scholarly journals The Impact of Environmental Administrative Penalties on the Disclosure of Environmental Information

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 5820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiangan Ding ◽  
Ying Qu ◽  
Mohsin Shahzad
Keyword(s):  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Corporate Environmental Responsibility ◽  
Significant Interest ◽  
Environmental Information Disclosure ◽  
Environmental Disclosures ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact

Stakeholders often have a significant interest in the disclosure of information by companies that have received environmental penalties. This study examines how environmental administrative penalties influence companies’ environmental disclosures. Using a sample of 316 manufacturing companies across three years in China, the regression results indicate that the level of voluntary environmental information disclosure (EID) is significantly positively affected by environmental penalties. For companies in heavily polluting industries, environmental penalties decrease their involuntary EID. Environmental penalties also reduce the quality of environmental information, which is mainly reflected in the weakening of the integrity, comprehensibility, and relevance of environmental information in corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports or environmental reports. These findings help us to understand the sustainability of corporate environmental responsibility in the context of environmental administrative penalties.

scholarly journals The Influence of Top Managers on Environmental Information Disclosure: The Moderating Effect of Company’s Environmental Performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 1167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Ma ◽  
Qiang Zhang ◽  
Qiyue Yin ◽  
Bingcheng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Master Of Business Administration ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Top Managers ◽  
Environmental Information Disclosure ◽  
The Impact

Abundant extant literature emphasizes the impact of board members attributes’ influence on environmental information disclosure. Considering the voluntary nature of environmental information disclosure, executives have strong managerial discretion when they make such decisions, so this article focuses on top managers’ influence on environmental information disclosure. We hypothesize that top managers’ educational background and age will affect companies’ environmental decision. The hypotheses are verified with the data from Chinese listed manufacturing companies. As the results show, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) educational background and average age of top managers positively affect environmental information disclosure, while the impact of legal educational background is negative. The company’s environmental performance plays a U-shaped moderating effect on the relationship between MBA educational background and environmental information disclosure.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Environmental Information Disclosure of Listed Companies in China’s Heavy Pollution Industries: A Text Mining-Based Methodology

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5415
Author(s):  
Rongjiang Cai ◽  
Tao Lv ◽  
Xu Deng
Keyword(s):  
Text Mining ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Scoring Method ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Environmental Information Disclosure ◽  
Heavy Pollution

Environmental information disclosure (EID) of listed companies is a significant and essential reference for assessing their environmental protection commitment. However, the content and form of EID are complex, and previous assessment studies involved manual scoring mainly by the experts in this field. It is subjective and has low timeliness. Therefore, this paper proposes an automatic evaluation framework of EID quality based on text mining (TM), including the EID index system’s construction, automatic scoring of environmental information disclosure quality, and EID index calculation. Furthermore, based on the EID of 801 listed companies in China’s heavy pollution industry from 2013 to 2017, case studies are conducted. The case study results show that the overall quality of the EID of listed companies in China’s heavily polluting industries is low, and there is a gap differentiation between the 16 industries. Compared with the subjective manual scoring method, TM evaluation can evaluate the quality of EID more effectively and accurately. It has great potential and can become an essential tool for the sustainable development of society and listed companies.

Does environmental information disclosure affect the performance of energy-intensive firms’ borrowing ability? Evidence from China

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 685-705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiqing Hu ◽  
Chun-Ping Chang ◽  
Minyi Dong ◽  
Wei-Na Meng ◽  
Yu Hao
Keyword(s):  
Capital Market ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Cost Of Capital ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Environmental Information Disclosure ◽  
Loan Size ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect

In recent years, a growing strand of China’s listed companies chose to disclose environmental information, which may potentially affect their financial performance then further influence its performance of financial supports. To quantitatively investigate the impact of enterprise’s environmental information disclosure on the ability of firms’ borrowing in China, this paper divides the measurements of information disclosure into five categories and evaluates firms’ performance in capital market through its availability of a loan and the cost of capital. In total, 97 listed energy-intensive companies in China are selected and their data covering the period of 2000–2014 are utilized for empirical study. The empirical results indicate that enterprise’s environmental information disclosure appears to have a significantly positive effect on the loan size available, while the cost of capital is less sensitive to environmental information disclosure. The empirical evidence also suggests that, among the five aspects of information disclosure measurements, the future plan and monetary information are the most influential factors of the cost of capital.

