Symbolic reactions or substantive pro‐environmental behaviour? An empirical study of corporate environmental performance under the government's environmental subsidy scheme

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 1148-1165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shenggang Ren ◽  
Duojun He ◽  
Tao Zhang ◽  
Xiaohong Chen
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Corporate Environmental Performance ◽  
Environmental Behaviour ◽  
Subsidy Scheme

Corporate environmental performance prediction in China: An empirical study of energy service companies

2020 ◽  
Vol 266 ◽  
pp. 121395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saina Zheng ◽  
Chenhang He ◽  
Shu-Chien Hsu ◽  
Joseph Sarkis ◽  
Jieh-Haur Chen
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Performance Prediction ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Corporate Environmental Performance ◽  
Service Companies ◽  
Energy Service

Empirical analysis on corporate environmental performance and environmental disclosure in an emerging market context

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 1061-1082 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merve Acar ◽  
Hüseyin Temiz
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Corporate Environmental Performance ◽  
Tobit Regression ◽  
Environmental Reporting ◽  
Environmental Disclosure ◽  
Significant Positive Association ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Environmental Disclosures

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate the association between environmental performance of firms and the level of voluntary environmental disclosure in emerging markets.Design/methodology/approachWe used tobit regression OLS and t-test methods to reveal the association between environmental performance and the level of voluntary environmental disclosure.FindingsWe find a significant positive association between the level of discretionary environmental disclosures and corporate environmental performance. The result is in line with the arguments of economics disclosure theory that argues environmentally good performers disclose more.Practical implicationsMany of the environmentally good firms in Turkey are also listed in the “BIST Sustainability Index,” and this situation can be the result of the relative power of external regulations. Accordingly, it can be suggested to increase the community and governmental pressures for environmental reporting but also gives importance to increase intrinsic motivations for companies to engage in disclosure practices.Originality/valueThis study shed light on relation between environmental performance and environmental disclosure in an emerging market context. Also, it is revisited that the relation between environmental performance and the level of environmental disclosure by testing two different predictions on the level of environmental disclosures.

scholarly journals Corporate Environmental Performance in China: The Moderating Effects of the Media versus the Approach of Local Governments

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 150
Author(s):  
Zhiru Guo ◽  
Chao Lu
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Random Effect ◽  
Random Effect Model ◽  
Corporate Environmental Performance ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

This article selects the listed companies in China’s A-share heavy pollution industry from 2014 to 2018 as samples, uses a random effect model to empirically test the relationship between media attention and corporate environmental performance and examines the impacts of local government environmental protection and property nature on that relationship. Results are as follow: (1) Media attention can significantly affect a company’s environmental performance. The higher the media attention, the greater the company’s supervision and the better its environmental performance. (2) In areas where the government pays less attention to environmental protection, the impact of media on corporate environmental performance is more obvious, but in other areas, the impact of media on environmental performance cannot be reflected; (3) The media attention is very significant for the environmental performance improvement of state-owned enterprises, and it is not obvious in non-state-owned enterprises. (4) A further breakdown of the study found that the role of media attention in corporate environmental performance is only significant in the sample of local governments that have low environmental protection and are state-owned enterprises. This research incorporates the local government’s emphasis on environmental protection into the research field of vision, expands the research scope of media and corporate environmental performance, and also provides new clues and evidence for promoting the active fulfillment of environmental protection responsibilities by companies and local governments.

From Iran: Does Improvement in Corporate Environmental Performance Affect Corporate Risk Taking?

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 17-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farshid Khairollahi ◽  
Farhad Shahveisi ◽  
Alireza Vafaei ◽  
Mohammad Alipour
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Corporate Environmental Performance ◽  
Corporate Risk
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