Factors that influence corporate environmental behavior: empirical analysis based on panel data in China

He, Zhengxia; Xu, Shichun; Shen, Wenxing; Long, Ruyin; Chen, Hong

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.05.164

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“…Regarding the puzzle of some other empirical studies that fail to prove the effectiveness of public participation in environmental governance [41,[44][45][46], this paper also provides relevant explanations. Firstly, due to the heterogeneous effects on environmental governance between back-end governance and front-end governance, we argue that taking different types of public participation as a whole, while neglecting their differences, may be an important reason for this inconformity.…”

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“…Wang and Di [45] carried out a survey covering 85 townships and interviews with 151 township leaders in China, whose statistical results showed that no significant improvement was seen in environmental quality with the involvement of public participation. He et al [46] used panel data in China to test the relationships between external pressures and corporate environmental behaviors, but the results did not confirm that social pressure was a statistically significant source of environmental improvement. Fung [41] evaluated the three potential values of public participation to advance democratic governance (i.e., effectiveness, legitimacy, and social justice).…”

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The Role of Public Participation in Environmental Governance: Empirical Evidence from China

Guo¹,

Bai²

2019

Sustainability

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As an essential stakeholder of environmental resources, the public has become the third force which assists in promoting environmental governance, together with local governments and polluting enterprises. In this paper, we construct a mediation model and a 2SLS (Two Stage Least Square) model to illustrate the role of public participation based on inter-provincial panel data of China from 2011 to 2015. The results indicate that the advantages of handling informational asymmetry and enhancing social supervision are the two logical starting points of involving public participation in environmental governance. As the public has no executive power, they can participate in environmental governance in an indirect way by lobbying local governments' environmental enforcement of polluting enterprises. In addition, their deterrent of polluting enterprises can also generate effects similar to local governments' environmental enforcement, and such a deterrent will help promote environmental governance directly. At the present time in China, the effects of public participation in environmental governance are mainly reflected in the form of back-end governance, while the effects of front-end governance are not remarkable enough. This research is of great significance in perfecting China's environmental governance system by means of arousing and expanding the public's rights to participate in environmental governance.

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The Role of Public Participation in Environmental Governance: Empirical Evidence from China

Guo¹,

Bai²

2019

Sustainability

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“…The rigorousness of the regulations and firms' perceptions of the stringency of the regulations compels companies to actually implement environmental protection practices (Guoyou et al, 2013;Zailani et al, 2015). Moreover, the government's support and enforcement of the regulations has a significant impact on companies' environmental policies and adoption of green strategies (Singh et al, 2014;He et al, 2016), making this an important task to investigate.…”

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Green Manufacturing in Agro Processing SMEs: Unraveling the Relationship Between Drivers and Their Effects on Adoption Practices in Ghana

Gyasi-Mensah

Hu²

2019

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Environmental matters have been a subject of importance for national policy makers, ecology concerned groups and organizations. Green initiatives such as, green manufacturing has been seen to be a game changer in ensuring environmentally safe manufacturing by firms and nations while reaping the accompanying benefits. Investigations into motivating factors are still not fully carried out from all contexts. This research sought to find the effects that these drivers have on adoption of eco-friendly initiatives among small and medium enterprises from a developing country context. Structural Equation Model was adopted to analyze the data and verify the hypotheses. The outcomes indicate that financial and business benefits, competitor pressure and national environmental regulations positively influenced the adoption of green manufacturing adoption initiatives. Management and staff commitment influenced adoption slightly. These outcomes are vital to developing strategies for improving green practices implementation within firms for positive environmental and economic performance. Governments in developing nations especially Ghana will be well informed on which parts of the regulations to strengthen and enforce for improved environmental responsibility from Ghanaian agro processing small and medium enterprises and other businesses.

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“…Additionally, the results showed that waste-sorting behavior was significantly and positively correlated with the individual preference framework and its dimensions, as well as with the group preference framework and its dimensions. This suggests that individuals' waste-sorting behavior is influenced not only by their comfort preference [20], but also by environmental pressure, such as social norms [52], government regulation [53], and the notion of an "Exemplary Role" [25].…”

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Individual Preference Framework or Group Preference Framework? Which Will Regulate the Impact Path of Product Facilities on Residents’ Waste-Sorting Behavior Better

Chen

Wang

Hou

2020

IJERPH

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To effectively deal with the waste management problems faced by cities, it is of great significance to promote the sorting and recycling of municipal solid waste. Given the correlation between individual behavior and psychological preferences and external situations, this study explored the mechanism of individual preference framework and group preference framework in the impact path of product facilities on residents’ waste-sorting behavior. Based on a questionnaire survey (N = 1505), combined with correlation analysis, difference analysis, hierarchical regression analysis, sensitivity analysis, and other methods, the study found that differences in residents’ age, education background, and monthly income lead to differences in residents’ sorting behaviors, and individuals of young age and low monthly income have higher sorting behaviors than others. Interestingly, highly educated individuals did not show high sorting behavior. Both individual preference and group preference frameworks play a regulating role in the influence path of product facilities on waste-sorting behavior, but a group preference framework (including family preference, organizational preference and social preference) plays the more significant regulating role. Additionally, social preference variables are the most prominent regulatory factors and have a greater “amplifier” effect in the impact of product facilities on waste-sorting behavior. Based on these findings, this study identifies the corresponding policy implications.

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Factors that influence corporate environmental behavior: empirical analysis based on panel data in China

Cited by 63 publications

References 75 publications

The Role of Public Participation in Environmental Governance: Empirical Evidence from China

The Role of Public Participation in Environmental Governance: Empirical Evidence from China

Green Manufacturing in Agro Processing SMEs: Unraveling the Relationship Between Drivers and Their Effects on Adoption Practices in Ghana

Individual Preference Framework or Group Preference Framework? Which Will Regulate the Impact Path of Product Facilities on Residents’ Waste-Sorting Behavior Better

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