Does green industrial policy promote the sustainable growth of polluting firms? Evidences from China

Chen, Luyi; Zhou, Rong; Chang, Yue; Zhou, Yuan

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142927

Cited by 26 publications

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“…The “cradle-to-cradle” concept emerged, which advocated for a fundamental redesign of products and processes based on closed-loop system theory. China has been implementing CE as a strategy since the early 2000s with the objective to reduce waste and improve resource efficiency (Chen et al. , 2021).…”

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The challenges in adoption of circular economy in SMEs – a research agenda and way forward

Kondala

Nudurupati

Pappu

2023

BIJ

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PurposeThe circular economy (CE) represents an industry-wide transition from linear to circular processes. There has been a proliferation of literature on CE in the last decade. However, the existing studies on the adaption of CE in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are scarce. This study aims to develop a research agenda and the way forward for future researchers focusing on the adoption of CE.Design/methodology/approachThis article analyses the CE concepts through a Systematic Literature Review (SLR). Coding and content analysis are performed to generate emergent themes with the help of “Atlas.ti” software.FindingsThe authors uncovered the contemporary significance of adopting CE and the state-of-the-art literature on CE. The study's findings fall into four broad themes: Technical know-how, resource and process optimization, reverse practices and technology and innovation. Ten thought-provoking questions were identified in the four themes that researchers can explore further in embracing CE to achieve sustainability in SMEs.Practical implicationsThe study has highlighted the importance of CE adoption and CE's benefits to stakeholders across all three dimensions, i.e. social, economic and ecological. Practitioners can use the agenda in four themes to strengthen the practitioners' existing practices in SMEs to promote CE.Originality/valueThe study's uniqueness is the supply of current knowledge from diverse literature and practical consequences for SMEs. This study opens new lines of inquiry to adopt CE in SMEs, streamlining the existing literature into four themes to focus future research.

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Section: Narrative Literature and Findingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The challenges in adoption of circular economy in SMEs – a research agenda and way forward

Kondala

Nudurupati

Pappu

2023

BIJ

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“…The aim is to compensate the regulated firms and support their pursuits on GI and industrial upgrading. These policy tools often include financial subsidies [ 22 , 40 ], tax burden reliefs [ 21 ] and provisions of environmental infrastructure [ 19 , 44 ]. Two possible driving mechanisms are discussed here.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the one hand, firms have concerns about the free-rider problem due to the “positive externality of knowledge and environmental benefits.” This undermines their efforts in GI [ 12 ]. On the other hand, investing in GI and industrial upgrading is costly and risky because the returns are often uncertain [ 44 ]. By providing a variety of subsidies and tax refunds, local governments can internalize the double externalities and lower the risk of firms, which facilitates the realization of the Porter effects [ 18 ].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Can Environmental Regulation Promote Green Innovation and Productivity? The Moderating Role of Government Interventions in Urban China

Liang

Dong

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Can environmental regulation promote green innovation and the productivity of cities? The “Compliance Cost” (CC) perspective and the “Porter Hypothesis” (PH) offer contrasting views, whereas the existing empirical results are inconclusive. This paper aims to highlight the roles of multifaceted government interventions, including government-to-firm subsidies, tax levies on firms, and environmental infrastructure provisions, in moderating environmental regulation for realizing PH. Based on the fixed-effects models for Chinese prefecture cities from 2005–2013, we found that environmental regulation positively impacted green innovation but negatively affected productivity. The results of moderating effects suggest that environmental regulation can better promote green innovation if it is compounded with more government-to-firm subsidies, lower firm tax burdens, and increased environmental infrastructure provisions. We further decomposed the impacts of these interventions across seven fields of green innovation and found that subsidy and tax burden relief were especially effective in facilitating more GI in the sector of transportation and alternative energy production. This paper amplifies the theoretical framework of PH by accentuating the analytical lens of multifaceted government interventions but also provides insights into how local governments can effectively design “carrot-and-stick” policies to realize PH at the city level.

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“…Fortunately, China has been aware of the imbalance between rapid economic growth and environmental protection (Wu et al, 2018;Chen et al, 2021). The government has issued a series of policies to solve agricultural environmental problems, such as "The Opinions on Promoting Agricultural Green Development by Innovating Institutions and Mechanisms".…”

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Impact of environmental literacy on farmers’ agricultural green production behavior: Evidence from rural China

Liu

Yang

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Agricultural green production has been regarded as an effective way to solve the increasing level of agricultural environmental pollution and the frequent safety crises of agricultural products. As the main decision makers of agricultural production, farmers’ agricultural green production behavior directly determines the process of agricultural green development. However, few studies have explored farmers’ agricultural green production behavior from the perspective of environmental literacy, and the formation mechanism of farmers’ agricultural green production behavior is still unclear. This study aims to clarify the effect of environmental literacy on farmers’ agricultural green production behavior and its impact mechanism. Based on survey data from 830 farmers in China, this study constructs comprehensive index systems to evaluate farmers’ environmental literacy and agricultural green production behavior, and adopts multiple linear regression models and quantile regression model to explore the impact of environmental literacy on this behavior. Meanwhile, the mediation effect model is used to explore the mediation effect of agricultural green production cognition and agricultural green production willingness in the influence of environmental literacy on farmers’ agricultural green production behavior. Three conclusions arise. First, farmers’ environmental literacy and agricultural green production behavior are at the middle level, both of which should be strengthened. Second, environmental literacy has a significant positive impact on farmers’ agricultural green production behavior. Finally, environmental literacy influences farmers’ AGP behavior through the independent and chain mediation effects of AGP cognition and AGP willingness. Environmental literacy has heterogeneity impact on farmers’ agricultural green production behavior under different level of agricultural green production and external environment. This research not only provides theoretical support for the study of farmers’ agricultural green production behavior from the perspective of environmental literacy, it also provides a reference to the relevant government departments so that they can guide farmers to adopt more agricultural green production behavior.

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Does green industrial policy promote the sustainable growth of polluting firms? Evidences from China

Cited by 26 publications

References 53 publications

The challenges in adoption of circular economy in SMEs – a research agenda and way forward

The challenges in adoption of circular economy in SMEs – a research agenda and way forward

Can Environmental Regulation Promote Green Innovation and Productivity? The Moderating Role of Government Interventions in Urban China

Impact of environmental literacy on farmers’ agricultural green production behavior: Evidence from rural China

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