How to Promote the Agricultural Company Through Environmental Social Responsibility to Achieve Sustainable Production?

This survey employs the multilevel growth curve model to demonstrate how to promote the development of the company’s environmental innovation in agricultural companies specializing in the agricultural production and export of agricultural products to achieve sustainable production through environmental social responsibility and environmental engagement according to the engagement theory. The empirical data are collected 30 chief executive officers and their 90 supervisors of top management teams (TMTs) of Taiwanese agricultural companies in 2 months. The empirical results demonstrate that environmental social responsibility significantly influences the top management teams’ environmental engagement development, which in turn significantly influences the agricultural company’s environmental innovation. These empirical results can not only promote the sustainable production literature in the agricultural field but also help these agricultural companies implement environmental innovation to realize sustainable production of agricultural exports.

Does Environmental Regulation Promote Environmental Innovation? An Empirical Study of Cities in China

Promoting environmental innovation through environmental regulation is a key measure for cities to reduce environmental pressure; however, the role of environmental regulation in environmental innovation is controversial. This study used the number of environmental patent applications to measure urban environmental innovation and analyzed the role of urban environmental regulation on urban environmental innovation with the help of the spatial Durbin model (SDM). The results showed that: (1) From 2007 to 2017, the number of environmental patent applications in China has grown rapidly, and technologies related to buildings dominated the development of China’s environmental innovation. (2) Although the number of cities participating in environmental innovation was increasing, China’s environmental innovation activities were highly concentrated in a few cities (Beijing, Shenzhen, and Shanghai), showing significant spatial correlation and spatial agglomeration characteristics. (3) Urban environmental regulation had a positive U-shaped relationship with urban environmental innovation capability, which was consistent with what the Porter hypothesis advocates.

SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION TYPES: A BIBLIOMETRIC REVIEW

The synonymic use of sustainable innovation types obstructs the impact of increasingly disperse research on sustainable innovation, environmental innovation, eco-innovation, and green innovation. To identify the meaning and contributions of each innovation type over time, we apply co-word analysis as a bibliometric technique to 1,985 papers, analysing the evolution of motor, emergent and basic themes for each type. For environmental innovation, the focus has shifted from environmental regulations and policies to patents and inventions with an environmental impact, while in sustainable innovations the societal impact of technology adoption has become a driver. Green innovation increasingly concerns environmental technology and its management, whereas eco-innovation studies aspects related to efficiency and decision making. Clear distinctions among sustainable innovation types will increase the impact of this expanding body of research and make it more available to managers and policymakers.

The Impact of Sustainable Environmental Innovation on Companies’ Financial Performance in Far East Asia for the Period of 2012-2019

This study aims to determine the effect of environmental innovation on companies’ financial performance. The total sample used in this research is 275 publicly listed companies operating in China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines for the period of 2012-2019. In constructing the analysis, this study uses balanced panel data and robust fixed effect model. The result suggests insignificant relationship between environmental innovation and companies’ financial performance in the short-term. While in the longer term, this study shows a significant relationship between environmental innovation and companies’ financial performance. However, there are inconsistencies still found in the relationship between the two variables due to negative and positive associations in the regression result. This is mainly because the innovation success can be affected by other factors such as the innovation management and the market introduction timing as well. Thus, future research needs to take those factors into account when trying to identify the impact of innovation on financial performance.