Can Both Substantive and Symbolic Environmental Management get Paid? - An Empirical Study Based on China Listing Corporation

2013 ◽  
Vol 807-809 ◽  
pp. 760-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Wen Gou
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Corporate Financial Performance ◽  
Spearman Correlation ◽  
Corporate Environmental Management ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Symbolic Approach ◽  
The Relationship

Starting with the illogical reality that with the improvement of corporate environmental management, the nature environment is getting worse, we empirically studied the relationship between environmental management and corporate financial performance. We choose the listed companies that published social, environmental or sustainable reports during 2010 and 2011 as a study sample. The Spearman correlation was used in SPSS 20. Through content analysis, we found that symbolic approach will benefit the CFP, while substantive approach did not show significant effect.

scholarly journals Environmental Management, Green Innovation, and Social–Open Innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Pham Thu Huong ◽  
Jacob Cherian ◽  
Nguyen Thi Hien ◽  
Muhammad Safdar Sial ◽  
Sarminah Samad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Green Innovation ◽  
Social Image ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Corporate Environmental Management ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The present study aims to determine the impact of green innovation (GI) on the overall performance of an organization while keeping the variable of environmental management (EM) as a moderator. We used a dataset consisting of four data years, from 2014 to 2017, of A-share companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE). The concept of green innovation refers to the use of advancements in technology that enable savings in energy, along with the recycling of waste material. When advanced technology is utilized in the production process, the products are referred to as green products and the whole process of adopting such technologies and product design is referred to as “Corporate Environmental Management”. Such innovations improve the overall financial performance of companies as it enables them to improve their social image by reducing their carbon footprint and ensures their long-term sustainability. The main issue is the limited focus and attention given to the topic, from the perspective of companies. This research focuses on the impact of green innovation and the importance of environmental management for the sustainability of companies. Our findings suggest that the relationship between green innovation and the performance of the company is positive and verifies the existence of moderating effects of environmental management on the relationship between green innovation and firm performance. Implications are given to academia and practitioners.

Sustainability Disclosure and the Financialization of Social Sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Woschnack ◽  
Stefanie Hiss ◽  
Sebastian Nagel ◽  
Bernd Teufel
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Financial Market ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Rating Agencies ◽  
Sustainability Disclosure ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract This empirical study explores the financialization of social sustainability driven by sustainability accounting and reporting initiatives (SARIs). Since no globally accepted definition of what social sustainability encompasses exists, the paper asks how social sustainability is translated into the financial market language by SARIs as they provide standards for disclosing corporate non-financial performance and promote their concepts of social sustainability. The paper uses a two-step qualitative content analysis. First, it operationalizes social sustainability based on the empirical data of six sustainability rating agencies. Second, this operationalization is compared with the concepts created by three SARIs. The paper shows significant differences between the concepts of the SARIs and the rating agencies. While the rating agencies altogether interpret social sustainability with 83 distinct aspects, the SARIs, although differently created, use significant reduced concepts where 20% of these aspects are absent. The result of this financialization process could be a simplified and financially determined concept of social sustainability within die socially discourse. The research is limited to social sustainability and its financialization by SARIs. Individual indicators and their way or intensity to capture aspects of social sustainability were not part of the research interest. Further research should investigate the economic and the ecological pillars of sustainability as well as the usage of such financialized concepts within the society and especially by corporations. The paper unfolds the arbitrariness of operationalizing a qualitative phenomenon like social sustainability through the financial system. It discloses the need for looking at the mechanisms behind such processes and at the interests of the actors behind the frameworks. The paper reveals the financialization process driven by SARIs and demonstrates its simplifying effects on the concept of social sustainability. Furthermore, the paper shows that SARIs as metrics for non-financial aspects are troubled with a lack of transparency and a lack of convergence.

scholarly journals CSR and Corporate Financial Performance: An Inter-Sectorial Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Salvi ◽  
Emanuele Doronzo ◽  
Anastasia Giakoumelou ◽  
Felice Petruzzella
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Method Of Moments ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moments ◽  
Geographic Area ◽  
Corporate Financial Performance ◽  
Thomson Reuters ◽  
Sectorial Analysis ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate financial performance (CFP), shedding new light on the lack of academic consensus and prevailing failure to deal with endogeneity in data. To this purpose, the authors recalculate ESG performance starting from the four pillars (economic, environmental, governance and social) provided by Thomson Reuters’ Asset4 database, able to determine a firm’s CSP. We adjust each ESG pillar score accounting for the firm’s sector, size and headquarter geographic area. We empirically test the relationship with a Generalized Method of Moments approach (GMM) in order to tackle the widely disputed endogeneity issues arising in this type of datasets. Results highlight a positive relationship between CSR, as measured in a tailored manner in this study, and corporate financial performance.

scholarly journals THE MODERATING EFFECT OF INDEPENDENT COMMISIONERS ON FINANCIAL POLICY AND PUBLIC OWNERSHIP TOWARD CORPORATE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Niko Silitonga
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Measurement Instrument ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Corporate Financial Performance ◽  
Financial Policy ◽  
Public Ownership ◽  
The Relationship

<p align="center"><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p><em>The corporate financial performance is one of the measurement instrument whether the company is sustainable. This study aims to determine the effect of financial policy and public ownership on corporate financial performance with Independence of commissioners as a moderating variable in mining companies listed on Indonesia Stock Exchanges. This research uses a quantitative research model using secondary data. The data in this study were processed by the Moderating Regression Analysis (MRA) method supported by the IBM SPSS and Microsoft Excel programs as support software with data analysis techniques in the form of a classic assumption test and R2 test, F test, and t test. The population in this study are companies that have reported annual reports consistently during the 2014-2017 period. This study used a purposive sampling technique and obtained as many as 19 companies in accordance with predetermined criteria. The results of this study indicate that financial policy proxied by debt policy (DER) has a significant and positive effect on corporate financial performance, public ownership has no significant effect on corporate financial performance, independence commissioners strengthen the relationship between financial policy on corporate financial performance and independence commissioners do not has a moderating role between the relationship between Public Ownership and corporate financial performance. This study uses data from mining sector companies, it is recommended for further research to use other sectors such as: Property &amp; Real Estate Sector, Manufacturing Sector, and others listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange.</em> <em>The implications of this study for the company management, this research can provide input to the company to be able to choose and use an independent commissioner who fulfills expertise in the financial and business fields of his company in order to make a decision on his company's financial policy.</em></p><strong>Keywords:</strong> <em>Independence of Commissioners, Financial Policy, Public Ownership, Corporate Financial Performance</em>.

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