constructs Items Loading Cronbach’s alpha Eigenvalue Variance
CES CES1 0.667 0.719 2.793 5.270
CES2 0.587
CES3 0.590
CES4 0.580
PPC INF2 0.599 0.869 3.548 6.694
INF8 0.667
INF9 0.681
PPC1 0.624
PPC3 0.572
PPC4 0.500
PPC6 0.566
ERA6 0.567
Notes: KMO=0.774; χ =5449.334; df=1378; p<0.001.
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Abbreviations: CES: Corporate environmental strategy; ERA: Environmental related activities; INF: Environmental information;
PPC: Plastic pollution control.
of factors. According to Shrestha Cronbach’s alpha 0.6 and 0.8) and a corrected item-total correlation larger
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measures a questionnaire’s reliability. It gives a than 0.3 is regarded as trustworthy. During this phase
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straightforward approach to determining whether a of analysis and as illustrated in Table 3, the internal
score is credible. It assumes several items measure consistency of constructs (all relative) was examined,
the same underlying notion. Cronbach’s alpha is and composite reliability values of both constructs
a measurement of internal consistency. It is also exceeded 0.70, which suggests moderate (acceptable)
regarded as a metric of scale dependability. Cronbach’s reliability CES and PPC scores of 0.719 and 0.869,
alpha varies from 0 to 1. In general, Cronbach’s alpha respectively. The next phase requires establishing
values >0.7 are regarded as acceptable. However, the validity of each construct, which is indicated by
other scholars have highlighted that an item with a the variance, and as illustrated in Table 3 above, the
Cronbach’s alpha score of >0.6 (acceptable between variances have a value of 0.5 and higher. This indicates

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