The research on organizational citizenship behavior has attracted wide attention, while the research on organizational citizenship behavior for the environment has not yet been paid enough attention to. It was not until 2009 that the concept describing the environment protection behavior of employees in the work scenes began to be mentioned in organizational and management field and constantly attracted attention. Based on foreign research development of this topic, this paper firstly introduces the background and concept of organizational citizenship behavior for the environment (OCBE). Then, it illustrates the development of OCBE's scales development and related research. From the perspectives of social exchange theory, social learning theory and the theory of planned behavior, it summarizes related empirical research and theoretical exploration achievements. On this basis, it systematically constructs a research framework, and proposes prospects for the exploration of antecedents, interdisciplinary cooperation, scales development and sample choice for future study, to provide reference for domestic research.