scholarly journals The Impact of Mandatory Environmental Information Disclosure and the Green Innovation of Pollution-Intensive Companies? Evidence From China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qianghua Guo ◽  
Yidan Wei
Keyword(s):  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Emerging Countries ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Small Companies ◽  
Green Innovation ◽  
Environmental Information Disclosure ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect

Abstract Based on the Guidelines of the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Environmental Information Disclosure for Listed Companies issued in 2008, this paper constructs a quasi-natural experiment and uses the did method to study the impact of mandatory environmental information disclosure on the green innovation of pollution-intensive companies in China. The results show that mandatory environmental information disclosure can significantly promote the green innovation of pollution-intensive companies by strengthening the company's motivation and pressure to comply with the regulation; in addition, the positive effect is more obvious in state-owned companies, small companies and companies with poor information condition in pollution-intensive industries. This paper enriches the literature of mandatory environmental information disclosure and offers guidance for policymakers seeking to improve environmental information disclosure policies in emerging countries.

scholarly journals Analysis on Environmental Information Disclosure of Listed Companies in Heavy Pollution Industries in Shandong Province

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Shandong Province ◽  
Environmental Information Disclosure ◽  
Heavy Pollution ◽  
Countermeasures And Suggestions ◽  
Different Levels

Based on the research samples of Listed Companies in heavy pollution industries in Shandong Province, this paper studies the current situation of their environmental information disclosure, finds out the problems existing in the environmental information disclosure of such companies, analyzes the causes of the problems from different levels, and finally puts forward countermeasures and suggestions to improve the environmental information disclosure of Listed Companies in heavy pollution industries, in order to provide some reference for improving the level and quality of environmental information disclosure of Listed Companies in heavy pollution industry.

scholarly journals The Impact of Environmental Information Disclosure Quality on Loan Scale for Enterprises in China’s Heavy Polluting Industries

2021 ◽  
Vol 261 ◽  
pp. 04018
Author(s):  
Jianfei Shen ◽  
Yidan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Environmental Accounting ◽  
Bank Loans ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Bank Loan ◽  
Disclosure Quality ◽  
Environmental Disclosure ◽  
Environmental Information Disclosure ◽  
The Impact

In view of the importance of environmental accounting to ecological governance, this article attempts to study the economic consequences of environmental information disclosure quality (EID) from the perspective of bank financing. We assume that good environmental information disclosure quality can help companies obtain bank loan, and then test this conjecture through empirical methods. The data of 330 listed companies in China’s heavy polluting industries were collected, and then analysed by SPSS for regression. The result shows that EID is positively related to the scale of corporate bank loan, which means the improvement of EID can bring convenience when companies need bank loans. The research clarifies the financial consequences of EID and provides some enlightenment for the improvement of corporate environmental disclosure quality.

scholarly journals Can anti-corruption improve the quality of environmental information disclosure?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye Wei ◽  
Wenjian He
Keyword(s):  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Double Difference ◽  
Trend Test ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Environmental Information Disclosure

Abstract This study takes the anti-corruption campaign of the 18th CPC National Congress in China as an exogenous impact, using the data of heavy polluting enterprises in Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share manufacturing industry over 2008–2018 and the local level data to build a double difference (DID) model, which proves that anti-corruption can increase the quality of enterprise environmental information disclosure significantly. After a series of tests such as parallel trend test and placebo test, the results are still robust. The intermediary effect model results indicate that the anti-corruption increases the violation cost of enterprises and encourages enterprises to carry out innovation activities, and ultimately increase the quality of enterprise environmental information disclosure. Considering that enterprise nature, enterprise size, and the environmental supervision strength will influence the quality of enterprise environmental information disclosure differently. We further construct a group regression model for heterogeneity analysis and finds that non-state-owned enterprises, large enterprises and regions with more substantial environmental supervision will improve the quality of enterprise environmental information disclosure to a greater extent. The findings of paper can help understand the internal mechanism between anti-corruption and corporate environmental information disclosure and provide empirical evidence for the implementation of mandatory environmental information disclosure policy.

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