Community pressure, regulatory pressure and corporate environmental performance

2021 ◽  
pp. 031289622110171
Author(s):  
Yankun Zhou ◽  
Le Luo ◽  
Hongtao Shen
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Corporate Environmental Performance ◽  
Regulatory Enforcement ◽  
Pollution Levels ◽  
Regulatory Pressure ◽  
Environmentally Sensitive ◽  
The Government ◽  
Community Pressure ◽  
The Relationship

This article analyses the relationship between community pressure, regulatory pressure and corporate environmental performance. Using a sample of 2192 firm-year observations in environmentally sensitive industries for the period 2007–2012, we find that increased community pressure is negatively associated with corporate pollution levels and thus positively associated with corporate environmental performance. Furthermore, intensified community pressure can strengthen regulatory enforcement, but it cannot increase the size of the government subsidy allotted to environmental issues. Finally, regulatory enforcement partly mediates the relationship between community pressure and environmental performance. This study contributes to the understanding of firms’ environmental management and the interaction of community and regulatory pressure. JEL Classification: G38, M41, Q53, Q56

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.

scholarly journals Impact of Political Connections on Corporate Environmental Performance：From a Green Development Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liming Zhang ◽  
Fei Ye ◽  
Li Yang ◽  
Guichuan Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Political Connections ◽  
Corporate Environmental Performance ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Green Development ◽  
Strong Positive Association ◽  
The Relationship

Employing a sample consisting of Chinese A-share listed companies, this study carries out an empirical research to investigate the influence path of political connections on enterprise environmental performance. The results show a strong positive association between political connections and corporate environmental performance, and green technology innovation plays the mediating role between them. In addition, public participation negatively moderates the relationship between political connections and corporate environmental performance. When the level of public participation is higher, the relationship between political connections and corporate environmental performance becomes weaker.

Structural equation modelling of the impact of environmental capabilities on competitiveness

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milad Abdelnabi Salem
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modelling ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Corporate Environmental Performance ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Environmental Practices ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Industrial Companies ◽  
Equation Modelling ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of both environmental practices and corporate environmental performance on competitiveness. It determines the mediating effects of corporate environmental performance on the relationship between environmental practices and competitiveness. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts a cross-sectional survey method. The data were collected from 155 industrial companies from Libya and analysed using structural equation modelling. Findings The results indicate that environmental performance partially mediates the relationship between environmental practices and competitiveness. The mediating effects occur between competitiveness and green conventional practices, organisational practices and stakeholders’ integration. Research limitations/implications The study used a self-reported questionnaire completed by managers in Libyan industrial companies. As such, the survey data might be subject to social desirability. Additionally, the results of the study may be generalised only to a similar environment and stage of development. Practical implications The results can help companies better understand how to improve their current resources base by building incremental capabilities, which, in turn, protect the surrounding environment and enhance their competitiveness. Originality/value This study is the first to have considered the issue of incremental capabilities in the environmental domain, which can contribute significantly to better understanding the role of incremental capabilities in improving the competitiveness of companies. Additionally, it provides empirical evidence on the state-of-art of environmental practices and their consequences in less-developed countries which are characterised by scarcity of research.

HUBUNGAN ANTARA ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP DAN PERSONALITY (EXTRAVERSION) DENGAN CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Emilkamayana Emilkamayana
Keyword(s):  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Correlation Technique ◽  
Corporate Environmental Performance ◽  
Environmental Leadership ◽  
The Relationship

This research aims to determine the relationship between environmental leadership and personality (extraversion) with a corporate environmental performance on employees at PT Cahaya Anugerah Plantation Kutai Kartanegara. The method used is quantitative method with a correlation technique. The research was conducted from June to November 2016, with a total sample of 100 people. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) showed association between environmental leadership and personality (Extraversion) with a corporate environmental performance as calculated F value of 35,183 to the level of sig. of 0,000, where the figure is much lower than the level of sig. 0.05. These result indicate that environmental leadership and personality (extraversion) did significantly affect the corporate environmental performance.

How nation-level background governance conditions shape the economic payoffs of corporate environmental performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (10) ◽  
pp. 2714-2739 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sukhbir Sandhu ◽  
Marc Orlitzky ◽  
Céline Louche
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Corporate Environmental Performance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Environmental Initiatives ◽  
Financial Gain ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose Companies develop and implement environmental initiatives in particular national governance and institutional contexts. The purpose of this paper is to study how the background governance conditions of legal systems, economic policies and national culture enable or impede the relationship between corporate environmental performance (CEP) and lagged corporate financial performance (CFP). Design/methodology/approach This is an empirical study of 427 MNCs headquartered in 22 different countries. The authors merged data from the SiRi database (generally known as SustainAnalytics now), which contains ratings of stakeholder relations for 427 large corporations with publicly available data from Datastream. Findings Drawing on the new institutionalism in economics and sociology, the authors show that common-law systems and high economic freedom in a company’s home country tend to strengthen the CEP-CFP link. In addition, the home-country cultural variables of uncertainty avoidance, long-term orientation, and (to a lesser extent) masculinity may impede the deployment of CEP for maximum financial gain at the organizational level. The macrolevel analysis starts to move the field toward an understanding of the particular national governance configurations that provide the most supportive conditions for any CEP-CFP links. Originality/value One of the central questions in the field of organizations and the natural environment is about the background conditions that may incentivize and reward firms to be more environmentally responsive. The paper addresses this issue through a nation-level investigation of the background governance conditions that may help or hinder the relationship between CEP and CFP.

Geographical Spillover and Environmental Efficiency

2013 ◽  
Vol 726-731 ◽  
pp. 1138-1141
Author(s):  
Neng Shen
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Econometric Model ◽  
Environmental Efficiency ◽  
Pollutant Emissions ◽  
Obvious Effect ◽  
Regional Energy ◽  
The Government ◽  
Advanced Production ◽  
The Relationship

Taking environmental efficiency as the exclusive indicator for the relationship between environmental performance and industrial development, the author calculated the environmental efficiency of China under different pollutant disposability assumptions, while also considering environmental pollution. In addition, the author uses partial econometric model to interprets the spatial characteristics of environmental efficiency and extracts the main factors that influence the environmental efficiency. The analysis results show that: when impact of undesirable outputs (pollutant emissions) is considered, the average environmental efficiency of Chinas industries declines markedly. Environmental efficiency has the obvious effect of the spatial external effect, and when the government makes energy saving strategies, inter-regional energy cooperation and the proliferation of advanced production technology should be given more priority.

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