scholarly journals Do Tournament Incentives Matter for CEOs to Be Environmentally Responsible? Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies

2022 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 470
Author(s):  
Sajid Ullah ◽  
Farman Ullah Khan ◽  
Laura-Mariana Cismaș ◽  
Muhammad Usman ◽  
Andra Miculescu
Keyword(s):  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Green Innovation ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Top Executives ◽  
Tournament Theory ◽  
Chinese Listed Companies ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
Environmental Legitimacy

Relying on tournament theory and environmental management research, we examine how CEO tournament incentives induce top executives to invest more in green innovation. Using a sample of Chinese listed companies from 2010 to 2016, we find evidence that CEO tournament incentives are positively associated with green innovation. In addition, we find that a positive relationship between CEO tournament incentives and green innovation is stronger in state-owned enterprises than in non-state-owned enterprises. These results support tournament theory, which proposes that better incentives induce top executives’ efforts to win the tournament incentives, and such efforts are subject to fiercer competition among employees, which improves firms’ social and financial performance. Moreover, our findings have implications for policy makers and regulators who wish to enhance environmental legitimacy by providing tournament incentives to top executives.

scholarly journals R&D Investment, Financial and Environmental Performance Nexuses via Bootstrap Fourier Quantiles Granger Causality Test

Economies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Feng-Li Lin
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Granger Causality ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Co2 Emission ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Granger Causality Test ◽  
Causality Test ◽  
Emission Reductions ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
D Investment

This study investigated the relationship between R&D investments and financial and environmental performance. The direction, size, and significance of various phases of these variables were generated using the bootstrap Fourier quantiles Granger causality test. In our results, a positive relationship between R&D investment and CO2 emission reductions was found at two tails of quantiles. Additionally, we observed a significantly positive relationship between financial performance and CO2 emission reductions at the 0.5 quantile and above. The correlation between R&D investment and financial performance was identified to be positive under the 0.3, 0.4, 0.5 and 0.9 quantiles and negative under the 0.5 and 0.6 quantiles. The changing linkages among R&D investment, environmental performance and financial performance found in this study provide important information for policy makers, aiding in the development of R&D strategies to upgrade financial and environmental performance simultaneously.

The impact of shareholding structure on firm investment: Evidence from Chinese listed companies

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 85-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex A. Chen ◽  
Hong Cao ◽  
Dayong Zhang ◽  
David G. Dickinson
Keyword(s):  
Listed Companies ◽  
Firm Investment ◽  
Chinese Listed Companies ◽  
The Impact
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