Corporate environmental performance prediction in China: An empirical study of energy service companies

Does Water, Waste, and Energy Consumption Influence Firm Performance? Panel Data Evidence from S&P 500 Information Technology Sector

“…Corporate liquidity measures are covered driven by that fact that enterprises that suffer from a low liquidity level may attempt to lifting their disclosure level of the CSR and voluntary actions [ 102 ]. In line with earlier research [ 13 , 24 , 26 , 29 , 31 , 33 , 34 , 36 , 38 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 77 , 84 , 86 , 88 , 90 , 99 , 100 , 101 ], indebtedness was included here because of the fact that a minor financial risk motivates an enterprise to implement technical innovation because it is convenient to persuade lenders and attract capital [ 18 ]. Fakoya [ 41 ] noticed that indebtedness measures the amount that a firm is funded by debt capital and shows the level to which external resources finance ecological investments.…”

“…Nishitani and Kokubu [ 38 ] confirmed that environmental performance boosts added value by directly amending the production process and indirectly amending rising demand through unveiled ecological evidence. Additionally, institutional theory specifies that enterprises under strong institutional burden will acquire legitimacy by demonstrating good environmental performance [ 43 ]. Mungai, Ndiritu, and Rajwani [ 45 ] concluded that the implementation of voluntary environmental management systems is related to the betterment of ecological performance in Kenya.…”

“…Prior research has focused on energy efficiency and financial performance in Korea [ 19 ], China [ 20 ], Spain and Slovenia [ 21 ]; energy efficiency and productivity/exporting in Latin America [ 3 ], Ethiopia [ 22 ], and India [ 23 , 24 ]; waste and enterprise performance in Japan [ 25 ] and the US [ 26 , 27 ]; emissions and firm performance in Europe [ 28 , 29 , 30 ], Japan [ 25 ], and the US [ 26 , 31 , 32 ]; and other diverse countries worldwide [ 33 ]. Additionally, earlier studies have focused on a wide range of industries [ 2 , 27 , 30 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 ]; manufacturing firms [ 21 , 24 , 25 , 31 , 37 , 38 , 39 ]; manufacturing and industry [ 40 ]; manufacturing, service, and IT organizations [ 1 ]; mining and manufacturing companies [ 41 ]; energy companies [ 19 , 20 , 42 , 43 ]; fossil fuel-related and non-fossil-fuel-related industries [ 44 ]; and industrial and commercial firms [ 45 ]. Nevertheless, industries intensely diverge in their emanations, whilst a company’s environmental performance substantially hinges on its industrial positions [ 46 ].…”

Association between exposure to airborne pollutants and COVID-19 in Los Angeles, United States with ensemble-based dynamic emission model

“…However, there exists three limitations that needs to be addressed. Firstly, this study did not consider the use of well-established ecological modeling techniques ( Saez et al, 2020 ; Stieb et al, 2020 ; Zheng et al, 2020 ). On the contrary, it employs fundamental techniques, such as Spearman, and Kendall correlation.…”

Corporate Environmental Performance in China: The Moderating Effects of the Media versus the Approach of Local Governments

“…There is currently some literature on the impact of government regulations on environmental performance. Zheng et al considered the impact of institutional background on corporate environmental performance in their research [ 20 ]; Chen et al made local environmental regulations as a moderating factor and found that local government environmental regulations have a positive effect on corporate environmental performance [ 21 ].…”