Distance matters: Investigating how geographic proximity to ENGOs triggers green innovation of heavy-polluting firms in China

Hu, Chuan; Mao, Jianghua; Tian, Meng; Wei, Yuanying; Guo, Linying; Wang, Zi-Hao

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111542

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“…Ecological modernisation theory 1 [38] Economy geography theory 1 [36] Evolutionary economic theory 1 [28] Knowledge-based view 1 [19] Knowledge management theory 1 [75] Market orientation theory 1 [48] Imprinting theory 1 [35] Information processing theory 1 [74] Gender socialization theory 1 [59] Psychological contract violation theory 1 [50] Transaction cost economics 1 [51] Resource orchestration theory 1 [72] Signal transmission theory 1 [47] Social exchange theory 1 [33] (continued ) Strategic choice theory 1 [34] Note(s): The number in brackets corresponds to the article number in Appendix Table A2 Table 3.…”

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Toward green innovation ecosystems: past research on green innovation and future opportunities from an ecosystem perspective

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Day

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to synthesize the extant literature on green innovation (GI), and more importantly, to provide future directions for GI research from the innovation ecosystem (IE) perspective.Design/methodology/approachA systematic literature review is conducted to summarize the status of current GI research, followed by content analysis to identify connectivity and crossovers between key concepts in the bodies of GI and IE literature. Then, the authors propose a green innovation ecosystem (GIE) framework and offer recommendations for future research on GI.FindingsIt is evident that the bodies of GI and IE literature overlap on the roles of external actors, and yet, there is scant research investigating GI activities from the IE perspective. Moreover, there are multiple directions worthy of future research applying the proposed GIE framework.Originality/valueThough the concept of ecosystem has become pervasive in innovation management research, this study is one of the first works to introduce IE concepts and propositions in the GI research context. This paper provides new knowledge on GIEs and sets the basis for further investigation.

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“…Prior studies suggest that both green product innovation and green process innovation are critical determinants of a firm's sustainable performance (e.g. Bhatia, 2021; Hu et al. , 2021; Wei and Sun, 2021).…”

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Toward green innovation ecosystems: past research on green innovation and future opportunities from an ecosystem perspective

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“…The viewpoint described above is founded on two predictions. The first is that regulatory distance exacerbates the impact of information asymmetry [30,31]. With increase in regulatory distance, regulators need to spend more time, energy, money, and other resources to collect relevant information on listed companies, which weakens the ability of regulators to obtain corporate environmental protection information.…”

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Can Financial Constraints and Regulatory Distance Reduce Corporate Environmental Irresponsibility?

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Zhou

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Sustainability

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As global environmental problems become increasingly severe, corporate social (environmental) responsibility has become a hot topic in research, but there is still a lack of clear understanding of corporate environmental irresponsibility behavior and the driving factors behind this behavior. Our research aims to reveal the factors affecting corporate environmental irresponsibility from both internal and external perspectives. Inside enterprises, financial constraints will affect the degree of capital adequacy and thus affect the environmental behavior of enterprises. Externally, the fulfillment of corporate environmental responsibility will be affected by external regulatory pressure. Taking 399 A-share listed companies in China’s heavily polluting industries as the research objects, this paper empirically analyzes the influence paths and internal mechanisms of financial constraints and regulatory distance on corporate environmental irresponsibility, and it further divides regulatory distance into physical regulatory distance and power regulatory distance. This paper’s findings show that both financial constraints and physical regulatory distance were positively correlated with corporate environmental irresponsibility in China, and that the positive correlation between physical regulatory distance and corporate environmental irresponsibility was more significant in non-state-owned enterprises. In addition, financial constraints and regulatory distance have a complementary effect on corporate environmental irresponsibility. These findings can reduce the environmental risks posed by enterprises and help them to avoid environmental irresponsibility.

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“…In recent years, the research topics on the relationship between geographical proximity and innovation also tend to be more diversified. Examples, new product development (Hong and Lee, 2020 ), green innovation (Hu et al, 2021 ), innovation model (Santner, 2018 ), innovation process (Tanner, 2018 ), innovation performance (Xiao et al, 2021 ), and contribution to innovation projects (Santamaria et al, 2021 ). Importantly, geography is not the only dimension.…”

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“… 1 Of course, proximity affects innovation through more than just knowledge sharing. Studies have shown that it can also drive innovation by passing on the pressure of environmental regulation (Hu et al, 2021 ). …”

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Spatio-temporal evolution and influencing factors of scientific and technological innovation level: A multidimensional proximity perspective

Yan

Jiang

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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Through a literature analysis, this study proposes that the difference between scientific innovation and technological innovation has been ignored in the current research on the level of scientific and technological innovation and its influencing factors. Combined with multidimensional proximity and knowledge type of current research, a theoretical induction has been carried on their corresponding relation with scientific innovation and technological innovation, research hypotheses were proposed the multidimensional proximity effect on the mode and degree of scientific innovation and technological innovation, five theoretical factors, which are the economic development level, regional economic structure, the level of opening to the outside world, science and technology input and education input, are proposed to affect the level of scientific innovation and technological innovation. In this study, the Yangtze River Delta region of China from 2001 to 2018 is selected as the research sample, and the two hypotheses proposed are tested through a mixed method of exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial panel econometric model. The main conclusions are as follows: i) As an exogenous variable, geographical proximity has a small impact on the level of scientific innovation, but a large impact on the level of technological innovation; ii) As endogenous variables, theoretical influencing factors may not play a significant role in the actual environment due to the complex influence of multidimensional proximity; iii) Based on the idea of improving multidimensional proximity and the actual situation of the region and the city, we can formulate policies conducive to improving the regional and urban innovation environment.

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Distance matters: Investigating how geographic proximity to ENGOs triggers green innovation of heavy-polluting firms in China

Cited by 38 publications

References 76 publications

Toward green innovation ecosystems: past research on green innovation and future opportunities from an ecosystem perspective

Toward green innovation ecosystems: past research on green innovation and future opportunities from an ecosystem perspective

Can Financial Constraints and Regulatory Distance Reduce Corporate Environmental Irresponsibility?

Spatio-temporal evolution and influencing factors of scientific and technological innovation level: A multidimensional proximity perspective

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