Rethink the Relationship between Environmental Regulations and Green Technology Innovation in Coastal Cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 115 (sp1) ◽  
pp. 481
Author(s):  
Qian Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Environmental Regulations ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Coastal Cities ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Impact of Environmental Regulation Intensity on Green Technology Innovation: From the Perspective of Political and Business Connections

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4862
Author(s):  
Yu-Hong Ai ◽  
Di-Yun Peng ◽  
Huan-Huan Xiong
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Political Connections ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Business Connections ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

With heavy air pollution and the highest CO2 emissions in the world, China is in urgent need of technology innovation to improve the energy efficiency and control the pollution emission. This study empirically investigates the impact of environmental regulation intensity, political connections, and business connections on green technology innovation in China’s firms. The authors employ a panel data regression analysis on a dataset that comprises 884 observations for A-share listed companies from 2016 to 2019, owing to the availability of data. The results show: (1) Environmental regulation intensity (ERI) has a U-shaped effect on green technology innovation (GTI), which means GTI is inhibited by ERI in the early stage but gets promoted in the long run; (2) Political connections positively moderate the relationship between ERI and GTI mainly because of crowding-out effect and resource effect; (3) Business connections have a negative impact on the relationship between ERI and GTI, resulting from knowledge acquisition and lock-in; (4) Business connections have a greater moderating effect than political connections probably because political ties lack an effective mechanism to ensure long-term cooperation with the enterprises; (5) However, with regard to those firms in the non-heavily polluting industry, both connections moderate the relationship between ERI and GTI in an opposite direction to the main effect. The research results help policy makers formulate relevant policies, based on the impact of environmental regulation and social connections on green technology innovation.

scholarly journals Understanding the impact of environmental regulations on green technology innovation efficiency in the construction industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 102647
Author(s):  
Jingxiao Zhang ◽  
You Ouyang ◽  
Pablo Ballesteros-Pérez ◽  
Hui Li ◽  
Simon P. Philbin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Environmental Regulations ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Impacts of Environmental Regulation on the Green Transformation and Upgrading of Manufacturing Enterprises

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (20) ◽  
pp. 7680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Shen ◽  
Runjie Fan ◽  
Yuyan Wang ◽  
Zhaoqing Yu ◽  
Rongyun Tang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Econometric Model ◽  
Consumer Preference ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Manufacturing Enterprises ◽  
Chinese Manufacturing Industry ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Relationship

Since environmental problems are becoming increasingly prominent, macro policies and social development have placed higher requirements on manufacturing enterprises to promote green transformation and upgrading (GTU) in China. Considering that different manufacturing enterprises choose different green technology innovation levels for GTU under environmental regulation, a game model between manufacturing enterprises and the government is constructed. The relationship between the green technology innovation level (GTIL) and the environmental regulation intensity is analyzed. Through numerical examples, the influences of environmental regulation and consumer preference on system decisions are further examined. Moreover, an econometric model is constructed to explore the influence that the environmental regulation exerts on the GTIL using panel data from the Chinese manufacturing industry. Our results show that the increase in environmental regulation intensity contributes to improving GTIL and promoting the GTU of manufacturing enterprises. Furthermore, as the environmental regulation is enhanced, the sales price decreases, benefiting consumers. Consumers’ preference for high-GTIL products is conducive to GTU under environmental regulation. Empirical analysis shows that there is a U-shaped relationship between environmental regulation and the GTIL. Only when the intensity reaches a threshold can the environmental regulation be beneficial to improve the GTIL and promote the GTU of Chinese manufacturing enterprises.

scholarly journals Research on Enterprises’ Intention to Adopt Green Technology Imposed by Environmental Regulations with Perspective of State Ownership

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1368
Author(s):  
De Xia ◽  
Wenhua Chen ◽  
Qinglu Gao ◽  
Rui Zhang ◽  
Yundong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Technology Adoption ◽  
Environmental Regulations ◽  
Command And Control ◽  
State Ownership ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
The State ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Green Technology Adoption

