The Heterogeneous Effects of Formal and Informal Environmental Regulation on Green Technology Innovation—An Empirical Study of 284 Cities in China

Ren, Chuantang; Wang, Tao; Wang, Yue; Zhang, Yizhen; Wang, Luwei

doi:10.3390/ijerph20021621

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“…Although the "Porter hypothesis" may have been triggered, the driving force was not strong enough. Therefore, Porter incentivizes that the proposed 'compensation benefits' could not offset the 'cost losses' [26,43], nor could they lead to improvements in environmentally innovative firms. However, with the further improvement of ER, the government will strengthen the supervision of pollution prevention and control of enterprises, while the public has also participated in the supervision, increasing the consumption of green products [44].…”

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Exploring the Impact of Heterogeneous Environmental Regulations on Green Innovation Efficiency: Evidence from China’s Yangtze River Economic Belt

Xiong,

Gao

2023

Systems

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Enhancing environmental regulation (ER) is an effective way to improve the green innovation efficiency (GIE) of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) and the key to achieving the target of carbon peaking and neutrality. Using the data of 103 cities in YREB in 2013–2019, this paper explores the effect of heterogeneous ER on GIE. The results of the study are as follows: first, we categorize environmental regulations into formal and informal environmental regulations and explore their impact on green innovation efficiency separately. The results show that both formal and informal environmental regulations can effectively promote GIE in the YREB urban agglomeration. Second, the Spatial Durbin Model (SDM) model is used to analyze the spatial effect. The results show that there are spatial effects between heterogeneous environmental regulations and GIE, and environmental regulation can significantly strengthen GIE through positive spatial effects. Third, this paper uses the threshold model to explore the non-linear relationship between environmental regulation and green innovation efficiency. The results show that as ER increases, the positive effect on GIE increases, and this interesting finding holds for both formal and informal environmental regulations. Fourth, the mediating effect model is used to examine whether green technological innovation and industrial structure upgrading exert mediation effects on how environmental regulations affect GIE. The research results can provide effective policy recommendations to promote the green development of the cities in YREB.

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confidence: 99%

Exploring the Impact of Heterogeneous Environmental Regulations on Green Innovation Efficiency: Evidence from China’s Yangtze River Economic Belt

Xiong,

Gao

2023

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“…However, other studies have examined the impact of environmental regulation on GI from the perspectives of external knowledge and green absorptive capacity (Zhang et al, 2020). More recently, many research investigated the effect of environmental regulation on green substantive innovation together with strategic innovation (Ren et al, 2023; Wang, Liu, et al, 2022; Yu et al, 2023; Zhang et al, 2023), including spatial effects and general linear relations (Wang et al, 2023). Besides environmental regulation, external policies and financial instruments are also used as incentives for resource allocation to promote GI (Lu et al, 2021).…”

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Can business managerial capacity improve green innovation in different industries? Evidence from Chinese listed companies

Hao,

Wen,

Zhu

et al. 2023

Bus Strat Env

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As the backbone of the national innovation system, enterprises are the key drivers of economic development and environmental sustainability. However, at the microlevel, research in this area is lacking, as attention is paid on the comprehensive capabilities of top managers, industrial heterogeneity, and heterogeneous green innovation (GI), including inventive innovation and utility innovation. Based on Upper Echelons Theory, this paper constructs a research framework to explore and empirically analyze the specific impact of managerial capacity (MA) of top managers, as “gatekeepers” of enterprise decision‐making, on the heterogeneous enterprise GI, as well as its potential mechanism. Our results shows that (1), overall, MA can significantly promote GI of enterprises. Interestingly, compared with green strategic innovation, managerial capacity has a greater effect on green inventive innovation; (2) based on industrial heterogeneity, in heavy‐polluting industries, managerial capacity is more likely to promote green strategic innovation rather than green inventive innovation; (3) further analysis shows that enterprise value, internal control quality, and financing constraints are important mechanisms; and (4) the moderating effect of external environment shows that to some extent either the regional marketization level or management capabilities can drive GI. This paper has practical implications for policymakers and corporate managers adopting the management heterogeneity perspective and suggests areas for future studies in this field to promote green low‐carbon transition.

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“…Firms are subject to dual supervision of the government and the public under GEID. The strengthening of the environmental protection concept of stakeholders has increased the corporate cost of environmental default (Ren et al, 2023). Therefore, considering their own reputation and image, firms tend to increase R&D investment in green product innovation (Zeng et al, 2022) and promote the transformation of green technology innovation from "end management" to "source management" (Li et al, 2022).…”

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Government environmental information disclosure and corporate carbon performance

Peng,

Jin

et al. 2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Environmental problem is the key to the healthy development of China’s eco-economy, and the environmental responsibility of micro-enterprises under the vision of “Dual Carbon” has attracted more attention. Under the effect of formal environmental regulation, firms will improve their environmental performance by improving technology and resource utilization. As an informal environmental system, can government environmental information disclosure (GEID) guide firms to actively carry out green innovation, ultimately improve the carbon emission problem of firms, have a positive impact on the carbon performance of enterprises, and provide strong support to protect ecological environment? To address this question, this study used the Pollution Information Transparency Index (PITI) to measure GEID, and empirically tested the impact of GEID on corporate carbon performance using a sample of listed companies involved in China’s mining and manufacturing industries from 2013 to 2018. The study found that the higher the degree of GEID, the better was the corporate carbon performance. However, the improved public participation weakened the effect of GEID on corporate carbon performance. GEID reduced the carbon emission intensity of firms and improved their carbon performance via green innovation. Further research indicated that the enhanced GEID in state-owned enterprises significantly improved carbon performance of firms. This study provides empirical evidence for GEID to improve corporate carbon performance, and also proposes a policy strategy for the government to guide firms to undertake green innovation and promote firms to improve efficient carbon use.

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The Heterogeneous Effects of Formal and Informal Environmental Regulation on Green Technology Innovation—An Empirical Study of 284 Cities in China

Cited by 9 publications

References 64 publications

Exploring the Impact of Heterogeneous Environmental Regulations on Green Innovation Efficiency: Evidence from China’s Yangtze River Economic Belt

Exploring the Impact of Heterogeneous Environmental Regulations on Green Innovation Efficiency: Evidence from China’s Yangtze River Economic Belt

Can business managerial capacity improve green innovation in different industries? Evidence from Chinese listed companies

Government environmental information disclosure and corporate carbon performance

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