Corporate environmental performance and financing constraints: An empirical study in the Chinese context

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenjie Liu ◽  
Weian Li ◽  
Chen Hao ◽  
Huan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Financing Constraints ◽  
Corporate Environmental Performance ◽  
Chinese Context

Does IT matter for environmental performance? An empirical study based on the Chinese context

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (1) ◽  
pp. 14725
Author(s):  
Yi Wang ◽  
Yang Chen ◽  
Jiafei Jin ◽  
Saggi Nevo
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Chinese Context

Top executives’ compensation, industrial competition, and corporate environmental performance

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (9) ◽  
pp. 2036-2059 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. L. Zou ◽  
S. X. Zeng ◽  
H. Lin ◽  
X. M. Xie
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Corporate Environmental Performance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Chinese Context ◽  
Top Executives ◽  
Industrial Competition

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate how top executives’ compensation is associated with environmental performance in the Chinese context and how this association varies with differing levels of industrial competition. Design/methodology/approach – Combining agency and institutional theories, the empirical study is based on a sample of 698 publicly listed firms in China’s manufacturing sector. Findings – The authors find that top executives’ cash pay has a positive association, and equity ownership a negative association, with corporate environmental performance. Furthermore, in more competitive industries, both pay and ownership are more strongly associated with environmental performance, indicating that industrial competition plays a moderating role in these relationships. Practical implications – The findings imply that different incentive schemes can motivate executives toward environmental management in the Chinese context in opposite directions. They highlight the importance of improving regulation in order to motivate firms to engage in further environmental management. Originality/value – Previous work on the relationship between executives’ compensation and socially responsible activities has mainly focussed on developed countries. This study is set in an emerging economy, and identifies new evidence to show that the effect of executive incentives is institutionally specific. In addition, it explores the effect of industrial competition on executives’ incentives to engage in environmental management, suggesting an explanation for the contradictory evidence found in previous research.

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.

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