Environmental regulations (ER) affect enterprise behaviors. Nevertheless, whether the state ownership influences the relationship between environmental regulations and enterprises’ green intentions and behaviors need to be explored further. In this paper, the effects of environmental regulations on enterprises’ intentions to adopt green technologies, especially the moderating role of state ownership between environmental regulations and green technologic adoption intentions (GTAI), are proposed. An empirical study is carried out with the questionnaire data collected from 207 Chinese managers and executives in order to explore the influence of environmental regulations. With the perspective of ownership, the results confirm that the three kinds of environmental regulations (command-and-control (CAC), market-based incentives (MBI) and voluntary environmental (VER) regulations) have positive effects on enterprise green technology adoption intention. Furthermore, the state ownership of enterprise plays a positive moderating role in the relationship between command-and-control environmental regulations and green technology adoption intentions, but plays a negative moderating role in the relationship between voluntary environmental regulations and green technology adoption intentions. It generates no significant moderate effect on the relationship between market-based incentives environmental regulations and green technology adoption intentions. The work verifies that the differences of ownership would lead to varying effects on the intentions of enterprise green technology adoption imposed by regulations. Managerial implications, as well as the limitation of the work, are concluded at the end of this paper.

scholarly journals Spatial Effects of Environmental Regulation and Green Credits on Green Technology Innovation Under Low-Carbon Economy Background Conditions

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (17) ◽  
pp. 3027 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guo ◽  
Zhou ◽  
Liu ◽  
Wang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Spatial Effects ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Surrounding Areas ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Carbon Economy

Based on the data of green credit (GC), environmental regulation (ER) and green technology innovation (GTI) in 30 provinces and cities of China from 2007 to 2016, this study investigated the relationship between green credit and green technology innovation development and analyzed the adjustment effect of ER on GC to promote GTI using Geoda and Matlab2016 software, so as to further guide and encourage GC. The results show that GTI in 30 provinces and municipalities in China has a significant spatial agglomeration effect. Single GC plays a certain role in promoting local technology innovation, but it fails to influences the surrounding areas. Environmental regulation has a certain regulatory effect on the relationship between green credit and green technology innovation in the province but also fails to influences the surrounding areas.

scholarly journals Can the Behavioural Spillover Effect Affect the Environmental Regulations Strategy Choice of Local Governments?

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 4975
Author(s):  
Yaling Deng ◽  
Daming You ◽  
Yang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Environmental Regulations ◽  
Evolutionary Game ◽  
Spillover Effect ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Strategy Choice ◽  
Environmental Benefit ◽  
Reduction Capacity ◽  
Investment Behaviour

Combined with the characteristics of the Chinese environmental regulation supervision system and evolutionary game theory, the spillover effect of local governments’ investment behaviour has been incorporated into their payment function to study the influence of spillover on the strategy choice of local governments and enterprises. The results show that (1) the spillover effect is one of the reasons for distortions in the implementation of environmental regulations. Whether the influence of the spillover effect on the probability of local governments choosing the strategy of strict supervision is positive or negative depends on the environmental benefit of the local government’s environmental protection investment. (2) Increasing the reward for the enterprise’s complete green technology innovation behaviour is conducive to improving the probability of the enterprises choosing the strategy of complete green technology innovation, while it reduces the probability of local governments choosing the strategy of strict supervision. Increasing punishment for enterprises’ incomplete green technology innovation behaviour is conducive to improving the probability of enterprises choosing the strategy of complete green technology innovation, but its impact on the probability of local governments choosing the strategy of strict supervision is uncertain due to the limitations of many factors. (3) Enterprises’ emission reduction capacity is positively related to the probability of the enterprises choosing the strategy of complete green technology innovation and is negatively related to the probability of local governments choosing the strategy of strict supervision. The research conclusions provide a new explanation for the distorted enforcement of environmental regulations from the perspective of the spillover of local governments’ investment behaviour.

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