How should mining firms invest in the multidimensions of corporate social responsibility? Evidence from China

Do state subsidies increase corporate environmental spending?

“…In addition, environmental protection activities put firms in a position of competitive disadvantages compared to their competitors due to increased costs (Cheng et al, 2014). Subsequently, firms have to divert their resources away from these activities when they face a higher level of financial constraints (Peng et al, 2020).…”

Problems Of Pensioners And Other Residents Of The Russian Arctic Monotowns

“…It seems expedient to involve city-forming enterprises in solving the problems of single-industry towns more widely. Large foreign companies have this experience (Mejía, 2020;Peng et al, 2020). In Russia, large city-forming companies are socially responsible, annually disclosing information about the implemented social events.…”

Moving beyond economic criteria: Exploring the social impact of green innovation from the stakeholder management perspective

“…Similar to the content analysis, if the focal firm fulfills the requirements in a specific indicator, it will score 1 in this indicator and 0 otherwise. Referring to Peng et al (2020), the natural logarithm of the sum of items in the Employee, Product and Community dimensions measures the extent to which the focal firm improves the social welfare of stakeholders (SWS).…”

“…Along this line, the improvement of environmental quality caused by green innovation would be at the expense of the social welfare reduction of stakeholders. By contrast, the complementary view asserts that there exist synergies between green innovation activities and stakeholder engagement (García‐Piqueres & García‐Ramos, 2021), and firms could simultaneously invest in two types of activities to reap the potential synergistic effect (Peng et al, 2020). In this vein, green innovation not only helps tackle climate change and environmental degradation, but also improves the social welfare of stakeholders.…”