Understanding the Impact of Mandatory CSR Disclosure on Green Innovation: Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms

Ren, Shenggang; Huang, Ming‐Feng; Liu, Donghua; Yan, Ji

doi:10.1111/1467-8551.12609

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“…In this regard, if employees have a positive understanding of the CSR plans, they are more likely to engage in positive and supportive behaviours (De Roeck & Farooq, 2018; De Roeck & Maon, 2018; Su & Swanson, 2019; Vlachos et al, 2014). Implementation of social responsibility policies and programs will strengthen green innovative performance among companies (Ren et al, 2022). It can be said that if employees perceive their company's plans as environmentally friendly, the likelihood of positive environmental behaviours by employees also increases (Raineri & Paillé, 2016).…”

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Corporate social responsibility and green behaviour: Towards sustainablefood‐businessdevelopment

Shiri

Jafari‐Sadeghi

2022

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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Literature in the field of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has mainly focused on customers, particularly on their loyalty, behavioural intent and satisfaction. That is, the effectiveness of CSR dimensions has been less considered by scholars. Hence, this research strives to explore the effect of CSR dimensions on the green behaviour among employees of food businesses in Iran. In this vein, the mediating role of green trust and the moderating role of gender in the relationship between the CSR dimensions and the green behaviour of employees have been investigated. The samples of this research included 415 employees of food businesses and companies in Iran. The findings reveal that the CSR dimensions (economic CSR, ethical CSR and philanthropic CSR) directly and indirectly-through the mediating variable of green trustplayed an important role in shaping the green behaviour of employees. In this study, the direct and indirect effects of legal CSR on green behaviour among employees were not confirmed. Furthermore, the results represent that the gender variable moderates the effect of the CSR dimensions on the green behaviour of employees, highlighting that economic CSR and ethical CSR played a prominent role in shaping the green behaviour of respectively males and females. In addition, the theoretical and practical implications of the research discussed the impact of green behaviour on producing environmentally friendly products in order to sustainable development in the food business.environmental policy, gender analysis, green trust, sustainable behaviour | INTRODUCTIONResearch highlights that food businesses are a major reason for environmental pollution, reflecting that the industry complies with minimum environmental regulations (Rahim & Raman, 2015). Nowadays, due to the rapid growth of demand for food, companies in this industry must take action to diversify and increase the production of their products (Junsheng et al., 2020). Therefore, consuming high amounts of energy, also lead to the production and emission of large amounts of CO 2 gas (Karakaya & Özilgen, 2011). The industry also pollutes water and produces large amounts of solid waste, mostly in the form of packaging, by-products, and household waste that are left in the environment (Rahim & Raman, 2015). To solve this problem, food companies must take action to implement environmental management systems and apply approaches to respond to the adverse environmental impacts of food production (Jafari-Sadeghi, Sukumar, &

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Corporate social responsibility and green behaviour: Towards sustainablefood‐businessdevelopment

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Jafari‐Sadeghi

2022

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“…To test whether the impact of the pollution blacklisting on firm GI is independent of different measurement, similar to the approach in Ren et al (2022), we used patent citations as alternative dependent variable. Table 3 shows that our initial results are robust.…”

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Lessons from failure: Pollution blacklisting and firm's green innovation

Liu

2022

Sustainable Development

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This article investigates the impact of pollution blacklisting on firm green innovation (GI) by a unique information disclosure project from 782 Chinese listed firms in heavily polluting industries during 2015-2019. Our research found that pollution blacklisting establishes a poor environmental perception and puts firms under greater legitimacy pressure than their peers, forcing them to go beyond compliance through more substantial long-term solutions like GI to reestablish environmental legitimacy and win social support again. For firms with high levels of media coverage, the positive effect of pollution blacklisting on GI is strengthened, while for firms with bureaucratic political connections, the positive effect is weakened. The findings have important theoretical and practical implications for GI management and relevant information disclosure practice.

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“…We measured state ownership (denoted as SOE it ) by whether it is state-owned (Gao & Hafsi, 2015). SOE it equals to 1 if enterprise i in year t is state-owned, and 0 otherwise (Zhou et al, 2017;Ren et al, 2021;Ren et al, 2022).…”

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“…China, the biggest emerging economy, is facing a striking environmental challenge (Jiang et al, 2020;Wang & Jiang, 2021), despite tremendous effort toward fighting the same (Sun et al, 2019). Pro-environment enterprises have been appealing for a long time Ren et al, 2022), which is evidently positive for the society, and is also believed to bring enterprises both better performance and legitimacy (De Mendonca & Zhou, 2019;Pan et al, 2019;Li et al, 2021). Constructing corporate environmental proactivity has become an important issue, and efforts have been made to search for the drivers of environmental proactivity, including factors about society, economy, institutions, corporations, and individuals (Hörisch et al, 2017;Alzubaidi et al, 2021;Wang & Jiang, 2021).…”

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How top managers’ sport experience exploits environmental proactivity in state-owned enterprises.

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Front. Environ. Sci.

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Combining the perspectives of upper echelon theory and institutional theory, we investigate how top managers’ sport experience exploits corporate environmental proactivity in China and embed this question into state ownership. With the sample of Chinese listing enterprises from 2008 to 2018, we find that both sport experience and state ownership positively promote corporate environmental proactivity, while state ownership crowds out the promotion of top managers’ sport experience. Further analyses show that position and financial experience of top manager as well as corporate investing efficiency and location matter in these processes. Thus, we extend the understanding of how top managers’ sport experience and state ownership interact and influence corporate environmental proactivity. We, therefore, provide new instruments to promote corporate environmental proactivity and, respectively, extend upper echelon theory from the perspective of top managers’ sport experience as well as institutional theory from the perspective of state ownership.

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Understanding the Impact of Mandatory CSR Disclosure on Green Innovation: Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms

Cited by 101 publications

References 67 publications

Corporate social responsibility and green behaviour: Towards sustainablefood‐businessdevelopment

Corporate social responsibility and green behaviour: Towards sustainablefood‐businessdevelopment

Lessons from failure: Pollution blacklisting and firm's green innovation

How top managers’ sport experience exploits environmental proactivity in state-owned enterprises.

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