Institutional Pressures and Corporate Green
Innovation; Empirical Evidence from Chinese
Manufacturing Enterprises

Ning, Shengnan; Jie, Xiaowen; Li, Xiaoping

doi:10.15244/pjoes/139926

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“…First, two environment regulations were found to positively affect the sustainable development performance of enterprises. This result supports Porter's hypothesis that institutional pressures facilitate rather than inhibit corporate green innovation and sustainable development [75]. Meanwhile, this study also found that market-incentive environmental regulation has more influence on sustainable development than commandcontrol environmental regulation.…”

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confidence: 86%

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Factors Affecting Manufacturing Enterprises’ Sustainable Development Performance – Based on the fsQCA Method

Xing¹,

Chen²,

Yang³

et al. 2022

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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In the face of huge pressure of resources and the environment, sustainable development is a certain way to effectively improve resource utilization and enhance the competitiveness of enterprises themselves. Based on a synergistic evolutionary perspective, this study selected 289 Chinese manufacturing enterprises as samples, tried to analyze the configuration effects of environmental regulation, green dynamic capability, slack resources and sustainable dual innovations with fsQCA method, so as to reveal the multiple concurrency mechanisms affecting the sustainable development performance of manufacturing enterprises. The study concludes that: no single factor is a prerequisite for sustainable development performance; the paths to high levels of sustainable development performance can be divided into two development models, namely incentive-capability-innovationoriented and resource-innovation-oriented; there are various ways to improve sustainable development performance in different given situations. The findings of the study enriched the factors that affect how well manufacturing enterprises perform in terms of sustainable development, and explore internal and external synergistic mechanisms for doing so from a histological perspective, advancing the study of manufacturing enterprises' sustainable development under the severe resource environments.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

“…Any single factor is not enough for enterprises to improve their sustainable development performance. The net effect of any factor on sustainable development performance is only valid under certain circumstances [75]. In fact, sustainable development performance is the equivalent result of the joint action of multiple factors.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors Affecting Manufacturing Enterprises’ Sustainable Development Performance – Based on the fsQCA Method

Xing¹,

Chen²,

Yang³

et al. 2022

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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“…However, green innovation was also found to have no connection with EU-ETS (Lofgren et al 2014 ). In the case of the CN-ETS, authors also found similar inconclusive findings, for instance, positive (Ning et al 2022 ; Zhu et al 2019a ), negative (Chen et al 2022 ; Zhang et al 2019b ), mixed or inverted-U and U-shaped (Peneder et al 2022 ; Song et al 2020 ; Zhang et al 2022a ; Zhuge et al 2020 ), no effect or not significant (Shen et al 2020b ; Wu and Lin 2022 ). Thus, the impact of ETSs on green innovation remains inconclusive and varies in terms of geographical and sectoral heterogeneity.…”

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confidence: 73%

“…Some recent studies investigated the ‘weak’ version of the Porter Hypothesis (PH) and show that market-based instruments influence firms’ green innovation (Chen et al 2021 ; Fang et al 2021 ; Hu et al 2021 ; Lyu et al 2020 ; Ning et al 2022 ; Ren et al 2020 ; Wei et al 2021 ). However, the findings related to the PH remain inconclusive; although most works found supportive evidence of the PH, Chen et al ( 2021 ) did not find corroborating evidence of the PH in the Chinese listed enterprises.…”

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Does the US regional greenhouse gas initiative affect green innovation?

Rahman

Ahmad

Ismail

2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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This study measures the impact of the implementation of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) on firms’ green innovation initiatives. We used 20 years of panel data from the Fortune 500 list of the US largest companies. Based on DID, a benchmark regression, the RGGI has a significant adverse effect on the green innovation of Fortune 500 companies, and we verified these findings with multiple robustness tests. As we investigate how energy-intensive industries were affected by RGGI, we found that it slowed down green innovation, but it was not statistically significant. This study provides a novel perspective on how the RGGI influences green innovation in firms and how different types of sectors respond to the policy. The findings indicate that the “weak” Porter Hypothesis has not been confirmed in the present carbon trading market (particularly the RGGI) for Fortune 500 firms in the USA. In terms of policy, we believe that a well-covered and differentiated legislation that fosters green innovation while being realistic about the policy’s goal and the firm’s environmental attitude, like emissions reduction through green innovation, is essential. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11356-022-23189-0.

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“…In general, most existing studies have been based on the perspective of economics and found that external pressures and internal driving forces motivate firms to attach importance to green innovation. In terms of external pressures, scholars-mostly based on institutional theory-have identified regulatory pressure, normative pressure, and mimetic pressure as the factors influencing firms to engage in green innovation (Ning et al, 2022). Regulatory pressure primarily comes from government departments.…”

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Green innovation peer effects in common institutional ownership networks

Feng

2022

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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As an important breakthrough in coordinating economic, social, and ecological benefits, green innovation has received wide attention from governments, firms, and the public. However, existing studies mainly explored the economic factors influencing firms' green innovation while neglecting social factors. This study took common institutional ownership as the research perspective to explore whether firms' green innovation decisions are affected by their peers. Using a sample of Chinese A-share listed firms from 2003 to 2019, this paper found that firms imitate their peers' green innovation in common institutional ownership networks and exhibit green innovation peer effects. Mechanism testing revealed that "voting with hands" through common institutional ownership helps firms obtain green innovation information (informationbased imitation), while "voting with feet" through common institutional ownership helps firms maintain a competitive awareness of green innovation (rivalry-based imitation), thereby contributing to green innovation peer effects in common institutional ownership networks. Heterogeneity analysis showed that firms with greater financing constraints and lower levels of risk-taking are more likely to imitate their peers' green innovation. Moreover, firms only regard peers with similar industry status and identical property rights as imitation targets in common institutional ownership networks, thereby following "the imitation law of closer preference." An analysis of economic consequences revealed that green innovation peer effects in common institutional ownership networks are not strategic behaviors of "quantity over quality," with imitation contributing to improving firm value. This paper enriches existing research on the influencing factors of green innovation and provides a new reference for promoting sustainable development.

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Institutional Pressures and Corporate Green Innovation; Empirical Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Enterprises

Cited by 16 publications

References 33 publications

Factors Affecting Manufacturing Enterprises’ Sustainable Development Performance – Based on the fsQCA Method

Factors Affecting Manufacturing Enterprises’ Sustainable Development Performance – Based on the fsQCA Method

Does the US regional greenhouse gas initiative affect green innovation?

Green innovation peer effects in common institutional ownership networks

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