Sustainability standard setting as local government matter: an Italian experience

Pepe, Francesca; Paternostro, Sergio; Monfardini, Patrizio

doi:10.1080/14719037.2017.1293144

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“…Most countries stimulate innovation motivations and encourage their enterprises to invest in R&D through government subsidies. This paper represents one of the first attempts to estimate the effects of government subsidies for R&D on N/IS-setting, which is critical to sustainable development [3,4], and further examines how state ownership, position in industry, and intellectual property owned by companies influence the effect of government subsidies for R&D.…”

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“…N/IS concerning energy efficiency and environmental protection are keys to sustainable development [1, 3,4] and have proliferated in the past 20 years, both nationally and internationally [5,37]. One example is the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), which is designed to prevent further degradation of air quality.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In particular, setting national/industry standards (N/IS) is considered to be one of the most important factors for enhancing enterprises' energy-saving and environmental protection activities in developing countries [1,2]. Adapting and implementing environmentally friendly N/IS would relieve pressure on environmentally sensitive resources and capture sustainable development [3,4]. This has provided a strong signal to policy decision-makers to endorse standard-enhancing R&D policy for sustainable development.…”

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Do Government R&D Subsidies Cultivate Enterprises’ Voluntary National/Industry Standard-Setting for Sustainable Development?

Zhang

Shao

2019

Sustainability

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This study investigates the effects of government subsidies for R&D on resource and environmental enterprises’ voluntary national/industry standard- (N/IS-) setting, which is critical to sustainable development. Based on innovation motivation and capability theory, we propose a research framework and hypothesis, using a panel dataset on 11,556 Chinese resource and environmental enterprises from 2011 to 2013 to test our hypotheses. We find that government subsidies for R&D have a U-shaped relationship with N/IS-setting for sustainable development. Moreover, we also find that state ownership, position in industry, and patent properties are contingency factors suggesting that non-state-owned enterprises, industry-following enterprises, or enterprises with more patents come up with N/IS-settings of significantly greater value than state-owned enterprises, leading enterprises, or enterprises with fewer patents. Endogeneity issues are addressed by utilizing two-stage estimations with instrumental variables (IVs).

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Do Government R&D Subsidies Cultivate Enterprises’ Voluntary National/Industry Standard-Setting for Sustainable Development?

Zhang

Shao

2019

Sustainability

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“…Prior studies have evaluated the regulation of CSR reporting in the public sector context using legitimacy and signalling theory (Kansal, Joshi, Babu, & Sharma, 2018;Lodhia, Jacobs, & Park, 2012;Pepe, Paternostro, & Monfardini, 2018). Despite the many existing studies, some issues have not yet been addressed, which motivates this research on the Indian SOEs.…”

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Is the Indian corporate social responsibility law working for the public sector?

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Kansal

Joshi

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Public Money & Management

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This study investigates the perspectives of the regulators and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) called central public sector enterprises in India towards the new corporate social responsibility law. The findings indicate that SOEs welcome the regulation, but face implementation issues and political pressures. Regulators believe that companies are making excuses, such as limited resources for implementation and lack of direct contact with communities. We argue that more effective dialogue is required between regulators and SOEs to ensure effective implementation of the new Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) regulation to attain India's social development agenda.

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“…To strengthen the poor's (such as farmers) subjective initiative in increasing their income, governments, non-governmental organizations, and social enterprises offer tools, financing, and channels to improve agricultural production levels [5,6]. In general, these financial instruments are implemented directly (such as direct purchasing) or indirectly (such as taxes, subsidies, and regulations) [7].…”

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Strategies for poverty alleviation supply chain with government subsidies and misreporting behavior in China

Deng

2021

PLoS ONE

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In the poverty alleviation supply chain, subsidies for enterprises or farmers are widely implemented as part of government policy. However, subsidy fraud often occurs, such as misreporting cost information to secure subsidies. Inspired by this, our study aims to explore the optimal decision-making problem of the three-level (government + enterprises + farmers) poverty alleviation supply chain under asymmetric cost information. Four-stage models are constructed to capture the interactions among these three players. Additionally, numerical examples are used to analyze the implications of key parameters, such as cost coefficient and punitive measures coefficient, on supply chain members’ optimal decision and profit. Our findings demonstrate that both the enterprise and the farmer can obtain maximum profit from the misreporting behavior. Unfortunately, this behavior always damages the profit of other participants and weakens the efficiency of subsidy policy. Moreover, to mitigate the negative implication of misreporting behavior, the government can establish punitive measures to curtail misreporting. Our work provides important policy implications for governments and enterprises. To ensure that more consumers have access to poverty alleviation products, government organizations should prioritize such projects. In addition, the provision of public facilities and technical guidance should be more effective and prompt to share enterprises’ and farmers’ costs. We further recommend that subsidy policies be formulated according to recipients’ performance in poverty alleviation projects, with corresponding supervision and punitive measures. Finally, in cooperating with farmers in poverty alleviation, enterprises should maximize their interests and reduce costs through technological innovation and channel sharing.

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Sustainability standard setting as local government matter: an Italian experience

Cited by 13 publications

References 30 publications

Do Government R&D Subsidies Cultivate Enterprises’ Voluntary National/Industry Standard-Setting for Sustainable Development?

Do Government R&D Subsidies Cultivate Enterprises’ Voluntary National/Industry Standard-Setting for Sustainable Development?

Is the Indian corporate social responsibility law working for the public sector?

Strategies for poverty alleviation supply chain with government subsidies and misreporting behavior in China

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