Green product development and environmental performance: Investigating the role of government regulations

Hafezi, Maryam; Zolfagharinia, Hossein

doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2018.08.012

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“…The government needs to intervene and regulate the policies and structure for environmental and green initiatives in business industries. It will persuade the attention of organizations to shape their strategies and manage the resources in a way to reduce the costs of total environmental performance (Hafezi & Zolfagharinia, 2018). An inappropriate amount of subsidies by the government causes insufficient resources allocation that results in a low level of contributions to sustainable development (Kung et al, 2016).…”

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The Nexus of Government Incentives and Sustainable Development Goals: Is the Management of Resources the Solution to Non-Profit Organisations?

Anwar

Khattak

Popp

et al. 2020

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have become the main priority across the globe due to their significant role in economic growth and propensity. However, in particular, it is not yet known how governments can achieve SDGs through non-profit organisations (NPOs) by providing financial and non-financial incentives. The present study included 263 Pakistan NPOs in a primary survey using a questionnaire. The results obtained from the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) highlight that: (i) government incentives do not directly influence community development; (ii) The government non-financial incentives have a significant direct effect on environmental activities to reduce pollution, energy consumption and waste; (iii) Resource management fully mediates the paths between government incentives and community development while partially mediates environmental activities; and finally, (iv) resource management has a favourable influence both on the goals of community development and environmental activities. This research paper contributes to the knowledge in that government incentives do not have a direct influence on social development, but has an indirect influence through efficient management. Recommendations are that government and public bodies need to support NPOs to engage actively in philanthropic activities. Similarly, NPOs should efficiently utilize and manage the resources to benefit the maximum number of poor and needy individuals.

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Section: Government Incentives Resources Management and Sdgsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Nexus of Government Incentives and Sustainable Development Goals: Is the Management of Resources the Solution to Non-Profit Organisations?

Anwar

Khattak

Popp

et al. 2020

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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“…For example, Chang et al found that China’s new energy efficiency publicity system can significantly improve the environmental performance of enterprises [ 28 ]. Hafezi et al suggested that the government should adopt appropriate regulatory systems to restrict corporate behavior and avoid situations where environmental performance is sacrificed for profit maximization goals [ 29 ]. Research by Zhang et al showed that during the selection period of the National Civilized City Awards, civilized city enterprises performed better in terms of environmental performance, especially among state-owned enterprises [ 30 ].…”

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Corporate Environmental Performance in China: The Moderating Effects of the Media versus the Approach of Local Governments

Guo

2020

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This article selects the listed companies in China’s A-share heavy pollution industry from 2014 to 2018 as samples, uses a random effect model to empirically test the relationship between media attention and corporate environmental performance and examines the impacts of local government environmental protection and property nature on that relationship. Results are as follow: (1) Media attention can significantly affect a company’s environmental performance. The higher the media attention, the greater the company’s supervision and the better its environmental performance. (2) In areas where the government pays less attention to environmental protection, the impact of media on corporate environmental performance is more obvious, but in other areas, the impact of media on environmental performance cannot be reflected; (3) The media attention is very significant for the environmental performance improvement of state-owned enterprises, and it is not obvious in non-state-owned enterprises. (4) A further breakdown of the study found that the role of media attention in corporate environmental performance is only significant in the sample of local governments that have low environmental protection and are state-owned enterprises. This research incorporates the local government’s emphasis on environmental protection into the research field of vision, expands the research scope of media and corporate environmental performance, and also provides new clues and evidence for promoting the active fulfillment of environmental protection responsibilities by companies and local governments.

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“…Wu et al [19] found that direct government supervision has a negative impact on heterogeneous innovation investment. Moreover, under some conditions, strict regulations could cause firms to be reluctant to innovate and to produce a single standard product rather than distinct products for different market segments [20]. Generally speaking, the dampened enthusiasm of enterprises for innovation would lead to slowing technological progress, hindering productivity growth, which is not conducive to reducing pollution emissions, thus negatively affecting the efficiency of the green economy.…”

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The Relationship between Environmental Regulations and Green Economic Efficiency: A Study Based on the Provinces in China

Luo

Wang

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This study examined the relationship between environmental regulations (ER) and green economic efficiency (GEE) based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2008 to 2017. Firstly, GEE was calculated and evaluated using the super-efficiency SBM model with undesirable outputs. Secondly, the impact of ER on GEE was studied with the Tobit model. Finally, this article draws conclusions based on the above analysis and offers some suggestions for government and enterprise. The results show that the GEE of China is generally low. The GEE of the eastern region is much higher than that of the middle and western regions, with the western region performing slightly better than the middle. From west to east, there is a V shape, with high efficiency in the west and east and low efficiency in the middle. The impact of ER on GEE has the characteristics of nonlinearity and spatial heterogeneity. At the national level, as well as in the middle and western regions, the impact of ER on GEE shows an inverted U shape that first rises and then falls. ER are currently within the range conducive to the development of GEE. If the intensity of ER exceeds the critical value, they will have a negative impact on GEE. In the eastern region, the impact of ER on GEE is shown as a U shape that first falls and then rises. At present, the ER are not of sufficient intensity to contribute to the improvement of GEE. Only when the intensity of the ER exceeds the critical value will they have a positive influence on the GEE.

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Green product development and environmental performance: Investigating the role of government regulations

Cited by 112 publications

References 43 publications

The Nexus of Government Incentives and Sustainable Development Goals: Is the Management of Resources the Solution to Non-Profit Organisations?

The Nexus of Government Incentives and Sustainable Development Goals: Is the Management of Resources the Solution to Non-Profit Organisations?

Corporate Environmental Performance in China: The Moderating Effects of the Media versus the Approach of Local Governments

The Relationship between Environmental Regulations and Green Economic Efficiency: A Study Based on the Provinces in China

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