The allocation of executives’ environmental attention (EEA) is of great significance in promoting the green upgrading of industrial structures and achieving corporate green transformation. Based on upper echelon theory and the attention-based view, we use panel data of Chinese manufacturing companies from 2015 to 2020 to construct a two-way fixed effects model to explore the impact mechanism of EEA on corporate green transformation performance (CGTP). Baseline regression shows that EEA significantly improves CGTP. The reliability of findings is verified by reducing time windows, replacing the independent variable, expanding the data source, and adding missing variables. In the heterogeneity analysis, the positive effect of EEA on CGTP is significant for eastern companies and does not differ in the property rights grouping. After propensity score matching, environmental attribute grouping shows that the positive effect of EEA on CGTP is more significant for non-heavy polluters. Extended research shows that government subsidies have a positive moderating effect, while female executives play only a symbolic role. Moreover, green innovation activities have positive partial mediating effects. Green innovation is the best way to address environmental pollution and achieve corporate green transformation. Our research provides implications for decision-makers to allocate their attention, and thereby achieve green development appropriately.
The allocation of executives' environmental attention (EEA) is of great significance in promoting the green upgrading of industrial structures and achieving corporate green transformation. Based on upper echelon theory and the attention-based view, we use panel data of Chinese manufacturing companies from 2015-2020 to construct a two-way fixed effects model to explore the impact mechanism of EEA on corporate green transformation performance (CGTP). Baseline regression shows that EEA significantly improves CGTP. The reliability of findings is verified by reducing time windows, replacing the independent variable, expanding the data source and adding missing variables. In the heterogeneity analysis, the positive effect of EEA on CGTP is significant for eastern companies and does not differ in the property rights grouping. After propensity score matching, environmental attributes grouping shows that the positive effect of EEA on CGTP is more significant for non-heavy polluters. Extended research shows that government subsidies have a positive moderating effect, while female executives play only a symbolic role. Moreover, green innovation activities have positive partial mediating effects. Green innovation is the best way to address environmental pollution and achieve corporate green transformation. Our research provides implications for decision-makers to allocate their attention, and thereby achieve green development appropriately.
China's innovation capacity has been growing rapidly in recent years, but the country still needs to improve its national innovation system and form a financial services system that is compatible with the full life cycle of science and innovation companies. Looking back at China's history of financial development, the choice and feedback of commercial banks on regulatory policy has been an important factor influencing regulatory policy. With China's financial market gradually opening up to the outside world and an influx of foreign commercial banks, Chinese commercial banks are facing increasing competitive pressure. Improving the profitability of Chinese commercial banks to enhance their competitiveness has become a key to financial innovation and reform in the Chinese banking sector. Therefore, this study investigates the profitability and profit efficiency levels of Chinese banking industry over the period 2012-2020 using stochastic frontier approach. The empirical analysis leads to the following conclusions: The result is that national joint-stock commercial banks and city commercial banks, which have been given more management freedom, are trying to adapt to the dynamically changing environment and show an increase in efficiency. State-owned commercial banks maintain high levels of efficiency, but are more conservative to change. Agricultural commercial banks, for the most part, are showing efficiency gains, with no strong deterioration shown. Keywords: national innovation system, banking system, profitability, central bank, return on assets
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